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Ah yes I remember all the polls saying “Meta’s hiring policies” were in the top 1,303,886 issues voters cared about

That might’ve drove a few people to donate huge sums of money to information campaigns that fomented hatred, division, and distrust among voters, but no: American voters were not voting on big tech DEI policies.

Feel free to post evidence otherwise.



DEI was a major Republican talking point. This is a thing well beyond Big Tech, like in other industries and in college admissions.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/there-are-a-...

White voters point to conversations about justice – for racial minorities, for the children of immigrants, for women worried about losing their reproductive rights, for transgender teenagers – and question why nobody ever talks about justice for them.

Few expect Trump to fix everything or believe him when he says he will. What they do believe is that the system is broken and corrupt, just as Trump says it is, and that a candidate who promises to tear it down and start again might just be on to something.

I think this goes in this direction. People don't care about "Meta's hiring policies" but they care about "wokeness", and news articles about the former lead to a perception that society has way too much of the latter and that it's a bad thing.




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