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From the New York Times:
The Big Business of Unconscious Bias
Companies want to avoid racism, sexism and misgendering. Consultants are standing by.
By Nora Zelevansky
Nov. 20, 2019, 5:27 p.m. ETRecently, a story circulated within the diversity, equity and inclusion industry (D.E.I.),
iSteve commenter Buck suggests: “And DEI is more accurate than DIE. It’s literally the new God.”
one that somehow didn’t go viral on social media: At an unnamed company, co-workers were taking their seats before a sensitivity training workshop began, when some white male employees entered as a group with targets pinned to their shirts — a sartorial statement about their anticipated persecution.
Apocryphal or not, “the story is powerful for two reasons,” said Laura Bowser, the board chair and former C.E.O. of TMI Consulting Inc., a D.E.I. strategy company in Richmond, Va., named for its two founders, but also the abbreviation meaning “too much information.” “One, it shows that there is still an utter lack of empathy and understanding about privilege and power dynamics. Second, it demonstrates how many diversity and inclusion trainings in the past have failed.”
DIE will not have triumphed as long as any white men still joke about it.
Of late, the D.E.I. (also known as D & I) industry is booming, creating new career paths and roles. Institutions and businesses are trying to correct power imbalances, which means a growing need for experts who can help address and define issues like unconscious bias.
“I’ve seen a difference in people’s level of engagement and desire to stretch themselves since the 2016 election,” said Michelle Kim, the C.E.O. and co-founder of Awaken, an experiential D.E.I. workshop company in Oakland, Calif., whose program is popular with the tech industry. “We’re seeing employees demanding action, not just lip service.”
Awaken’s sessions, taught over the course of months, combine large group activities, self-reflection and small group conversations, and focus on themes like exploring identities, overcoming microaggressions, thoughtful ally-ship and, most recently, inclusive language.
According to data from Indeed, a job-search engine, D.E.I.-related postings were up more than 25 percent from August 2018 to August 2019. ,,,
“Sensitivity training became popular in the ’80s and ’90s,” Ms. Bowser said. “It focuses on the negative: what not to do or say. But one-off training doesn’t shift culture in the direction we want to see it go: building empathy.” Inclusion is an ongoing process. Pay equity, language, marketing and hiring practices are all now subject to scrutiny.
Even at a well-intentioned company that espouses progressive values, there will inevitably be slips of the tongue and insensitive emails: the wrong pronoun, an outdated term, an assumption about how a person identifies him, her or themself. The glossary of appropriate terminology and inclusive acronyms and abbreviations is constantly evolving. …
Even the experts are learning on the job. While running a recent panel, Ms. Brown asked the participants to indicate their preferred pronouns when they introduced themselves.
She forgot to say her own, which, in turn, tripped up audience members, who fell back on expressions like “you guys” for fear of getting it wrong. “I do this for a living and am literally learning in real time, in front of audiences,” she said.
Ms. Bowser also recalled a slip-up: She was at a conference with a woman (post-gender transition) whom she had originally met as a man. In conversation with this person and others, Ms. Bowser accidentally referred to her as he instead of she….
The company strives to generate inclusion with initiatives like featuring personal stories from employees on Instagram and selling rainbow Pride laptop skin. “It’s become an integrative piece of how companies engage in their broader ecosystem,” she said.
How does one break into the D.E.I. field? Some universities, including Cornell, Georgetown and Yale, are beginning to offer certificate programs and online courses on the subject.
For now, industry leaders have a range of backgrounds: social justice, sales, marketing, political activism, minority studies, writing and more.
But, for some reason, generally not mechanical engineering or actuarial science.
Some, according to Ms. Bowser, just have a natural gift for navigating difficult conversations or defusing tension in a room.
Others have a natural gift for increasing tensions with hate hoaxes and using them to blackmail executives into giving them promotions and more underlings.
Whether consultants, recruiters, in-house D.E.I. executives, workshop leaders or manuscript readers in publishing, the positions demand emotional intelligence.
But not intelligence intelligence.
Often, people enter the profession after personal experiences with prejudice at school or in the workplace.
“I identify as a member of the L.G.B.T.+ community and a woman business leader,” said Ms. Brown, whose company originally focused on more general leadership training. “I realized this was an important cause to support and a niche with growth potential.”
The job can be challenging, she said: “People only sign up because their passion is so deep that they want to fix the world.”
