That pic of Donald Sutherland in The Body Snatchers is priceless in this context, 🤣. Unfortunately, I agree with your last paragraph. However, as long as we keep calling it out as the BS that it is, we can keep it to a minimum. This has been a long time coming, for decades, in fact. When trophies are being issued to last place and the wokity wokes stopped keeping score to save hurt feelings, I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. They set the kids up for failure in real life. Because real life doesn’t give a rat’s behind about feelings. It’s turning, but like you said, we are only one election cycle from devolving into the BS again.
For 50 years the Supreme Court carved out exceptions to the Civil Rights Act that permitted Affirmative Action - steps taken by government and business AT THE MARGIN to promote, hire, enroll fully-qualified minority candidates. It wasn't right, as it clearly discriminates on the basis of race (sex, etc) but we tolerated this MARGINAL abuse. Ultimately that wasn't good enough for (as you aptly describe) "the racket". No, they needed to heap more abuse on us. And that's where DEI comes from - not just favoring fully-qualified candidates at the margin, but actively discriminating against fully-qualified, disfavored candidates on the basis of race (sex, etc). Rejecting fully-qualified candidates BECAUSE of their immutable characteristics (race, sex, etc). That's patently illegal under the CRA. I'm with you that the market sorts best for competence, regardless of immutable characteristics, but the CRA is the law and DEI is clearly in violation - as is now, even Affirmative Action.
I was going to write something about agreeing with you but it seems whatever I had to say is aready covered here. It's nice to know there are so many like-minded people. I'm retired now, but I was witness to the drip-drip of social engineering into business decisions for the last few decades. I only hope the penulum doesn't swing back too far.
Next battles he’s going to win is the climate catastrophe claims and “green energy” is “renewable, clean, and cheaper”
The photo of Donald Sutherland is from his original Pod-cast, if memory serves 😁
That pic of Donald Sutherland in The Body Snatchers is priceless in this context, 🤣. Unfortunately, I agree with your last paragraph. However, as long as we keep calling it out as the BS that it is, we can keep it to a minimum. This has been a long time coming, for decades, in fact. When trophies are being issued to last place and the wokity wokes stopped keeping score to save hurt feelings, I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. They set the kids up for failure in real life. Because real life doesn’t give a rat’s behind about feelings. It’s turning, but like you said, we are only one election cycle from devolving into the BS again.
The harm the Left has done to America's young, for generations, is monstrous.
For 50 years the Supreme Court carved out exceptions to the Civil Rights Act that permitted Affirmative Action - steps taken by government and business AT THE MARGIN to promote, hire, enroll fully-qualified minority candidates. It wasn't right, as it clearly discriminates on the basis of race (sex, etc) but we tolerated this MARGINAL abuse. Ultimately that wasn't good enough for (as you aptly describe) "the racket". No, they needed to heap more abuse on us. And that's where DEI comes from - not just favoring fully-qualified candidates at the margin, but actively discriminating against fully-qualified, disfavored candidates on the basis of race (sex, etc). Rejecting fully-qualified candidates BECAUSE of their immutable characteristics (race, sex, etc). That's patently illegal under the CRA. I'm with you that the market sorts best for competence, regardless of immutable characteristics, but the CRA is the law and DEI is clearly in violation - as is now, even Affirmative Action.
I was going to write something about agreeing with you but it seems whatever I had to say is aready covered here. It's nice to know there are so many like-minded people. I'm retired now, but I was witness to the drip-drip of social engineering into business decisions for the last few decades. I only hope the penulum doesn't swing back too far.