My company has a DEI program but it has little to do with hiring. It’s more about treating all employees and clients with respect and sensitivity. We did have a goal to get more women into management and upper management roles (which was pretty successful), but that was unrelated to the DEI program.
It turns out that having a diverse team is a good thing at a multinational advertising company.
As a practical matter for employees, there is a mandatory online training that takes about 30 minutes. There is a test involved, but it’s very easy for non-conservatives since the answer to every question is “don’t be a dick”/“be nice”. There are also numerous at-will diversity seminars available that are more work oriented. This may shock some people, but straight white conservative “Christian” males aren’t the only demographic who spend money on products and services.
Beginning to realize the trouble with DEI for "them" is equity. They strive for a perfect idealized meritocracy which I heard a few years ago (i forget the original reference most likely sci-fi or anime given my predilections) which interpreted meritocracy as if you lose it's your fault.
Equity is anathema to the MAGAt crowd. "Equity: The state or quality of being just and fair." — The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
MAGA 'Murkkka doesn't want things to be just and fair. They want it to be correct in their racist misogynistic world-view. They're losers who want to be not just winners but the winningest winners in all of winning-dom. Can't stress this enough: MAGA is the Fourth Reich
Thank goodness the NYT has taken the time to find “left critics” so we can be saved from the tyranny of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. If the people in government and the military and the private sector looked like the range of people in the country, where would that lead? Random color stop-lights? Banning bleach? No more White Castle Hamburgers? S/
the two concepts are so deeply entwined that they are more or less the same thing. One cannot exist in any meaningful way without the other. This is why “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” was never a real thing — because it’s not “socially liberal” to be cool with people starving to death and it never will be.
It's very similar to greenwashing, these efforts of course need to be examined critically to look for what aspects are actually effecting change for the better and which are merely performative. It's clearly not constructive to make the blanket pejorative statements about them that the GOP is parroting ad nauseum, but of course as you point out this is mostly just code for their misogyny, bigotry, and racism.
Does that mean telling women, "Hey, you know, if you die of untreated ectopic pregnancy it ain't really God's will"?
"Coddling the feelings of minorities."
Does that mean proclaiming that if two hairy nuisances in a truck with the Confederate battle flag on the bumper decide a black guy they never saw before is a burglar and approach him with shotguns in their mitts, and blast him if he talks back, it's murder?
I guess so. And clearly shit like this oppresses white men. C'mon, people, coddle THEM some more.
I'm 'fiscally conservative' in the sense that I don't want to be hemorrhaging money to the military and police departments anymore, but those two issues seem to be non-starters with the people who are soooo concerned with how we spend our money.
Thanks. They have moved on to simply attacking women, and literally papering over the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women, in my reading. It’s insane.
Insane. No woman should have been able to vote for any Republican, never mind the rapist traitor. We are told many did. A majority of pale ones. Insane. Prima facie evidence of vote fraud, for me.
But removing posters and portraits in scientific agencies, and abusing and ejecting the leader of the Coast Guard, and blanket orders, and I bet many, many more examples, deserves immediate and loud protests and action and demands for Republican heads to roll — by every woman in this country.
Where is that protest? Where are those multiple nationwide raucous protests? thanks, b.rad
With respect, Biden's communication skills had deteriorated a lot by the end of his presidency; he lost the confidence of a big chunk of the electorate during the June 2024 debate, and he was never going to regain it.
I'm not assuming that his cognitive skills had deteriorated to the same degree; in fact, I think they hadn't, tho they have declined somewhat (listen to him during the 2020 campaign, and you'll hear a big difference). But the decline over the past four years point to further decline -- old age heads in only one direction -- meaning that he couldn't have fulfilled his duties for another full term.
"...when it faced pressure from unionized workers, who had threatened to strike beginning Feb. 1."
Apparently that threatened strike has been averted, with CostCo reaching a deal with its Teamster union employees, only 8% of Costco's workforce ( I suspect it still has to be ratified ). Also, Costco agreed to pay some senior non-union hourly workers up to $30.20/ht, with 2 more $1 raises scheduled over the next two years. Younger workers with less time on the job will get a $.50/hr raise, to $20/hr. Supposedly this move was unrelated to the Teamster's threat, but it could be seen as CostCo trying to avert more unionization efforts in it's over 600 stores.
My company has a DEI program but it has little to do with hiring. It’s more about treating all employees and clients with respect and sensitivity. We did have a goal to get more women into management and upper management roles (which was pretty successful), but that was unrelated to the DEI program.
It turns out that having a diverse team is a good thing at a multinational advertising company.
As a practical matter for employees, there is a mandatory online training that takes about 30 minutes. There is a test involved, but it’s very easy for non-conservatives since the answer to every question is “don’t be a dick”/“be nice”. There are also numerous at-will diversity seminars available that are more work oriented. This may shock some people, but straight white conservative “Christian” males aren’t the only demographic who spend money on products and services.