According to Ms. Bowser, diversity support can cost $25,000 to $450,000 a year, depending on the client’s needs. Businesses also have to factor in the time employees spend away from their desks during training.
The process can take anywhere from three months to a few years.
Because obviously, the DIE consultancies are striving manfully (oops) to put themselves out of business by permanently fixing their clients’ problems. So, corporations will only have to pay $45k annually for a few years tops, absolute limit!
Fortune 500 companies with existing diversity departments may only need educational refreshers, while companies starting from scratch may require thorough examinations of mission statements, employee reviews, airing of past grievances and more.
Everyday is Festivus in the DIE biz.
Consultants talk to employees about their day-to-day experiences, redline handbooks and intervene with coaching and conflict resolution.
Tiffany Jana
Isn’t the word “redline” triggering? What if somebody’s great-grandmother was personally redlined by FDR in 1938, which is why grandma’s house isn’t worth 7 figures?
Despite, or perhaps because of, Silicon Valley’s reputation for diversity gaps, tech tools are blooming to help. TMI’s founder, Tiffany Jana, is developing Loom, an online assessment and reporting platform that looks at an organization’s culture and identifies inclusion gaps. …
But sometimes only the human touch will do, as Eve Campan, a human resources site manager for Porex, a large filtration company, can attest. … Each time, she said, more of the original dissenters came around.
After a few weeks, all the dissenters agreed that 2 + 2 = 5.
According to Ms. Bowser, the key is to make everyone, from assistants to C.E.O.s, feel as if they are part of the conversation.
I was waiting for the word “conversation” to be used.
“If you’re not making people aware and holding them responsible at the upper levels of your organization, then you don’t have a chance,” Mr. Johnson said.
In some cases, the term “diversity” itself may need to be redefined, so that it encompasses not only race, gender, religion and sexual orientation, but also veterans, people with disabilities, ageism, economic disparity, past trauma and more.
I went to see Ford v Ferrari and the box office clerk only charged me $8.75 because she misaged me as qualifying for the 61-and-up Senior Discount, while I’m still days away.
“The question isn’t about whether it’s effective,” Ms. Kim said. “It’s about how to make it effective.”
After all, everyone brings their own complex back story to the table, and offenses can go both ways. Melissa Roth, a Jewish writer recalled an incident that occurred in a fiction writing class in Los Angeles, when she used the word “gypped” and a white woman in class reprimanded her.
“I got called out for being offensive to Gypsies,” she said, “by someone who couldn’t pronounce the word ‘chutzpah.’”
Okaaaaaay!
One thing that your DIE consultant will never tell you is precisely who gets more privilege than whom on the Intersectional Totem Pole. Do Gypsies or Jews get more DIE Pokemon Points?
Nope, those are trade secrets.
And, everything dies….I am so done….there is nothing.
And, everything dies….I am so done….there is nothing. Don’t be a jerk, Steve., there is nothing, so nothing.
>>Recently, a story circulated within the diversity, equity and inclusion industry
So it’s an industry now.
Quite a growth industry. I understand that, after the Bolsheviks took over in Russia in 1917, there was an explosion in the number of people who were needed to make sure everything was politically correct.
And, everything dies….I am so done….there is nothing
“Stupid white goyim! Don’t you know if you can’t pronounce my language, you can’t call me out on my racism? So uppity!”
heads i win tails you lose:
> Melissa Roth, a Jewish writer recalled an incident that occurred in a fiction writing class in Los Angeles, when she used the word “gypped” and a white woman in class reprimanded her.
“I got called out for being offensive to Gypsies,” she said, “by someone who couldn’t pronounce the word ‘chutzpah.’” <
loom (2) / (luːm) /
verb (intr)
To come into view indistinctly with an enlarged and often threatening aspect. Example: The HR lady loomed at the doorway to the conference room, and Haven Monahan knew instantly that this was the end of his career.
They call it “redlining”? Triggering.
Okay, this is just shooting fish in a barrel.
That says it all, really.
“People are showing courage by getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
Great! So next week at Thanksgiving dinner, when I’m comfortable making everyone else uncomfortable, I’ll be showing courage.
I couldn’t help but notice the very large article on diversity and inclusion failed to include viewpoint diversity.
The truth is white men have contributed nothing to western civilization
The math is Arabic science is Chinese religion is my ddleceastern
So, sensitivity training is like Communism; It just hasn’t been tried hard enough. Here is Rat Nazi to the rescue ‘ve haf vays of making you sensitive’
And DEI is more accurate than DIE. It’s literally the new God.
