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That is a very insightful comment and I thank you for sharing it with us all - and it bears repeating:

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are a set of moral ideas meant to improve human well-being and harmony.

Therefore, to be opposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion would imply that one is not driven by a desire for human well-being.

I will remember this. Thank you. (Nice username!)

It's also useful to ask "if you don't support DEI, is it diversity, equity or inclusion you have an issue with?"

Should certain people or certain kinds of people be excluded? Is that why inclusion is bad?

What's bad about equity? Should things be inequitable? Should certain people get preferential treatment? If so, which people and why?

Or, is it diversity that's the problem? Is uniformness important? Is it so important that it's reasonable to exclude people who don't come from the right backgrounds or don't look a certain way?

TIL Equity isn't always regarding to money. I thought the E in DEI stood for equality until now.

In the case of the EU however as well as a bunch of European countries, DEI is literally part of the constitution. But hey, Dump and his team would need to inform themselves on other countries to know that

It's not even the worst ideologically driven madness Pushed on foreign nations. The George W. Bush administration used aid programs to coerce African nations to focus on faith based birth control initiatives (such as abstinence) during the HIV epidemic leading to absolutely massive numbers of infected across the continent.

I wish EU's response was, that all US conpanies dealing with any government business in EU must comply to EU DEI rules

or even "we regret your cultural requirements will prevent many business opportunities and hope you can find suitable replacement goods and services. We thank you for decades of mutually-beneficial trade and look forward to opportunities in the future." ?

No argument from this US Citizen.

They should answer with the poo emoji and that's it

Suing won't have any effect as the US can simply refuse to follow the rules. There is a simpler way: don't do business with them. Let them find the hard way that the world can and will go on without them but they can't go on without the world.

He doesn't have a goal, he acts purely on emotion. He's an overgrown child throwing a decades-long temper tantrum.

His end goal is to become a dictator like Putin and turn us into serfs for the oligarchs while destroying the economy so his friends can buy everything up. Alternatively, he’s just doing whatever his pals tell him to do while he pisses away tax payer money in Florida.

Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is.

I interpret it as some combination of staying out of prison, getting richer, serving the demands of those who have blackmail on him and self aggrandization.

His end goal is to increase his wealth, status, and power as well as punishing those who dare to disagree or make him feel smaller.

Nah. What he wants is bossing others around and taking revenge on people and things that bothered him, or going after things he thinks give him an advantage. That's usually by bullying people until they give up and do what he wants. His voters like DEI? Bully and force things until it's stamped out. Justice convicted him, so break justice. Consequences for jobs and the economy, or even the law, don't matter to him.

He can demand the world from Denmark and France, yet he can't demand anything about the guy his admin wrongly deported to El Salvador?

appeasement doesn't work