Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.
Can someone explain DEI and Affirmative action? 99% sure the right is using it wrong, but I live in a red state.
DEI is a catch-all term. It could be part of a marketing strategy, or it could be part of company culture. It’s generally bullshit virtue signalling in the case of retailers like Target. It’s good to have feedback and ideas from different cultures especially in a global marketplace. It includes both people of different races and culture like LGBTQ.
Affirmative action was policies of hiring a certain percentage of poc or women and ignoring white candidates with higher qualifications. It was an attempt to make up for systemic oppression. Places like colleges still try to balance student numbers by race, even limiting races like Asians because they would be over represented.