People only sign up to be Commissars because their passion is so deep that they want to fix the world.
The truth is white men have contributed nothing to western civilization
You left out something about “white women all desire Men of Color”, Tiny. Slipping up, quality is down.
I’ve lost count. Is this your 8th or 10th new ID?
An article I stumbled upon about an academic treatment of Jewish migration throughout history.
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/history-ideas/2019/03/nothing-better-illuminates-todays-immigration-debate-than-the-migratory-history-of-the-jews/
Ministry of Love aborning. They are creating an industry, dogma and credentials, ad hoc and on the fly, out of whole cloth at warp speed.
OT: Watching Nova on PBS currently about violence. They are trying to equate it to infectious diseases complete with maps that match up areas it effects. Sounds dubious to me. They even have guys called “Violence Interrupters” patrolling hot spots in Baltimore.
Your buddy Pinker is prominent.
Sounds like a similar scam to above. Don’t these companies have any actual work to accomplish?
You mean like super-diverse NASA in the 60s? I call B.S. on this one. I think they might be mixing up cause and effect. I suspect diversifying is an effect, or something that happens to a successful business once it’s successful, not a cause of that success. Put differently, a successful business gambit, whether it does well because of a great innovation, sweat, luck, timing, or some combination of the foregoing, can afford to go all rainbow once it’s established. It’s like a trust fund billionaire kid who spends his time partying and lounging by the pool. “Research shows that partying and lounging by the pool are linked to enormous quantities of money.”
I bet.
Go rainbow or the EEOC and the Justice Dept. will be knocking on your door.
Clown World. If ‘1984’ had to happen, I almost wish it looked like the dystopia prophesied in that Pink Floyd movie with the jack boots and military parades. At least the parades and uniforms would be cool to look at.
“And how we burned in the seminars later, thinking: what would things have been like if every Diversity operative, when she went to facilitate a new workshop, had been uncertain whether she would return alive and had to say goodbye to her cats?
– Benxander Kenshenitszyn
In some cases, the term “diversity” itself may need to be redefined, so that it encompasses not only [personal trait], [personal trait], [personal trait], and [personal trait], but also [group of people], [group of people], [discrimination against a group of people on the basis of personal trait], [difference between people], [events in the past involving one or more persons] and more.
In this case, the term “stupid” may need to be redefined, so that it encompasses not only this article and the views championed in this article, but also the writer of the article, the people quoted in the article, and my decision to read the quoted excerpts of the article.
Literally “how dare the goyim speak to me, a Chosen One, like that?!”
I’m so glad that despite working for a major multinational corporation (hard STEM), there are practically no diversity initiatives or even lip-service to them. They didn’t even send a tweet for International Women’s Day.
We have one of those at our local gov. office now. It’s a make work operation in which the main organizer pesters people on how disparities *do* mean discrimination.
How much money is there to be made in this racket? What do these outfits charge per session?
Yeah, it’s turning out more Harrison Bergeron, complete with the diverse Directors of Equality. (She was female in the story).
During the 2016 rise of Bernie, Steve pointed out that “Bernie Bros.” were a lot of white guys with more testosterone on average than other leftist men, because Bernie’s initial pro-union policies spoke to men who wanted to secure the future through negotiation and actually demanding things in a manly way. But only a little, and then he went very wussy left.
This is all encouraging for us. If the testosterone is on your side, the aggression is on your side, and the women will drift longingly towards your side. Men just need to start ignoring leftist women demands—-and they will have no immediate way to force it on us.
You’re exactly right.
Once companies get sufficiently large, they’re often essentially forced to “diversify.” In the past, this was frequently only implicit; now, in the D.E.I. era we find ourselves in, it is increasingly mandated by new laws, e.g.: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/10/16/the-california-board-diversity-requirement/
Along the same lines, but even worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/europe/german-law-requires-more-women-on-corporate-boards.html
So established companies diversify once they cross a milestone — a certain size threshold, for instance. This has nothing at all to do with their success. And the performance of a company’s Board of Directors — or lack thereof — also tends to have nothing to do with the performance of the business. At best, the board consists of useful advisers; more often than not, they’re just a rubber stamp.
