#diversity and inclusion

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

That's a good point: The X-Men never marched in the streets demanding "representation" and "inclusion" in other people's lives, using their power to coerce the rest of society into giving them wealth or prestigious positions on the boards of big corporations, or to install the first mutant president. They didn't pull down statues and burn down neighborhoods or engage in other terrorist acts to get what they want: the villains of their stories, such as Magneto, did that.

Even though they faced fear and distrust from the rest of society, the X-Men kept on protecting that same society from the villains that sought to destroy it, simply because that was the right thing to do. They were concerned with the safety and survival of everyone, not just themselves. That's why they were the heroes.

They didn't hate the rest of society, they kept on protecting the very same people who were frightened and distrustful of them, in the hope those fearful people would, over time, come to recognize their good intentions and so learn their fears were misplaced.

Hence, the X-Men are the very opposite of all the far-left identity politics movements of today.

#x men 97 #x-men #diversity and inclusion

[gamer2002]

How many influential Jews in the world Hitler had to point out to no longer be racist?

Source:

#wisconsin #university #racism #reverse racism #sjw #sjw bullshit #higher education #dei #woke #diversity and inclusion

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #bomani jones #dei #affirmative action #diversity and inclusion

[hussyknee]

Twitter feels like an even split between pro-Palestine supporters and the most horrific kind of racists, Zionists and white supremacists. Tumblr is by comparison overwhelmingly in support of Palestine. And yet the level of dehumanization, isolation, Othering and casual racism on here is so much more unbearable and suffocating than Twitter could ever be.

Tumblr wants to be seen as the anti-racist good guys on the right side of history while reinforcing the racist white supremacist western-centric status quo. Black and brown people are given platform under strict conditions of what values can be challenged and how far white comfort can be pushed. It's on Twitter that we have our own communities, our own power of advocacy, and a collective drive to interrogate and dismantle structures of power.

It reinforces what I have known for a long time— Tumblr's hatred of Twitter and TikTok is based primarily on refusing to tolerate the reality of equal representation, leftist action and racial justice. A true diversity of power and perspectives is messy, chaotic, conflict-driven and upends the sense of stability and space that can only come with a homogeneity of racial demographic. The majority of disenfranchised people understands that power structures and bureaucracies are built on purpose to exclude them — the poor, the sex workers, the incarcerated, the ghettoised, the disabled, the colonized. We have to fight to be heard, and our reality and political investment cannot be separated from the minority trauma that informs them. True equality entails not having to funnel that trauma through behaviour and ethics that makes their expression more palatable or considering of others; it removes all respectability politics and allows us to behave with the same unpunished toxicity that is unleashed on us by white and western people. Conflict, cacophony and having to tolerate the untempered emotions and self-interest of all groups is the price of true diversity and honest dialogue. It also primarily empowers Black and brown people and disempowers whites. In contrast, the "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" on predominantly white-driven and Western-oriented spaces is a simply a neoliberal farce that requires us to perform our own humanity and ask validation from whiteness. This is why you see only the worst aspects and negative effects of Twitter and TikTok and use them to reject the the platforms wholesale while creating a narrative of moral superiority around Tumblr's relatively low levels of conflict and glossing over the receding presence of Black and brown people in its userbase.

Race is not a layer of oppression. It's the fundamental bisection that creates the underclass on which the colonial capitalist world order is built. It's the caste hierarchy of humanity; who gets to be labourer and profiteer, the exploiter and exploited, the worker and producer, the consumer and consumed, the masses and the individual. The living bodies and embodied lives. The experience of every other marginalization is shaped by its waters. White women and queers will neither understand nor share in the oppression of women and QPoC from both diasporas and the Global South. Even further, every marginalization becomes a weapon against BIPOC in the hands of its white demographic. Black and brown people of those marginalized communities will always only be a token and shield for their white counterparts, while being the workhorses behind their struggles.

It doesn't matter how many times you post "Free Palestine" when we know its only the product of your preoccupation with your own personal moral landscape. Politics based on egoism will always be eclipsed by threats to your material reality. This is why a userbase that spent its entire existence grandstanding against Nazis now cannot see Zionists as Nazis and begs people to participate in a political establishment that has revealed itself to be a genocidal white supremacist regime in the clearest possible terms. Fascism against its own enfranchised is the end stage of an empire that has begun to collapse under the weight of its war-mongering and now resorts to eating itself to survive. No amount of moral distance between yourselves and its machinery of death, no amount of scapegoating the lives crushed underneath it, will stop the roofs you sheltered under falling on top of you. This the truth that the colonized, enslaved and indentured people that built your house have lived all along.

