如果早期的选举之夜结果能作为晴雨表，或许是时候让所有人更“觉醒”了。目前，全国各地的民调显示可能出现一场“蓝色海啸”，传统的共和党铁票仓正在被民主党蚕食——甚至直接翻蓝。乔恩·奥索夫在佐治亚州轻松赢得连任；南卡罗来纳州的参议院席位翻蓝；民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科预计将成为德克萨斯州的下一任参议员。
If early election night results are any barometer, it might be time for everyone to get more woke. So far, polls across the country show a likely blue tsunami, with traditional Republican strongholds chipped away at — or even flipped — by Democrats. Jon Ossoff won reelection in Georgia handily; South Carolina's Senate seat flipped to blue; and Democrat James Talarico is projected to be Texas' next senator.
互联网得出了自己的（某种程度上带玩笑性质的）结论：DEI（多元、公平与包容）强势回归。欣喜的X用户整晚开玩笑说，无论员工愿不愿意，代词都将重回邮件签名。“你有十二小时把代词放回邮件签名，否则将被举报，”一条X帖子写道。另一条帖子开玩笑说，如果民主党赢得53个或更多参议院席位，代词就必须重回邮件签名。
The internet has come to its own (somewhat joking) conclusion: DEI is so back. Delighted X users spent the evening joking that pronouns will return to email signatures, whether workers like it or not. "YOU HAVE TWELVE HOURS TO PLACE THE PRONOUNS BACK IN YOUR EMAIL OR YOU WILL BE REPORTED," one X post read. Another joked that should Democrats win 53 or more Senate seats, pronouns would have to return to email signatures.
纽约市议会成员奇·奥塞在看到德克萨斯州民主党参议员候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的有利预测后，写道：“代词立刻放回简介里”。还有一条X帖子宣称，民主党每赢得一个席位，就会新增一种性别。当然，这些都是随意的梗图素材，但它们折射出一种潜在的氛围变化。在唐纳德·特朗普总统2024年获胜后，联邦政府随即，进而全经济范围内的公司都打压DEI举措。
New York City Council member Chi Ossé wrote "PRONOUNS BACK IN BIOS NOW" in response to favorable projections for Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico. And yet another X post declared that there would be a new gender with every seat Democrats won. Of course, these are flippant meme fodder, but they get at a potential vibe shift. In the wake of President Donald Trump's 2024 victory, both the federal government and, in turn, companies across the economy cracked down on DEI initiatives.
一些公司确实要求员工从邮件签名中删除代词；其他公司公开收回DEI举措和目标，让一些员工感到灰心，另一些则感到受到肯定。总体而言，这是一个从2020年时代以种族公平和包容为中心的言论和举措的迅速大转弯，也是许多公司为避免招致特朗普和联邦政府的愤怒而拥抱的转向。然而，随着中期选举明显左倾，政治版图如今又被抛入另一场剧烈的地震式变动之中。
Some firms did indeed tell workers to remove their pronouns from their email signatures; others publicly pulled back on DEI initiatives and goals, leaving some workers feeling disheartened and others affirmed. Overall, it was a rapid about-face from 2020-era rhetoric and initiatives that centered on racial equity and inclusion, and a pivot that many companies embraced in an effort to not attract the ire of Trump and the federal government. Now, though, the political landscape has been thrown into another seismic shift with the apparent leftward turn in the midterms.
对于那些坚持推行多元、公平与包容（DEI）举措的企业而言，这或许是个好消息，因为选民正拥抱一批新领导人。当然，DEI 从未完全消失：许多公司依然在悄悄推行多元化招聘做法，只是避而不谈这个词汇。此外，民主党预计将取得进展，这也始终存在催生新变革的可能性；正如一位 X 平台用户所写：“我们现在要用双重代词了！”
For the firms that have stuck with their DEI initiatives, that might be welcome news, as voters embrace a new group of leaders. And, of course, DEI never fully went away: Many companies still quietly embraced diverse hiring practices, but shirked away from the term. There's also always the possibility that the likely Democratic gains lead to new innovation; as one X poster wrote, "We're doing double pronouns now!"