“I’ve seen a difference in people’s level of engagement and desire to stretch themselves since the 2016 election,” said Michelle Kim
The message is that the fact that the nation could elect Donald Trump means it needs way, way more diversity training. In fact, training sessions may not be enough–camps might be required for sufficient reeducation.
Dabney Eats It.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_System_at_the_California_Institute_of_Technology#Dabney_House
So it’s an industry now.
Apparently, and it appears that indicating your preferred pronouns is to it what the iPhone was to Apple.
As long as they stay away from D.I.Y. everything is A-OK.
(Everything is not A-OK.)
The Chinese are manufacturing retail products for the world and building high-speed railroads that criss-cross the country and superhighways with 10’s of thousands of new bridges and tunnels even in the remote mountains, and this is America’s new industry.
Best handle I’ve seen on unz.com: Citizen of a Silly Country.
t an unnamed company, co-workers were taking their seats before a sensitivity training workshop began, when some white male employees entered as a group with targets pinned to their shirts — a sartorial statement about their anticipated persecution.
Wait, where’s the empathy for their position? Where’s the sensitivity to their feelings? Where’s the inclusion of their point of view?
It’s almost as though this is just a yuge exercise in “get whitey”, but that can’t be true. Surely, that can’t be true.
Additional software packages that TMI sells are Lurk, Intimidate, and Menace
You’ve got it, Dtbb. If not already, companies like TMI will get US Government grants for this shit. A few years from now, on this track, obscure laws will be passed to make this “training” mandatory for companies of size 50 employees or more. A little later, a government agency forms … crawling through the slime … at the bottom of a dark Scottish lake …
“I got called out for being offensive to Gypsies,” she said, “by someone who couldn’t pronounce the word ‘chutzpah.’
Truly hilarious. Reminds me of an old Crossfire episode from the 80’s where Pat Buchanan started laughing at the Dem Tom Braden who kept pronouncing ‘chutzpah,’ with a ‘ch’ sound at the beginning of it. Now that’s chutzpah!
Astrology is more fun than implicit bias training, and stands on equally sound scientific grounds. And, I’m sure it came from wise Black Elders in Egypt originally, I think Mary Beard proved that.
Not really!
Industries make useful things and provide services that expedite the making of useful things. DIE destroys useful things and destroys the smooth corporate functioning that facilitates making useful things.
As a woke prog might put it, “DIE deconstructs”
what is the response by the red lining people when you bring up decent white neighborhoods that are now poor black neighborhoods? What’s the reason they fell apart other than just the generic “white flight?” How can red lining be the problem if blacks seemingly have the same problem in formerly nice areas?
We just won’t ask Republican elected officials to do anything legislatively about this.
All the agenda items we hoist on them, or we allow them to hoist on us, but not this. This one is for the Twitterati and iSteve.
If this crap isn’t a harbinger of a massive economic contraction I don’t know what is. This isn’t First-World problems; it’s Clown-World problems. If forced to attend one of these sessions, I’d recommend a red baseball cap and a well-rehearsed Covington Catholic smirk.
Getting old Tiny. If you want people to read what you write be more entertaining. Quit using sock puppets. Poor form old man and says, ‘I’m so boring and predictable everyone’s blocked me’.
I don’t block you because occasionally you can be entertaining but more people will block you the more you pull stunts like this.
The very notion that DEI is an ‘industry’ has ominous implications for our future.
You know, you can’t eat this. You can’t wear it. It won’t prevent smallpox. It is, materially, a complete waste of human time and energy.
People no longer do things that matter. This isn’t good.
If no one commented about Gyping the JAP, an opportunity was missed.
The US Army was a pioneer in the DIE effort: we were subjected to this stuff in the 1970s.
If they’d just gone with the meritocratic Opportunity instead of the socialistic Equity they would’ve had the material for a pretty awesome acronym.
One it shows that the men had accurately sized up the situation and knew what was coming – can’t have that.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
These “trainings” have exactly the same dynamics as Cultural Revolution struggle sessions. Maybe they don’t make the victims wear dunce caps and Big Character signs but the purpose is exactly the same. The victim is supposed to engage in “self criticism”. The struggle must continue for as long as necessary until the victim admits the error of his ways. If he refuses to repent, this only means that more struggle sessions are needed – as many as necessary to break the victims will. That he has the “wrong” opinions and must change them is taken as a given.
And then, one bright sunny morning, all of the people got out of bed, brushed their teeth, ate their breakfast, got dressed, then walked down to the corner, and voted for Hitler.
