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While Mexico Progresses

by ZihuaRob ⌂ @, Zihuatanejo, México, Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 18:32 (619 days ago) @ Sunlight Dancer

I noticed that you don't mention your own experience to back up the rhetoric.
Perhaps mine will help.

I recently retired from a global corporation with HQ in the USA. "Woke proselytizing" is a complete fiction in the real world where the rest of us live.

"DEI" for me as a woman in a male-heavy workplace meant that my work stood on its own merits and I was extremely good at my job. I kept my head down, outworked most of my colleagues and advanced.

One observation that stayed with me is that only white male colleagues could get away with emotional displays such as your comments demonstrate. In a way I envy you because I could not afford to be pegged as "emotional"

I hear you! What gets me is what some Statesiders are complaining about is precisely the direction Mexico is going in. Our president is no DEI hire. No product of "wokeness". Neither was Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's president in 1829, a Black man, or Benito Juárez, president in 1858, an Indigenous man. But we are requiring our legislatures and elected bodies to be as close to 50% men and women as possible. Our government and our society is moving forward, becoming more tolerant, more inclusive, righting old wrongs, while the USA appears to be going backwards full speed ahead. Watching that woman get manhandled and hogtied by 3 goons in a town hall the other day while all the ball-less men stood by and did nothing was shameful, and speaks volumes about what is wrong in U.S. society. And it at ain't the drag queens, sister!


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