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Corporate DEI Meetings and Performative Land Acknowledgments
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436 · #436
4 min
Tim recounts absurd corporate diversity meetings and mocks the ritual of land acknowledgments in Canada and Australia as hollow, performative gestures that satisfy no one.
- Tim describes corporate DEI meetings where employees are asked to confess the last time they were racist in front of colleagues.
- A tiki bar show producer called for a moment of silence for Asian hate before reviewing backyard bars.
- Tim on mandatory land acknowledgments in Canada and Australia, where venues recite acknowledgments to Indigenous peoples before proceeding.
- Tim notes that acknowledging stolen land is the bare minimum, yet it's treated as sufficient action.
- Alternative to land acknowledgments would be actually returning money, but that funds six-figure salaries studying problems without solving them.
- Land acknowledgments function like saying grace before a meal—a ritual performed before moving on with business as usual.
- Tim predicts performative DEI measures will fade under the new administration as culture moves quickly and people tire of pretending.
- His vision is returning to 1990s individualism where people are complex, the world is complex, and you don't police others' opinions.
- Collective politics has become uninteresting because everyone treats your business as their business and demands compliance with their ideology.