And nobody could ever figure out an explanation why.
The earliest DEI organization has been around for 91 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei
(pronouns: ego/mei/mihi/me/me)
The goal of “developing empathy” just means reaching the point at which no one dares to openly disagree. That’s the entire point of this racket….and since not all people are sheep, they have a perpetual raison d’etre.
Any relation?
A Full Employment Act!
Oh, they’re well beyond that. It’s 2 + 2 = 5i
This is a false dichotomy. Every country for every ethnic group has a relative shittiness of life index, which is made up of a number of factors – the general economic level of the country, the level of discrimination against your ethnic group, the opportunity to improve your lot in life, etc. If the index of Country A is about the same as that in Country B (e.g. Canada vs. the US) then you are not going to get a lot of movement, but if the indices are significantly different, it’s like the water pressure in a pipe that is connecting two tanks with different water levels – people are going to want to move to the place where the relative shittiness is lower and you are going to need to have a very stout, Berlin Wall quality valve on that pipe if you want to block the flow between two places at a vastly different level. (Notice that the movement itself raises the RSI in the place where the migrants are going – eventually they equalize and there’s no more pressure in the pipe, just as hardly anyone moves from Ireland or Italy to the US anymore.
So Jewish immigration could be BOTH push (the forcible expulsion of the Jews from various European countries) and pull (the offers of favorable treatment by the Polish kings). In rare cases (e.g. Jews moving from Germany to the Dominican Republic in the 1930s) it is almost 100% push but usually (e.g. the movement of Jews from Czarist and later Soviet Russia to the US) it was some combination of push and pull.
Deplorables and their culture are to be demoralized and destroyed. This means you. The sartorial instincts of those employees will mark them for corporate doom at the hands of HR. They will be subjected to relentless pressure until they surrender and eat shit.
30 years ago big companies started eliminating deplorables from technical employment. That effort has largely been successful.
It isn’t about fair; it’s about psychological death to deplorables. Ok Boomer, just eat your this plate of microbial sausage.
Now we will have Big Diversity as an industry-pressure group lobbying for mandatory employee re-education laws.
The good news is that the last time they tried this stuff all data showed it just annoyed and red-pilled its victims, er . . . beneficiaries.
And proper used of spelling and punctuation is clearly white.
Ancient Greece td. There are these guys named Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, kind of important as well.
Tiffany means “god appearing,” sort of like epiphany.
That’s a big fat LOL. My bad.
The NYT wisely decided to turn off comments for this one, probably guessing – correctly – that the thrashing they would get would result in a credibility hit which would more than negate anything they had hoped to accomplish with this idiotic article.
You didn’t just read it, you responded to it. Don’t feed the troll.
That picture accompanying the article seems a little to on the nose – a bunch of people laid out on a conveyor belt having their brains replaced, assembly-line style by a group of undersized little minions:
But only a little, and then he went very wussy left.
More like “he stepped waaaaay back”…
…note the classic genital-protecting passive stance. He’s too old for this ride.
This is all encouraging for us. If the testosterone is on your side, the aggression is on your side, and the women will drift longingly towards your side.
MAGA.
Men just need to start ignoring leftist feminine
womendemands—-and they will have no immediate way to force it on us.Women are natural socialists. That’s why giving them the vote is a yuge fail. That’s why feminism and socialism go together so well.
When the “community” no longer serves, the “industry” must step in.
Pay up, bigot!
Might that manly lady down the schoolroom row who is giving you the look be a trans?
Could be TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
“For a price, we will fix those!”
Many people in weird uniform with retarded boyscout heraldics on lapels wanted to fix the world. It generally turned bad.
The Democrats can’t use their midterm strategy for the presidentials: as one pundit put it, make white women cry about “family separation” at the border and then switch the topic to health care. They can’t do this, because the higher singular profiles ensure that if they talk about immigration they will invite the general public to talk about it more deeply as well as be invited to clarify their own intended course of action. I wish they would, as this would force the Republicans to be clear, and neither party wants to be: the GOP too beholden to the Chamber of Commerce and the Democrats to their dreams of future voters as well as the (((upper echelon)))’s dreams of a permanently disinfranchised founding population of what was supposed to be a white Christian nation. Donald Trump’s set a brilliant trap in late 2015 and the Dems bought the bait: he got them to talk about immigration without too much insistence or clarity on his part. It’s doubtful they’ll make that mistake again, so if he wants them to talk more about immigration he’ll have to talk more about it, and in that case he’d better have something incredible in the works before the party conventions (and I doubt he does, but he’s surprised me for the better in the past, so I’ll wait and see but not too hopefully).
