Hey, they had one straight white male character (who all of us with half a brain knew from day one would turn out to be a bad guy, of course).
If it's any consolation, Star Wars now is even worse. At least Discovery has one white guy who's a hero (though he's only allowed to be a hero because he's gay). Star Wars doesn't have a single white male hero anymore, period--gay or straight. The first thing the new Disney-SJW Star Wars did was kill off all the legacy white male heroes.
Don't include information on race, gender, etc. on employment applications and you don't have to worry about excluding people because HR or hiring personnel are bigoted, whether actively or unconsciously.
Yeah, good luck on that when you've got 1,000 SJW groups breathing down your neck for not hiring more minorities and women. You have to understand that, above all else, SJW's want reality to conform to their beliefs. And chief among those is the belief that, without discrimination, woman and minorities will always be proportionately represented to the overall population in every job (well, all the GOOD jobs, anyway--they don't give a shit about the crappy jobs). Therefore, if your workplace pays well and isn't at least 50% women and 13% black, they you *must* be discriminating--PERIOD. No defense is accepted, no matter how reasonable or convincing.
It's strange to see people who claim to not be racist say it's ok to not hire a white or Asian person because of their skin color but to not hire a black person is racist. It's all racist.
Haven't you heard? SJW's have redefined racism to mean something only white people can do. Everyone else is INCAPABLE of racism, because...umm...power dynamics or some shit. Because we all know that some dirt-poor white kid living in a trailer park in Appalachia has all the power over weak oppressed people like Barack Obama.
Yeah, because in this age of sexual harassment/hostile workplace/he-hurt-my-fefes claims being thrown at the drop of a hat, more informal communication between employees is EXACTLY what every company and agency is looking for.
At this point, everything seems to have been infected by the cancer of politics/social justice/etc.
It has infected even once sacrosanct common-ground pastimes like comic books, sports, videogames, etc. You can't even watch a football game anymore without some sports commentator or athlete jumping in to tell you how they feel about Donald Trump or the latest social cause of the week. You can't read a comic book where the lead character doesn't remind you on every other page they they're a strong lesbian-latino-trangendered-muslim who don't-need-no-man-to-help-them. You can't play a videogame that isn't tainted with protests about it being too violent, too white, too gay, not gay enough, etc. It's becoming almost impossible to escape to even one medium anymore without hearing anyone calling anyone else the most vile of epithets for disagreeing with them on politics or social issues. It's fucking exhausting.
At this point you could probably make a fortune just starting up a sports league, entertainment company, etc. that specially banned politics and social issues from its ranks. "A place where you can escape all that insane bullshit and just have fun" sounds so appealing right now.
These people do realize that it's their job as a parents to tell their kids what they can and can't do, right? Or are they too busy trying to be their kids' chill friend and obsessing over their own selfish shit instead of, you know, BEING THE FUCKING PARENT?
I resubbed to Hulu again on my Roku a while back and their new UI is almost unusable. Do the people that approve these new UI's even use their own services? There is no way that they do, or they would know they're taking a huge step backwards.
Let's start with the basics, kids: An upgrade should offer an *improvement* in the user experience. Otherwise it's a downgrade.
Yeah, sadly, there are a lot employees out there who are masters at avoiding work and deflecting blame onto others. I wish I was one of them. It would sure beat the hell out of having to take up their slack.
On one of the last teams I was on, half the team didn't even bother to show up for the team meetings. And many of the people who did show up refused to take any roles that required actual work. So if it makes me a control freak to be frustrated by that, then guilty as charged, I guess. Believe me, I would LOVE to be on a team where I could take a backseat and trust everyone else to even *try* to do the job. I'm the last person who wants to take the lead on anything, believe me. But it ends up being a choice of either doing it myself or the team failing completely. Shit, I would even be fine with the team failing completely, if it weren't for the fact that I would be blamed for it too. But no one is going to accept "Hey, I did *my* part" as an excuse when the team falls on its ass.
I wish I had some similar anecdotes. Ideally, a team should be assembled with complementary skills like that. But most of the teams I've ever been a part of were usually just a sloppy way of covering up for some boss's bad hiring decisions or to help some kids graduate who hadn't earned it.
Every time I hear a professor, boss, etc. start talking "team assignment," I know its just a polite way of having the strong students/employees carry the weak ones. Instead of some people getting A's and some getting F's, everyone gets a C. Kurt Vonnegut would be proud.
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You might get exposed to one of the parts of the country where people don't tell you their preferred pronouns when you meet them!
Hey, they had one straight white male character (who all of us with half a brain knew from day one would turn out to be a bad guy, of course).
If it's any consolation, Star Wars now is even worse. At least Discovery has one white guy who's a hero (though he's only allowed to be a hero because he's gay). Star Wars doesn't have a single white male hero anymore, period--gay or straight. The first thing the new Disney-SJW Star Wars did was kill off all the legacy white male heroes.
