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Pixeloid's avatar

I work at one of those woke multinational companies. For us, DEI means that on top of having short online training courses for security practices, company policy, and compliance, we also have one for DEI. The answers to the DEI quiz are very easy. Just pick the answer that ISN'T being a dick to co-workers or clients. I'm guessing conservatives would fail that test.

DLZbub's avatar

Boeing also offers employees a “winter break” from the last weekday before Christmas until the first weekday after January 1, just like Woke Universities,

That makes business sense. Paying holiday round the clock time and a half or double time, and still be understaffed because people are sick or took vacation or called off to travel, it's as economical to just shut down and have a maintenence skeleton crew.

HarryEagar's avatar

Back when airliners crashed every other month rather than every other year, all the pilots were white dudes.

AIB's avatar

One of the pillars of DEI, inclusion, is an umbrella that includes training, mentoring and opportunities to get good experience. It’s not just old fashioned “diversity” where you hired one black guy and then ignored him. Now it’s about training, development, incorporation, utilization and promotion. If you survive that process you are an asset to the organization.

HarryEagar's avatar

I hope that's correct. You sure got the once-upon-a-time version right.

Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

A strong Black woman who faced years of oppression and sexism to fight for her dream of becoming a pilot? Yeah, I'll fly on her plane.

glenglish's avatar

If there's one thing that'll piss off alotta snowflakes in the rightwing media, it's Intelligent Black Women. God forbid they learn we invaded and conquered Florida and Texas to stop 3/5 people like their foremothers from running away to freedom.

𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

I couldn’t bring myself to read all the hating stuff, but I did click on the link, where the woman pilot calmly asked to clear a runway because they were gonna have to come back. Now that, that was cool.

Politiquacks's avatar

Sounds like we just need to start blaming all corporate malfeasance / mistakes on the fact that they're majority white.

glenglish's avatar

Don't confuse us with facts. We need someone to blame. Now let's see if we can spin this one as "Black Girls stealing White Suburban Women's jobs".

Johnny Appleseed's avatar

Little kitty, kitty has almost as much ear hair as this old geezer.

Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

I'd like to see Matt Walsh land a broken UH-60 in the middle of a firefight with his leg blown off.

Emil Muz's avatar

Don't forget Challenger, unencumbered by any DEI/Dio/Opus Dei influence.

GrannysKnitting's avatar

there was a woman aboard!!!

ManchuCandidate's avatar

Two women actually (Jewish) plus an African American male and a Japanese American male.

Albert Short's avatar

Before the Dobbs blowback, this was supposed to be the Republican SCOTUS issue for 2024 - DEI and racial preferences. They wrote these scripts las year, they just rewrote the preamble

subterrene's avatar

This is just the dumbest fucking timeline. But not only that, when people with no shame are given media attention for playing with their own excrement in public, it just encourages more and more of their cohorts to do the same.

glenglish's avatar

I always get my RWNJ news second hand. Damn, the name Xitter ([ʆiɂtə:]) sure is a fitter.

Maybe's avatar

The War Against Diversity depends on the notion that white men are automatically superior to those of us who don't happen to be white men. If that's not true, then diversity vastly enlarges the overall pool of talent, which means there are more superior people available.

Can't have that, now, can we? Of course it would be even better if all children were given superior educations, superior healthcare, and superior opportunities so they would be superior. Let's try that for a change, shall we?

AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

"The hell of all this isn’t only that it’s so transparently dishonest, or even that the grifters are very open about the fact that they’re cynically manipulating people."

The hell is that it's effective and that people are taking it seriously despite this open dishonesty.

It's also a good sign that such people should fuck right off out of existence as soon as possible.

As for how "diversity leads to disaster" I'd like to point out that there were likely numerous cases of mechanical failure, some of which led to fatal outcomes that could be traced back to poor maintenance, of aircraft in the Luftwaffe during World War 2.

And I'd like to ask if any of these fucks would like to blame the great diversity (both in race and gender) of the air and ground crew of the Luftwaffe for being the reason.

Fifth Dentist's avatar

A lot of the German weapons, especially toward the end of the war and more especially the "wonder weapons" like the V-2, were built by slave labor.

So untrained plus I'm betting a lot of them made tiny mistakes on purpose to fuck up the Nazi's war capability. Plus they didn't have any incentive to do a great job as long as they didn't do it so obviously wrong as to get shot.