An impossible compromise

I saw this on Mastodon:

US gov asks european suppliers to guarantee they don’t do DEI. Next: we ask US to guarantee they do fair pay, 5 weeks paid annual vacation and 1 year paid maternity leave.

No. Just no. Even if it were offered, which is pretty damned unlikely, this is a privileged persons idea of a compromise. We’ll let you have fair pay, 5 weeks paid annual vacation and 1 year paid maternity leave, if you just agree that no non-white, non-male, non-straight person will get those benefits? Solidarity matters, and I don’t think we should sell out a majority to get privileges for a minority.

OK, it’s not presented as an exchange of offers, we should just surrender to that European demand anyway. Fair enough.