Sorry, but equality of *opportunity* doesn't guarantee that reality will to conform to your beliefs. For that, you need equality of *outcomes*.
Don't include information on race, gender, etc. on employment applications and you don't have to worry about excluding people because HR or hiring personnel are bigoted, whether actively or unconsciously.
Yeah, good luck on that when you've got 1,000 SJW groups breathing down your neck for not hiring more minorities and women. You have to understand that, above all else, SJW's want reality to conform to their beliefs. And chief among those is the belief that, without discrimination, woman and minorities will always be proportionately represented to the overall population in every job (well, all the GOOD jobs, anyway--they don't give a shit about the crappy jobs). Therefore, if your workplace pays well and isn't at least 50% women and 13% black, they you *must* be discriminating--PERIOD. No defense is accepted, no matter how reasonable or convincing.
It's strange to see people who claim to not be racist say it's ok to not hire a white or Asian person because of their skin color but to not hire a black person is racist. It's all racist.
Haven't you heard? SJW's have redefined racism to mean something only white people can do. Everyone else is INCAPABLE of racism, because...umm...power dynamics or some shit. Because we all know that some dirt-poor white kid living in a trailer park in Appalachia has all the power over weak oppressed people like Barack Obama.
Yeah, because in this age of sexual harassment/hostile workplace/he-hurt-my-fefes claims being thrown at the drop of a hat, more informal communication between employees is EXACTLY what every company and agency is looking for.
At this point, everything seems to have been infected by the cancer of politics/social justice/etc.
It has infected even once sacrosanct common-ground pastimes like comic books, sports, videogames, etc. You can't even watch a football game anymore without some sports commentator or athlete jumping in to tell you how they feel about Donald Trump or the latest social cause of the week. You can't read a comic book where the lead character doesn't remind you on every other page they they're a strong lesbian-latino-trangendered-muslim who don't-need-no-man-to-help-them. You can't play a videogame that isn't tainted with protests about it being too violent, too white, too gay, not gay enough, etc. It's becoming almost impossible to escape to even one medium anymore without hearing anyone calling anyone else the most vile of epithets for disagreeing with them on politics or social issues. It's fucking exhausting.
At this point you could probably make a fortune just starting up a sports league, entertainment company, etc. that specially banned politics and social issues from its ranks. "A place where you can escape all that insane bullshit and just have fun" sounds so appealing right now.
What's next, a lifetime achievement award for Harvey Weinstein?
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Tesla won't cover the cost of operating the charging stations
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.
These people do realize that it's their job as a parents to tell their kids what they can and can't do, right? Or are they too busy trying to be their kids' chill friend and obsessing over their own selfish shit instead of, you know, BEING THE FUCKING PARENT?
I resubbed to Hulu again on my Roku a while back and their new UI is almost unusable. Do the people that approve these new UI's even use their own services? There is no way that they do, or they would know they're taking a huge step backwards.
Let's start with the basics, kids: An upgrade should offer an *improvement* in the user experience. Otherwise it's a downgrade.
It's how being on food stamps makes you much more likely to become a criminal.
Yeah, sadly, there are a lot employees out there who are masters at avoiding work and deflecting blame onto others. I wish I was one of them. It would sure beat the hell out of having to take up their slack.
On one of the last teams I was on, half the team didn't even bother to show up for the team meetings. And many of the people who did show up refused to take any roles that required actual work. So if it makes me a control freak to be frustrated by that, then guilty as charged, I guess. Believe me, I would LOVE to be on a team where I could take a backseat and trust everyone else to even *try* to do the job. I'm the last person who wants to take the lead on anything, believe me. But it ends up being a choice of either doing it myself or the team failing completely. Shit, I would even be fine with the team failing completely, if it weren't for the fact that I would be blamed for it too. But no one is going to accept "Hey, I did *my* part" as an excuse when the team falls on its ass.
I wish I had some similar anecdotes. Ideally, a team should be assembled with complementary skills like that. But most of the teams I've ever been a part of were usually just a sloppy way of covering up for some boss's bad hiring decisions or to help some kids graduate who hadn't earned it.
Too bad you don't have a team to help you with your writing.
Yeah, all those dirt-poor kids growing up in Appalachia don't realize how privileged they have it compared to an oppressed person like Jaden Smith.
Thanks for setting me straight on how effortless the world is with a white privilege card. I'm so woke now.
Every time I hear a professor, boss, etc. start talking "team assignment," I know its just a polite way of having the strong students/employees carry the weak ones. Instead of some people getting A's and some getting F's, everyone gets a C. Kurt Vonnegut would be proud.
This is true. It's basically Nintendo's backdoor way to exit the console market while saving face.
"Diversity" is just modern code for "white guys suck."
This whole article sounds like a glorified polemic on why you shouldn't hire white males, even if they've worked hard and earned it.
Me doing all the work, and a bunch of other people sitting on their asses.
No more DUI charges for me!
But it's got Mario!
Most city councilmen in Detroit hold an auction once a month for their vote. Last month, the hotels won.