More likely, however, the Democrats’ hopes for 2020 hinge on at least maintaining – if possible shoring up – black enthusiasm while avoiding stoking further negro fatigue (and its other intersectionalist analogues with respect to LGBT, feminism, third-world immigration) among whites. If they can hold firm their 2016 numbers then demographic trends are on the Democrats’ side but the task is easier said than done.
White centrists are inclined to take most of what is sold as “mainstream,” which has it that Donald Trump is a vicious far-right Nazi or Nazi-enabler. At the same time more than a few of them either are exasperated at the impossibility of getting back, on a small scale, to “business as usual” and a few even sense that the Democrats are becoming just a bit annoying with all this AOC co-optation. Anonymous comments on pieces like this give them a forum in which to find one another and discover they aren’t the only ones. Over time, this reinforces sentiments of exasperation among the centrists and emboldens them to speak out, something which could weaken the Democratic enthusiasm by exposing underlying divisions further.
> TFW you infect the peasants with your mindvirus and they turn on you before you manage to get to the safe space.
My company did away with all this stuff when the Great Recession hit, and has never made an attempt to bring it back. Knowing our execs and what they’re like, I’m sure they would LOVE to bring it back, but they can’t justify the expense. Our HR department ever since has been basically a few people who answer questions about benefits.
It seems like the establishment of a meddlesome HR bureaucracy is pretty good indication that a firm has more money than it knows what to do with — a company where finances are tight isn’t going to waste money on this stuff. Whether it’s a leading or a lagging indicator, or might be a clue for investors, I don’t know.
One great example of DEI in action is OG Twitter, circa 2012.
Diversity of users. Equity in exposure. Inclusion of all legal speech.
Well, we now see what DEI gets you, at least for Twitter. Less diversity, unless you’re only counting skin color. Inequity in exposure. Exclusion of certain forms of speech.
Why, it’s almost like DEI leads to friction and balkanization.
“Viewpoint diversity”? LOL, love your line. I believe you have invented just the right stick to beat back the hordes of political correctness enforcers. I am going to make full use of these two words “viewpoint enforcers”.
I mean they have at one point another been kicked out of every European country but this also rings true. There were large diaspora settlements in antiquity before the Temple was destroyed, so can’t say they were fleeing something.
Many Jews fleeing the Inquisition fled to the Spanish Netherlands which would seems odd on its face but the country had a decent economy based on trade and the Inquisition never took hold there despite Spanish dominion.
The promised extinction-level asteroid can’t arrive soon enough.
Wow, what an innovative way to, uh…get shot?
“I was waiting for the word “conversation” to be used.”
And I was waiting for the word “mobilize” to be used. Maybe next time.
Achmed, if China is so great , why do Chinese women still slip into the USA to have their babies? At the same time I have seen no data indicating China is having a problem with American women doing the same.
Jesus Christ on a raft!
And if you were subjected it was demeaning and demoralizing.
“Just lip service” as a contrapoint to “action” is rather exclusionary to the lipsexual community. Yes, that’s the “Ł” part of LGBTQWERTY…
Comrade, I think this needs to be reformulated and a CRITICISM is in order.
I wonder if this kind of training could be applied to our elites so that they could be taught to identify themselves first as Americans and with Americans, instead of having their first loyalty being to themselves and other elites around the world?
If so, I’d be all for it.
If we want life in America to change, we need an elite that is aligned with us.
All the stuff about racism and sexism and diversity is meaningless, next that. Nothing big is going to change until the people in charge no longer have all the money and power directed to themselves and leaving the rest of us to fight over the crumbs.
Many universities now require faculty to submit a “diversity statement” wherein you must affirm your devotion to promoting the school’s diversity agenda.
Here is Berkeley’s rubric for judging job candidates for their diversity. It’s a 1 to 5 scale, and even to get a 1 you have to pretend you are all for it.
https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/rubric_to_assess_candidate_contributions_to_diversity_equity_and_inclusion.pdf
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
As an aside, Chrome doesn’t consider “trainings” to be a word.
Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo of Sirius XM attempts to pronounce “chutzpah”. While he is a WASP, he worked in NYC for many years as part of Mike & the Mad Dog, so it’s not as if the word should be foreign to him.