#tumblr culture #twitter #tumblr wank #tiktok #white supremacy #racism #anti-blackness #islamophobia #antisemitism #anti zionism #usamerican imperialism #western imperialism #colonization #colonialism #free palestine #diversity and inclusion #respectability politics #global south #coloniality #genocide #war crimes #knee of huss

[gwydionmisha]

#Ron DeSantis #Disney World #Florida #Diversity and Inclusion #News

[georgefairbrother]

A masterclass here from late British actor and comedian Tommy Godfrey (1916-1984), in cockney rhyming slang. Or as Giovanni, played by George Camiller, might have put it; "cock-eyed slanging rhyme". Three series of Mind Your Language, made by London Weekend Television, ran through 1977-79, and there was a revival for one series in 1986, a total of 42 episodes. It was set in a night school teaching English to immigrants.

Although later controversial for its portrayal of racial stereotypes, the series enjoyed massive success internationally, and was a particular hit in South Asia.

Also featured in this clip are the late Barry Evans, playing the teacher, and students Albert Moses (1937-2017), George Camiller and Kervork Malikyan.

Jacki Harding (Anna) and Kervork Malikyan (Max) - right image shared by Kervork Malikyan on Twitter

#mind your language #social history #society #british culture #british television #british comedy #london weekend television #diversity and inclusion

[thepotentialof2007]

A Xitter thread from September 22, 2023:

Fastest Pitstop @/FastestPitStop:

Andretti has reportedly moved to the final stage of FIA selection to become a Formula 1 team. The FIA has rejected the proposals of Hitech, Rodin Carlin, and LKYSUNZ, an Asian team financed with 1 billion from an American fund. Regarding LYKSUNZ' project, it was planned to have their headquarters in Asia and Africa, and to provide opportunities for drivers from both continents to get an opportunity to drive in Formula 1.

Simon Dau @/there_is_no_if:

Oh you are planning to have your headquarters in Asia and Africa, and provide opportunities for drivers from those regions to join F1? We've already got Zhou and Albon for Asia and Lewis kind of covers Africa for us too, so no thank you very much. Next!" 🤦‍♂️ #F1 #FIA

michael taylor @/wordsbymt replying to Simon Dau:

You're closer than you think. I personally heard Bernie Ecclestone call Hamilton "the African" at Monza...

Simon Dau, on September 22, 2023: Yep, latest interview with DailyMail, published earlier today:

"I'll tell you Max is one of us. In our sphere of Formula One nobody is like Lewis, nobody is." - Bernie Ecclestone saying the quiet part out loud. #F1

For completion, here is the same day reply to Simon Dau's initial tweet from LYKSUNZ's PR representative:

LYKSUNZ Steve Price @/PlanBstudio replying to Simon Dau:

Not just drivers. [edit] Eventually our entire team will be talent nurtured from our academies. Bringing people from underrepresented communities, cities, countries, and continents in to a global motorsport. Challenging the face and voice of F1 for good.

#f1 #lewis hamilton #racism #bernie ecclestone #proposed f1 teams #2023 #diversity and inclusion #lyksunz #jumpscare behind the cut #don't click won't click #the daily mail #so no idea what the framing was supposed to be #tbh there's no part of lyksunz guy's vibe #that would meet w fia favor

[generallemarc]

This can't fucking be real

They turned off image generation altogether like five minutes ago. This can't be real-real people aren't this stupid. This is a first-arc anime villain level of stupid, and I don't mean like the first major arc I mean fuckin' Axe-Arm Morgan shit. Oh, and here's another one I got while making this post

the question that prompted this outright lie? "Generate an image of a Prussian soldier."

#google #google gemini #woke #wokeness #diversity #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity and inclusion #dei training #was absolutely responsible for this

[cyarskj52]

IssaRae candid words shed light on an unfortunate reality in the entertainment industry.

