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I just don't want them in our schools. Pointing particle accelerators at my kids makes me nervous.
The unsarcastic response is that "Critical Race Theory" is the concepts taught in educational institution which highlight how Racism has and continues to shape our society, and sometimes talks about the outcomes of various attempts to combat and repair these systemic failures.
Noise, size, weight, smearing, high voltage...
God I miss that.
I don't miss the noise. Still haven't found a smallish (by today's standards -- 17-21") flat panel that has the same picture quality as the best CRTs, though.
Don't forget the shocks, and the dust, so much dust...
They can and were used as IEDs when buried shallow and face-up with sharp rocks pressed against the screens.
They hold a lot of internal pressure, and a car driving over it would puncture the screen, causing the TV body to rapidly depressurize and explode upwards in a hail of glass shards.
This was how right-wing hero Pat Robertson was famously killed last year on his way to the annual youth slaughtering convention
The blatant racism around DEI fearmongering is really something terrible to behold. Funnily enough, the argument seems to be "racism/sexism isn't a thing anymore so clearly these are just less competent people getting jobs cause woke."
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn't even owned or crewed by Americans.
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn't even owned or crewed by Americans.
By whom?
The usual suspects.
What does dei mean?
Diversity, equality, and inclusion.
And folks are openly against that? ....why?
It's much of the MAGA Republican's internal platform right now.
They believe DEI policies are a George Soros funded Global Progressive Communist plot to destroy society by destroying meritocracy for white men, and nuclear families.
So basically they think anyone who isn't a white man is obviously bad at their job, and only got it because of being a minority. They believe this issue to be about racism (against whites).
They believe in equality of opportunity, but see ideological attempts aimed at hiring minorities as being about "equality of outcome" - and hence a kind of Communism.
They also don't like Inclusion, because they think it's aimed at making children gay and trans, and destroying "white culture/Christianity/marriage/family".
What a waste.
Some folks always need somebody else to feel superior over, I guess.
The explanation you were given is a pretty big oversimplification that ignores some very legitimate complaints that some people have. Of course there are those simple racists who don't even understand the philosophy behind DEI and are just generally opposed to any system like this, but there are also many instances of corporations, universities, and even governments taking it to the extreme, which results in kind of a "fighting racism with racism" situation. One example is Google being sued by an ex-employee over their policy to purge all applicants that were either Asian or white males. That's blatant racism in the literal definition of the word, and is illegal. Another example is California's failed Prop 16, which would have repealed the law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. The stated goal was that they wanted to discriminate against Caucasians and men for job applications and school admissions. Again, quite literally racism, and in this case sexism too.
While the situations like the ones I gave examples of are often made with the idea that they are helping, they're engaging in the very behavior they claim that they want to eliminate. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior famously said "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.", and likewise racism cannot drive out racism.
The crazy right wingers aren't the only people objecting to some of the implementations of DEI. Many Democrat and left-wing professors and activists have spoken out against what they feel is a misguided attempt to enforce complicated principles from DEI, but the detractors are often shouted down, ostracized, and accused of bigotry themselves. And that too has received condemnation from left-wing academics and activists, but their voices aren't loud, and they're not the majority.
Nope. Your explanation is the oversimplified one. In the public eye, DEI is being blamed for the results of corporate corruption, including incidents like the Boeing crashes and the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse.
There are valid criticisms of DEI from actual researchers, but that is not what conservatives are doing here. They are blaming people of color and women for major corporate oversights. I cannot speak to your two examples of corporate racism and whether they are valid examples of DEI, but it's important to note that the vast majority of DEI initiatives comply with the law.
Also quoting MLK as a rebuttal when your only two examples are illegal ones that I don’t see anyone defending is pretty nasty. Again, the vast majority of DEI initiatives comply with the law.
Being used as a weapon, for example in the last shareholder meeting for GameStop
So.... it's basically people getting worked up for imaginary reasons? Again?
It's actually Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
Gotcha I thought it might be Dicks are Enormously Interesting ^(hahahahaah very funny and intellectual joke)^
Hahahaha penis
Hehe phalus (intelectual)
Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I've been to DEI trainings. It's like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn't make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?
I don't know why, but this post has been like a mind virus to me, trying to intuit out the first ones using context clues. For those who don’t want to zoom in on pixels or google extensively, here:
| Term | Kind | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ??? ??? | - | Could be 5% sure this is “field hand” |
| ??????? | - | About 30% sure this might be “servants” |
| Colored | Slur | A more acceptable form now in the modern term “person of color/POC” |
| Welfare Queens | Very Derogatory Pejorative | Term disproportionately associated with Black, single mothers, stereotyping them as intentionally committing welfare fraud |
| Urban | Pejorative | More of a euphemism, not so derogatory except in fairly specific contexts |
| PC | Satirical Pejorative | (Politically Correct); interesting because even among leftists it was mostly a form of self-satire before being adopted as a pejorative by conservatives; in modern use isn’t so much of a direct derogatory as a downplaying of discriminatory circumstances |
| SJW | Pejorative | (Social Justice Warrior); the least racially charged item in this list, just a pejorative for a progressive or leftist who is vocal |
| Woke | Vernacular / Pejorative | African American Vernacular English for alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination; co-opted by conservatives as a pejorative yet still largely used by all sides of the political spectrum despite generally having moved beyond the concept of race only |
| CRT | Technical | (Critical Race Theory); academic field considering racism to be systemic; despite being an entire field since the ‘60s, conservatives began seeking to ban the instruction of CRT in 2020 |
| DEI | Technical | (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion); linked values used to define organizational frameworks that better represent historically discriminated groups including those across race and gender; has been called into blame by conservatives for several tragedies, the blatantly racist implication being that people of color are being hired despite being ill-equipped to perform |
What do the first four on the left say?
I think the rightmost of them says welfare queens, but luckily for my mental health I’m not knowledgeable enough about right wing fear-mongering to guess the others
Fuck. I see it now. I think the 3rd says "colored." I’m genuinely afraid of the remaining two.
It's not worth knowing. It's all ugly and gets uglier as it goes back. Nostalgia holds no sway here.
edit i don’t think it’s even close to any of these, see this comment for my closer guesses: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/6369471
i can’t find the original with my reverse image search abilities but i asked chatgpt to produce similar terms to sate those with morbid curiosity:
These terms have been used or co-opted in racially or politically charged contexts. Here are some additional examples:
- Affirmative Action
- Inner City
- Illegal Alien
- Thug
- Anchor Baby
- Diversity Hire
- Model Minority
- Low-Information Voters
- Globalist
- Ghetto
- Illegal Immigrant
- Third World
- Radical
- Cultural Marxism
These terms can be problematic when used to stereotype or marginalize certain groups based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
they're in a timeline. You have to find the fearmonger dog whistle that came before the welfare queens.
Those terms aren't similar to these terms. Most of those are insults. Affirmative Action is similar, and Diversity Hire would be how corporations speak to the action part of Affirmative Action, but the rest are slurs. These are approaches to specific actions and attitudes for a stated goal of equality, although some of these have gone beyond that objective.
girl it’s called brainstorming and just having a bit of fun plspls this is a meme community
Rightio! Carry on my good sir, or madame.