Was this supposed to convince anybody?
A lot of these Republicans secretly hate that their disabled neighbor gets government assistance. They hate having to deal with the bagger with down syndrome, or the autistic barista. They think their pregnant friend should be married, a stay-at-home-mom, and it should be her husband making the money. They don’t want everybody to have an equal opportunity, they only want “people who deserve it” to have an opportunity. Where, of course, “people who deserve it” is conservative straight white men from rural areas, or whatever.
Honestly, how could you watch nearly 10 years of hateful rhetoric and think “oh, I just need to explain DEI better, then they’ll support it!”
DEI is just another corporate grift.
They don’t serve the worker. It is the state jobs to protect the worker and a union’s if there is one.
Some drone collecting paycheck from a corpo is the same thing as HR.
These parasites love talking big game but when push comes, they will always larp what daddy owner class tell them to.
I am still bitter I was forced to sit through a DEI seminar during my work day. Never again.
A whole seminar? And you even got paid? I feel for you.
I sense sarcasm… But this comment is bootlciker mentality in its prime
But either way, my time was disrespected and I will never attend anything like this again.
I get paid to work, nothing less, nothing more
When I don’t work, I spend my time with people who I care for.
You sound very idealistic, and I appreciate that. We all have to choose our values and where and how we apply them many times every day. We pick the hills we want to die on and one of mine is not “state-mandated paid training seminar.” I feel your frustration and hope that we can find more productive ways to encourage people to be less shitty to each other. You’re right - you shouldn’t have to pay with your time for what some other bad actor did, especially when you know that your values would never allow you to behave in the manner of that bad actor.
So yes I was being sarcastic but I didn’t mean it as an attack. While you may call it licking boots, I feel it is just learning to navigate the realities of our society. Thank you for taking the time to respond and make me consider this more.
I am not idealistic, I am just tired, boss
Like a lot of things, the original idea was a pretty good one. But, the original idea wasn’t compatible with profit-seeking at all costs, or the mindsets and habits of a crew of remarkably dim members of the managerial class who had to put it all into practice. And so, the original idea got thrown in the bin, and replaced with a tradition of remarkably dim one-hour seminars which accomplish nothing at all beyond wasting an afternoon every now and then, and prejudicing people vaguely against the still-pretty-good original idea, which remains in the bin, still in its original packaging, unopened.
Boomers sexually harrased women
I do a sexual harassment training
Boomer does racist shit
I do anti racism training
Boomers only hired whites into exec rules
I do DEI training
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I am done playing some parasites games. I value my time now too much to have to hear some idiot talk down to me on behalf of the guy who sexually harasses women and minorities while refusing to promote me into executive role