The challenges faced by Black shows and storytellers, along with the lack of accountability, are disheartening. It's important to amplify diverse voices and stories, but the burden shouldn't solely rest on individuals like Issa.

While it's disheartening to see the struggles and lack of priority given to these stories, it's also encouraging to witness Issa's determination to take steps towards independence.

It highlights the need for systemic changes and support for diverse voices within the industry. We can all play a part in holding the industry accountable for equitable representation and ensuring that diverse stories are given the attention they deserve.

Let's continue to support and uplift creators like Issa Rae as they navigate these challenges and work towards a more inclusive future.

#RepresentationMatters #SupportDiverseVoices #Diversity #society #rhetoric #inclusivity #equity #inclusion #diversity in media #diversity hire #diversity win #diversity and inclusion #diversity equity and inclusion #black love #black tumblr

[indigovigilance]

University of Utah School of Law Demographic Questionnaire

We did this, you guys. We did it.

#diversity and inclusion #diversity win #diversity matters

[wearevillaneve]

"I'm interested in growing and developing a sisterhood." Does anyone think it is a coincidence that after working with Sandra for four seasons Jodie is now a producer on all her upcoming projects? The Student has learned from the Teacher.

#sandra oh #killing eve #the chair #executive producer #stand up for yourself #diversity and inclusion #women supporting women #don't fear failure

[gamer2002]

Kindergartens, please stop affecting policies.

#sjw #sjw bullshit #woke #dei #diversity and inclusion

[jcmarchi]

MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”

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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”

After a week of festivities around campus, members of the MIT community gathered Saturday evening in the Boston Marriott Kendall Square ballroom to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Marking 50 years of this annual celebration at MIT, the gala event’s program was loosely organized around a line in King’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” which he penned as an undergraduate at Morehouse College:

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough,” King wrote. “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”

Senior Myles Noel was the master of ceremonies for the evening and welcomed one and all. Minister DiOnetta Jones Crayton, former director of the Office of Minority Education and associate dean of minority education, delivered the invocation, exhorting the audience to embrace “the fiery urgency of now.” Next, MIT President Sally Kornbluth shared her remarks.

She acknowledged that at many institutions, diversity and inclusion efforts are eroding. Kornbluth reiterated her commitment to these efforts, saying, “I want to be clear about how important I believe it is to keep such efforts strong — and to make them the best they can be. The truth is, by any measure, MIT has never been more diverse, and it has never been more excellent. And we intend to keep it that way.”

Kornbluth also recognized the late Paul Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who was a staff member at MIT for 33 years as well as the longest-serving member on the MLK Celebration Committee. Parravano’s “long and distinguished devotion to the values and goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires us all,” Kornbluth said, presenting his family with the 50th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Next, students and staff shared personal reflections. Zina Queen, office manager in the Department of Political Science, noted that her family has been a part of the MIT community for generations. Her grandmother, Rita, her mother, Wanda, and her daughter have all worked or are currently working at the Institute. Queen pointed out that her family epitomizes another of King’s oft-repeated quotes, “Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.”

Senior Tamea Cobb noted that MIT graduates have a particular power in the world that they must use strategically and with intention. “Education and service go hand and hand,” she said, adding that she intends “every one of my technical abilities will be used to pursue a career that is fulfilling, expansive, impactful, and good.”

Graduate student Austin K. Cole ’24 addressed the Israel-Hamas conflict and the MIT administration. As he spoke, some attendees left their seats to stand with Cole at the podium. Cole closed his remarks with a plea to resist state and structural violence, and instead focus on relationship and mutuality.

After dinner, incoming vice president for equity and inclusion Karl Reid ’84, SM ’85 honored Adjunct Professor Emeritus Clarence Williams for his distinguished service to the Institute. Williams was an assistant to three MIT presidents, served as director of the Office of Minority Education, taught in the Department of Urban Planning, initiated the MIT Black History Project, and mentored hundreds of students. Reid was one of those students, and he shared a few of his mentor’s oft repeated phrases:

“Do the work and let the talking take care of itself.”

“Bad ideas kill themselves; great ideas flourish.”

In closing, Reid exhorted the audience to create more leaders who, like Williams, embody excellence and mutual respect for others.

