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Assholes in the news
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RE: Assholes in the news
(February 23, 2021 at 5:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 23, 2021 at 4:47 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Coca Cola are assholes for pushing one of the most racist things I've ever seen on their employees. "Diversity training".

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By all means, let’s continue at our current levels of oppression, arrogance, certainty, defense, ignorance and pride. Heaven forfend we should listen to people and believe what they say. While we’re about it, we can continue to be apathetic and non-inclusive.

Boru
I can see the point in what they’re trying to say here. That said, there has to have been a better way of describing it than “being less white.” Keeping your privilege in check, perhaps? That would probably cover a lot more ground since there’s more to privilege than just your race (gender identity and sexual orientation, for one thing, also class, which may not be as relevant in this case since they have the same employer). Christ, isn’t acknowledgement of intersectionality supposed to be a big part of shit like this?
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#12
RE: Assholes in the news
(February 23, 2021 at 6:27 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:
(February 23, 2021 at 5:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: By all means, let’s continue at our current levels of oppression, arrogance, certainty, defense, ignorance and pride. Heaven forfend we should listen to people and believe what they say. While we’re about it, we can continue to be apathetic and non-inclusive.

Boru

The main problem is the title -- how to be less white.  That defines "whiteness" as being everything negative on the list.  That is racist.

If we created a list about "how to be less black", would that be okay?

Racism doesn't stop racism.  The hypocrisy of it creates a backlash against real change.
Well said.  I was thinking the same thing.

I'm not sure with my German, English, Irish, and possibly Scottish...umm...pedigree, I can be less white.
  
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#13
RE: Assholes in the news
Or it’s just a decent idea with very shit phrasing.
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#14
RE: Assholes in the news
I don’t find it explicitly racist, but I agree the title was thought up by someone with a tin ear on the issue.

Boru
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#15
RE: Assholes in the news
Certainly failing at no4 and no10, lol.
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#16
RE: Assholes in the news
(February 23, 2021 at 6:53 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(February 23, 2021 at 6:27 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: The main problem is the title -- how to be less white.  That defines "whiteness" as being everything negative on the list.  That is racist.

If we created a list about "how to be less black", would that be okay?

Racism doesn't stop racism.  The hypocrisy of it creates a backlash against real change.
Well said.  I was thinking the same thing.

I'm not sure with my German, English, Irish, and possibly Scottish...umm...pedigree, I can be less white.

What, no Black Irish!?  Angel
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#17
RE: Assholes in the news
There are no white irish.

That's the funny part. Whiteness has absolutely nothing to do with blood or soil, nothing to do with any intrinsic aspect or accident of being. It's a fictional category entirely defined by privilege. That's all that it's ever meant to be white here in the us or anywhere else.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#18
RE: Assholes in the news
(February 23, 2021 at 8:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There are no white irish.

That's the funny part. Whiteness has absolutely nothing to do with blood or soil, nothing to do with any intrinsic aspect or accident of being. It's a fictional category entirely defined by privilege. That's all that it's ever meant to be white here in the us or anywhere else.
Well, that and a relative lack of melanin.
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#19
RE: Assholes in the news
Nope. Plenty of melanin deficient people are and have been unwhite or subwhite. That falls under the accidents of being category.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#20
RE: Assholes in the news
White is not a skin tone.  Not for long anyway.  Look at Johnny Winter, the whitest sumbitch ever.
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