Unfortunately, there is a very solid explanation for it and it doesn't yield a good prognosis:
1. There is a small minority of people who truly believed in it in the first place.
2. Then there are people who exploit the system by charging hefty sums for diversity trainings (and calling any opponents to such spending racist).
3. Then there are people who sold the #2 group the student loans and gave the degrees where all you need to graduate is to repeat a fairly basic set of dogmas.
4. There are people who are disillusioned about the whole thing, but are now stuck with the student loans and no other way to make comparable money.
5. There are entrepreneurial people that want to make a change, but since most business niches are occupied by the corporations, the only outlet they have found is to join the diversity & inclusion effort.
6. There are people that want to get rid of their competitors. And since being not inclusive enough is now a firable offense, they are stuck competing who can say more things they don't really believe in.
Ironically, it reminds me of the political situation in Russia, where many people support the war despite suffering economically from it, despite having their children slaughtered, despite losing the rest of civil freedoms in the past months. The mechanism is the same: if you don't play along with the narrative, the competition will eat you alive. And it you overplay it in a clever way, you can get a promotion or a government contract.
I wish sociologists actually studied such phenomena rather than being another echo chamber for the same narrative as everyone else.
1. There is a small minority of people who truly believed in it in the first place.
2. Then there are people who exploit the system by charging hefty sums for diversity trainings (and calling any opponents to such spending racist).
3. Then there are people who sold the #2 group the student loans and gave the degrees where all you need to graduate is to repeat a fairly basic set of dogmas.
4. There are people who are disillusioned about the whole thing, but are now stuck with the student loans and no other way to make comparable money.
5. There are entrepreneurial people that want to make a change, but since most business niches are occupied by the corporations, the only outlet they have found is to join the diversity & inclusion effort.
6. There are people that want to get rid of their competitors. And since being not inclusive enough is now a firable offense, they are stuck competing who can say more things they don't really believe in.
Ironically, it reminds me of the political situation in Russia, where many people support the war despite suffering economically from it, despite having their children slaughtered, despite losing the rest of civil freedoms in the past months. The mechanism is the same: if you don't play along with the narrative, the competition will eat you alive. And it you overplay it in a clever way, you can get a promotion or a government contract.
I wish sociologists actually studied such phenomena rather than being another echo chamber for the same narrative as everyone else.