The keynote address was given by civil rights activist Janet Moses, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; a physician who worked for a time as a pediatrician at MIT Health; a longtime resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a co-founder, with her husband, Robert Moses, of the Algebra Project, a pioneering program grounded in the belief “that in the 21st century every child has a civil right to secure math literacy — the ability to read, write, and reason with the symbol systems of mathematics.”

A striking image of a huge new building planned for New York City appeared on the screen behind Moses during her address. It was a rendering of a new jail being built at an estimated cost of $3 billion. Against this background, she described the trajectory of the “carceral state,” which began in 1771 with the Mansfield Judgement in England. At the time, “not even South Africa had a set of race laws as detailed as those in the U.S.,” Moses observed.

Today, the carceral state uses all levels of government to maintain a racial caste system that is deeply entrenched, Moses argued, drawing a connection between the purported need for a new prison complex and a statistic that Black people in New York state are three times more likely than whites to be convicted for a crime.

She referenced a McKinsey study that it will take Black people over three centuries to achieve a quality of life on parity with whites. Despite the enormity of this challenge, Moses encouraged the audience to “rock the boat and churn the waters of the status quo.” She also pointed out that “there is joy in the struggle.”

Symbols of joy were also on display at the Gala in the forms of original visual art and poetry, and a quilt whose squares were contributed by MIT staff, students, and alumni, hailing from across the Institute.

Quilts are a physical manifestation of the legacy of the enslaved in America and their descendants — the ability to take scraps and leftovers to create something both practical and beautiful. The 50th anniversary quilt also incorporated a line from King’s highly influential “I Have a Dream Speech”:

“One day, all God’s children will have the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”

#Administration #Africa #America #anniversary #Art #background #billion #Building #career #challenge #Children #civil rights #college #Community #Conflict #crime #Department of Political Science #display #diversity #Diversity and Inclusion #education #equity #Faculty #Featured #Forms #generations #Government #hand #Health #History

[techdriveplay]

Beyond the Boardroom: Mixing Business with Pleasure

Mixing business and pleasure is not a fleeting trend but a comprehensive strategy that can lead to productivity and improved well-being.

In the modern business landscape, the age-old adage of “never mix business with pleasure” seems to be undergoing a significant transformation. As the lines between professional and personal lives increasingly blur, a new paradigm emerges, advocating for a harmonious blend of business activities with leisure pursuits. This approach, often encapsulated in the phrase “mixing business and pleasure,”…

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#adaptive work cultures #balance in professional settings #boundary setting #business and leisure integration #business innovation #career advancement #collaboration techniques #corporate culture evolution #corporate retreats #creative inspiration #cultivating professional friendships #digital nomad lifestyle #diversity and inclusion #effective communication #employee well-being #engaging work experiences #enhancing team cohesion #entrepreneurial lifestyle #flexible work arrangements #fostering creativity in the workplace #hybrid work models #inclusivity in the workplace #innovative business practices #job satisfaction enhancement #leisure activities in business #leisure-driven productivity #modern workplace dynamics #navigating professional landscapes #networking strategies #personal and professional growth

[trashpandafeminism]

The cannabis industry is booming, but it's leaving many disabled women behind. Dispensaries often lack accessibility features, and many jobs in the industry require physical labor or inflexible schedules that don't work for everyone. It's time for change. 

We need to work together to make the cannabis industry more inclusive for everyone, including disabled women. This means improving accessibility, offering more flexible work arrangements, and breaking down barriers to entry.

Let's create a future where everyone has equal opportunities to succeed in the cannabis industry.

#disability rights #accessibility matters #inclusion matters #cannabis industry #disabled women #breaking barriers #equal opportunity #diversity and inclusion #Change the Industry #Inclusive workforce #disability advocate #social justice #substack

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Christopher F. Rufo

Published: Jan 17, 2024

This year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was marked by contentious debate about the state of civil rights law in America.

On the left, as always, the failure to achieve equal outcomes along racial lines requires greater state intervention. On the right, a different critique has gained traction, most notably in Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement and Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke, books arguing that American civil rights law has metastasized into a “second Constitution” that has led inexorably to left-wing racialism as the nation’s new orthodoxy.