Beginning to realize the trouble with DEI for "them" is equity. They strive for a perfect idealized meritocracy which I heard a few years ago (i forget the original reference most likely sci-fi or anime given my predilections) which interpreted meritocracy as if you lose it's your fault.
Equity is anathema to the MAGAt crowd. "Equity: The state or quality of being just and fair." — The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
MAGA 'Murkkka doesn't want things to be just and fair. They want it to be correct in their racist misogynistic world-view. They're losers who want to be not just winners but the winningest winners in all of winning-dom. Can't stress this enough: MAGA is the Fourth Reich
Thank goodness the NYT has taken the time to find “left critics” so we can be saved from the tyranny of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. If the people in government and the military and the private sector looked like the range of people in the country, where would that lead? Random color stop-lights? Banning bleach? No more White Castle Hamburgers? S/
I'm old enough to remember when the NYT was a great read. Now? Bird cage lining.
The New York Times: Let's get the lefty hamsters fighting. It's easy! It's what we do best! Just put them in the same cage and remove the barrier.
Me to the New York Times, last June: you are cancelled.
How cute of Darren to assume the existence of "competent white men"...
the two concepts are so deeply entwined that they are more or less the same thing. One cannot exist in any meaningful way without the other. This is why “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” was never a real thing — because it’s not “socially liberal” to be cool with people starving to death and it never will be.
So much that.
It's very similar to greenwashing, these efforts of course need to be examined critically to look for what aspects are actually effecting change for the better and which are merely performative. It's clearly not constructive to make the blanket pejorative statements about them that the GOP is parroting ad nauseum, but of course as you point out this is mostly just code for their misogyny, bigotry, and racism.
"Coddling the feelings of women."
Does that mean telling women, "Hey, you know, if you die of untreated ectopic pregnancy it ain't really God's will"?
"Coddling the feelings of minorities."
Does that mean proclaiming that if two hairy nuisances in a truck with the Confederate battle flag on the bumper decide a black guy they never saw before is a burglar and approach him with shotguns in their mitts, and blast him if he talks back, it's murder?
I guess so. And clearly shit like this oppresses white men. C'mon, people, coddle THEM some more.
Fuck the NYT. That is all.
I'm 'fiscally conservative' in the sense that I don't want to be hemorrhaging money to the military and police departments anymore, but those two issues seem to be non-starters with the people who are soooo concerned with how we spend our money.
After we get through this shit, and are taxing the wealthy at a reasonable rate, we deserve a party.
There’s a lot of nuanced criticism of liberal policies on the Left.
MSM reporters are too dumb to understand nuance. You are either for or against in their narrative.
Even the liberals who aren’t all in on DEI are not supporting only white men deserve good jobs anti-DEI Republicans are angling for.
We report horseraces.
You do the heavy lifting.
Thanks. They have moved on to simply attacking women, and literally papering over the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women, in my reading. It’s insane.
Insane. No woman should have been able to vote for any Republican, never mind the rapist traitor. We are told many did. A majority of pale ones. Insane. Prima facie evidence of vote fraud, for me.
But removing posters and portraits in scientific agencies, and abusing and ejecting the leader of the Coast Guard, and blanket orders, and I bet many, many more examples, deserves immediate and loud protests and action and demands for Republican heads to roll — by every woman in this country.
Where is that protest? Where are those multiple nationwide raucous protests? thanks, b.rad
America don't want competent white guys or Biden would be president still.
With respect, Biden's communication skills had deteriorated a lot by the end of his presidency; he lost the confidence of a big chunk of the electorate during the June 2024 debate, and he was never going to regain it.
I'm not assuming that his cognitive skills had deteriorated to the same degree; in fact, I think they hadn't, tho they have declined somewhat (listen to him during the 2020 campaign, and you'll hear a big difference). But the decline over the past four years point to further decline -- old age heads in only one direction -- meaning that he couldn't have fulfilled his duties for another full term.
Yet nobody is making the same valid claims abut tfg.
"...when it faced pressure from unionized workers, who had threatened to strike beginning Feb. 1."
Apparently that threatened strike has been averted, with CostCo reaching a deal with its Teamster union employees, only 8% of Costco's workforce ( I suspect it still has to be ratified ). Also, Costco agreed to pay some senior non-union hourly workers up to $30.20/ht, with 2 more $1 raises scheduled over the next two years. Younger workers with less time on the job will get a $.50/hr raise, to $20/hr. Supposedly this move was unrelated to the Teamster's threat, but it could be seen as CostCo trying to avert more unionization efforts in it's over 600 stores.
Link: https://wapo.st/40SpZOi
OT: mental health break!
MARU sleeping in warm sleeping bag. Also Kitten Miri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD3Z1i-DutQ