I am being a pedant but Spain and the Spanish Netherlands were, in the relevant time period, separate constitutional entities with separate cultures and governments under the same Habsburg king, similar to the homophobic Jamaica sharing the same Queen Elizabeth as the homophilic UK. So Jews going from Andalusia to Antwerp would be like Malcolm Gladwell’s family circulating around Jamaica and Canada.
It’s because China’s too physically crowded with fewer resources and riches per capita. One billion Chinese would like no more than to flood into empty and fertile North America and start blowing up mountains, leveling forests, and paving fields to build megalithic infrastructure projects. Will our intrepid armies of DEI/DIE consultants be able to stop them?
The money is in getting corporations to fund and staff these positions.
You’d think the jobs would end when the place becomes 100% diverse. But I suspect the price of diversity is eternal vigilance from a well funded corporate slot.
I believe Michelle Obama recently explained this: white people take all the tax money to their new neighborhood.
I attended a super progressive boarding school in the 60s . I won’t mention the name but RFK’s daughter went there, along with many other rich and connected liberal kids. My senior class of 50 had one black student, but the school was busting its butt with minority recruitment. The next year had a more robust 10% or so. They’ve continued on the same line. Now, 50 years later, the school has hired a diversity and inclusion specialist. I’m sure the numbers are right but they’re so obsessed with being woke that it doesn’t matter. Crazy! What a waste.
Sounds like Randall Collins, who is kind of interesting. He’s written often about interaction rituals, the importance of momentum in confrontation, and the way violence can often be averted just by one party doing something simple to break the cycle of escalation.
There is something, so, something. Suck it up, at least for your children.
Someone named Russo is unlikely to be a full-blooded WASP, at the very least.
And people said most of those things were useless skills. Joke’s on…everyone?
The DIE effort at Ft. Dix 1989-90 mainly concentrated on making sure none of us started a riot in the barracks.
Alternatively, one might say that Western civilization is looking at an IED in the middle of the road forward.
He’s from Long Island and has worked in New York City for almost 30 years. He must have decided on the fly, deliberately, to say it that way—aiming for comic effect which didn’t quite work.
I’m from Virginia, the old one. Spent several years in the military, all over. And while these folks may have some stiff competition, I believe they are the most racist individuals I ever heard of. They take their own racism, project it onto everyone else, then charge serious cash to ‘fix’ it.
These are some smart bastards, I tell you. And anyone that cooperates with it is a coward. I’d quit, I’d leave the industry, the company, the country. This is the silliest shit I ever heard. I’m glad I was self employed and never knew this stuff was going on for so long. Chrissake, the decline is really on.
Good Job, Sailerman, you really found one got stuck in my craw, gored my ox, chapped my ass. I think I’ll go smoke some weed now.
The NYT is only doing the work of the Good, as always. I actually read part of one of their propaganda pieces today, which isn’t usual for me. Few surprises.
Hope and High Drama: A Year With Two New Democratic Congresswomen
Over and over and over: Who’s making it hard for these courageous, pioneering women? Republicans, white men, racists, sexists, white male racists, white male sexists. White male Republican racists. And so on.
And did we mention how hard the marble floors in the Capitol Building are for women? Your legs will really hurt after walking on these hard marble floors. So sexist! (Seriously–read it.)
Who comes to the rescue of new congresswomen? “Lois Frankel, a 71-year-old, 5-foot-3 four-term congresswoman from Florida” who barks out orders and let me tell ya, women obey her! (Why is her height relevant?)
Okay, I could only read a few pages of this endless, typically tendentious NYT crap before closing the window. It’s nothing new, but if I’ve missed something please anyone feel free to clue me in. It’s roughly a million words. Who has time to read these endless screeds? I mean, besides wealthy housewives on Long Island?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/magazine/ayanna-pressley-abigail-spanberger-democratic-women-congress.html
“You may not be interested in DIE, but DIE is interested in you.”
Insurance!
Reminds me of this bit from Ronald Reagan’s political-career-launching 1964 speech:
(From “A Time for Choosing” [see about 2:50 to 3:25], a 30-min televised campaign speech ad for Goldwater, aired Oct. 27, 1964 — said to have brought Reagan to national attention for the first tie outside of movies, and caught California GOP’s attention, who soon talked him into running for governor.)