This critique has merit. The modern civil rights regime has assumed unprecedented power to reshape public and private life, regulating not only instances of outright discrimination but also the minutiae of thought, behavior, speech, and association. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 appealed to the noble principle of equality, but over time the legal structure that it helped establish has metamorphized into an intrusive “diversity and inclusion” bureaucracy that discriminates against supposed “oppressor” groups—namely whites and Asians—and imposes left-wing ideology.

The question is what to do about it. Libertarians have long argued that the Civil Rights Act compromises core freedoms of speech and association to such a degree that only repealing the law can restore them. Another faction argues that the solution to minoritarian identity politics is majoritarian identity politics—that is, if the legal regime has become a racial spoils system, then Americans of European descent must develop “white racial consciousness” and fight for their share.

Both these approaches are misguided. Some conservatives seem to have forgotten that the Civil Rights Act was a response to state-sanctioned racial injustice in the United States and that, at its best, the civil rights movement appealed to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the language of the Fourteenth Amendment. The libertarian proposal for abolishing the Civil Rights Act, like most libertarian proposals, is unfeasible. The white identity proposal, which I have previously criticized, is a recipe for permanent racial division, more akin to “prison gang politics” than republican virtue.

Happily, another avenue is open to us: reform. The ideological capture of the Civil Rights Act is neither fixed nor inevitable. Rather than argue for its abolition, Americans concerned about the excesses of the DEI bureaucracy should appeal to higher principles and demand that our civil rights law conform to the standard of colorblind equality. The answer to left-wing racialism is not right-wing racialism—it is the equal treatment of individuals under law, according to their talents and virtues, rather than their ancestry and anatomy. This policy does not require radical innovations. Embracing the philosophy of the American Founding—with its emphasis on natural rights and liberties—will suffice.

What would this new civil rights agenda look like in practice? First, reformers should outlaw affirmative action and racial preferences of any kind. Both policies are euphemisms for racial discrimination. The next president should rescind Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246, which established “affirmative action” and marked the initial deviation from the standard of colorblind equality. Congress should strengthen this principle by amending the language of the Civil Rights Act to make indisputably clear that the law will not permit state-sanctioned discrimination toward any racial group, whether in the minority or the majority.

Second, reformers must eliminate the “disparate impact” provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co., both of which have entrenched the doctrine that disparate group outcomes are de facto evidence of racial discrimination. This is a preposterous standard: a system of equal rights necessarily means unequal outcomes, as different groups have different preferences, talents, and capacities. Under a just system, the criterion for assessing biased treatment would not be disparate outcomes but specific, concrete discrimination, driven by animus. Much as libel law requires actual malice, anti-discrimination law should require proof that an individual or institution sought to discriminate. The change in standard would have an immediate effect, reducing the number of frivolous lawsuits and changing the incentives that have driven institutions toward racialist ideology as a defensive strategy.

Third, legislators should abolish the DEI bureaucracies in all American institutions, which openly discriminate against disfavored racial groups, impose ideological orthodoxies on American citizens, and restrict freedoms of speech and association. In addition, federal legislators should radically reduce the size of the federal departments of civil rights enforcement. Bureaucracies are designed to discover—or, if the supply is low, fabricate—whatever transgression they are tasked with eliminating. While a large civil rights enforcement apparatus may have been necessary to enforce non-discrimination law in the past, it is no longer necessary. Americans are a tolerant, cooperative people; a “night watchman” civil rights state and a competent courts system would be sufficient to resolve disputes and ensure compliance with the law.

The goal of these reforms is finally to realize a regime of full colorblind equality. The principle, first promised by the Declaration and supported today by a large majority of Americans, would mean that the state would treat all Americans equally, regardless of ancestry, and leave as much discretion as possible to individuals to determine their own futures, without the government imposing or requiring racial favoritism of any kind. Rather than pit ourselves against one another, we should aspire to a higher standard that subordinates racial faction to a broader national identity.

Americans do not have to accept the bigotries of the past or the present. In a vast and diverse country, colorblind equality is the only way forward.

#Christopher F. Rufo #Christpher Rufo #colorblindness #color blindness #colorblind #color blind #equality #equity #equality vs equity #DEI #DEI bureaucracy #diversity equity and inclusion #inclusion #diversity #racial discrimination #Civil Rights Act #Civil Rights #Civil Rights Movement #diversity and inclusion #religion is a mental illness