The interesting part:

France has not traditionally been a place where DEI programmes have taken root because of legal limitations on the collection of racial and ethnic data. Employers are not allowed to factor people’s origins into hiring or promotion decisions.

In France, you cannot really base any official decision on the origin of someone, even just using the concept of race is considered racist and against the law. This is due to the trauma of Vichy's regime Nazi collaboration but also the popularization of the idea that there is no scientific evidence for human races in the current human population by the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

My parents fled a socialist country many decades ago. I grew up listening to my father drone on and on about how bad Socialism is. He still doesn’t understand that there's a difference between socialism and totalitarianism, but following political developments of the last decade or so I am often reminded of his sermons.

One detail was: what happens when you hire people not based on qualifications but loyalty. You get stupid people in positions of power, happy to wield it for its own sake. Often with a penchant for cruelty and a vague feeling of revenge (against “the bourgeousie” then, against “woke globalists” now). And it always ends the same: you have to dilute milk with water and lie about it. This is where the US are headed now, folks. Stalinism, the burgeoning 3rd Reich, take your pick.

I'm remembering what always happens when US companies try to run US labour practices in Europe.

It's hilarious

"If you don't play by our rules you can't do business with us!"

They just keep shooting themselves in both feet. As if a tariff war wasn't enough.

France replies to trump with "we wave our genitalia in your general direction."

Lmao inagine fucking yourself this hard. That means all global suppliers to the US will have to stop dealing with them. They will run out of brains and resources so fucking fast.

According to Les Échos, the letter concluded: “If you do not agree to sign this document, we would be grateful if you could kindly provide us with detailed reasons, which we will forward to our legal department.”

God this is so childish. This just isn't how grown ups go about disagreeing about things.

The French government will have to intervene because I don't think corporations are gonna be willing to put up a fight on their own.

I’ll kindly provide you detailed reasons to suck my balls!

Which means what Jimmy? What the fuck does this mean!?!!?

I think they spelled anti-diversity disorder wrong.

I think the issue is not about applying DEI in French companies, nor it exist. The problem is a foreigner leader telling an independent country how he should manage his companies, or at least, to foreign companies how they should hire people. You can't be a libertarian from one side and tell such things... until you want to fire every human and make every company in the world running with Musk AI and robots ...

Government so small it can fit inside your office.