The Ecuadorian I had to sell my house to made fun of me because I couldn’t speak Spanish. I felt like asking him what country he thought he was in and why his English was so halting. But I really wanted to get rid of the house. So it goes.
And the Cubans still in Cuba were the luckiest of all–to be rid of the slimy crook.
I never said China was “so great”, Simon. In my many Peak Stupidity posts on China, I have good and bad to say about the place (been there almost a dozen times). What I will say, such as in “A Peak Stupidity apology to our Chinese readers”, is that China is a CAN-DO country. America is not anymore.
why do Chinese women still slip into the USA to have their babies?
Yeah, and why do their families buy a house or condo at about the same time, huh?
Total mystery! Who can fathom it?
At the same time I have seen no data indicating China is having a problem with American women doing the same.
Perhaps the People’s Republic is not so foolish as to confer citizenship on any and every child birthed within their bordera?
That’s Opus Dei. This is Bogus Dei.
Fair enough, but his mother was English and he went to boarding schools, including a semester in England.
https://www.economist.com/schumpeter/2012/10/25/mckinsey-goldman-jail
Don’t worship the Left’s only DEI-TY, because when you do, you get TY (tyranny, yuckiness).
OK, I realize “yuckiness” is not a great-sounding word, but it means “repugnant, disgusting”, which are adjectives applicable to our most “diverse, inclusive, equitable” areas, with their rats, feces, and huddled masses.
Worship the Left’s DEI-TY and you D.I.E slowly, with no redemption or salvation, only escalating condemnation and perdition.
Mr. Bowser is powerful for two reasons, too: his fiery breath and his fearsome claws….
“It’s Medicine, Jim. But not as we know it.”
An unusual sports injury:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/21/sierra-leone-striker-injury-juju
I remember my father, back in 1961 or 1962, telling me about some kind of sensitivity training he had to go through at a major corporation. I guess it wasn’t very effective if they need all these follow up sessions.
Woke struggle session white guys should have had dollar $igns on their shirts instead of targets.
Ecclesiastes 1 New International Version (NIV)
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
“Luxury beliefs”.
So lucky they have to bring their own bandages when they go to the hospital.
Don’t forget they were recently kicked out of just about every Middle Eastern country too.
I was about to comment on his accent but it isn’t that distinctive and another poster inform us he grew up on Long Island.
Note that an interrogation is a conversation too.
So it sounds like they want to make DIE the Law School of the Useless (or those Worse Than Useless). I would recommend that this time normie whitey doesn’t run away from the problem but instead enter and dominate the field before he gets dominated.
They want a new way of speaking. A “newspeak” for short.
That and everything else. That snippet is a classic shining a light on male-female difference:
The guys are
— funny
— creative
— truth telling
— objecting to b.s. waste, stupidity
— risk taking
and likely
— actually productive.
These guys are quite likely engineers or production guys or otherwise involved in the core operation that actually make the company hum, profitable, have free income.
In contrast the women involved are scolding, tedious, boring, bureaaucratic crank turners and not the least bit productive but consumptive–wasting the money, resources the guys’ productive efforts produced. I.e. parasites.
The NYT’s scribblette is so buried in her femme world of useless makework that she thinks this nonsense is “work”, and these gals are developing an “industry” when she’s actually chronicalling the breakdown of the US from–highly feminized–rent-seeking parasitism.
Dude’s a pretty good teacher.
Yes! I especially like that he ties each step to a valid math operation, like distributive property, instead of just doing the calculations on the fly.
“D. E. I!”
*smack*
“D. E. I!”
*smack*
“D. E. I!”
*smack*
that’s the sound of them praying – it looks like the muslim prayer except you ram your head into the floor at full force, to heal the white-black intelligence gap.
I say someone should actually make some prominent intelligentsia member do it. Livestream it too.
Maybe the way to make America a “CAN-DO” country again is to put an expiration date on all the “progressive” laws. It can be done. The “Assault Weapon Ban” sunsetted after a decade of illegal anti-Second Amendment enforcement.
Joe, I don’t know if we have 10 years or even 5 to live with all this stupidity before the SHTF anyway. Also, one bad effect of the crippling and transferring-overseas of American manufacturing is that the “human capital” is being dissipated. The DIY know-how, the initiative, all that, is going away. Can we get it back? There are still dozens of millions of good Americans left.
all?
I thought Hitler only got 28% of the vote.
But that was the most any single party got, so they formed a coalition for their gov’t.