Commentary
I recently attended an online seminar put on by the world’s preeminent society for computer scientists, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), titled, “Language Matters: DEI and the Question of URM.”
DEI stands for “diversity, equity, inclusion,” and comprises an entire department in most corporations that oversees the hiring of more minority employees and makes sure they are treated “equally.” The term URM stands for either “underrepresented minorities” or “underserved minorities.” The speakers themselves were vague about what the term stood for, but they all said that the term was racist. Actually, the speakers seemed to label everything racist and resulting from “white supremacy.” Interestingly, they both used the term unsparingly throughout the one-hour talk despite having declared it racist.
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