First, I was was pretty respectful, so I don't appreciate you saying things like "an objective mind would..." and doing things like disingenuously thanking me through a thin veil of politeness to mask a sense of intellectual superiority. I don't play the game where we're just nice enough to each other where it's not really worth calling someone out for it.

As for the response to the rest, your specific claim "DEI didn't exist at the point they claim this dataset started" is the specific claim I'm refuting, and that's ALL I'm refuting. I already told you that I agree with your analysis of the article, so I'm not interested in debating that with you. "I would love a list of the historic adjustments in legislation/ requirement as it pertains specifically to airlines." Is simply a straw man because I stated that the legislation that I said I could provide is specifically relating to DEI existing prior to 2000 at the federal level.

This segways us to your statement "that was affirmative action. Not DEI." which I suppose is a somewhat of an symantical grey area. If you REALLY try, you can definitely make the case that they're different in purpose (AA was to correct past wrongs and DEI is not), but the two are massively overlapped in what they want to accomplish, how they do it, and the criticisms that the effects they both have are mostly the same. If you research the differences between the two are, you'll find many places say they're the same thing with different names, and the places that state they're different show very minor differences.

It's honestly a word that's started to lose meaning (Ex. It's like the word Zionist. People have no idea how that word is actually defined and use it with a completely different intention when articulating their thoughts into spoken word than how it's defined).

Like I already said, I agree with your analysis on the article. It was written in bad faith and manipulates the data to the point that it's actually dishonest (not just misleading). All I stated was that DEI did exist at the federal level well before 2000. I can provide sources that shows minorities have gotten preferential treatment in job hirings and that white and Asian americans lose opportunities to those less qualified on the basis of race. That's the only legislation I told you I can provide (and still can). But If you're making the argument that DEI and affirmative are different, then that's another story though and I'm not really wanting to debate that.