"Try to be less white" - what?!?

[Kessler]

Thought this was a joke, but no - it's just woke
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/coca-cola-sla...

Apparently Coca Cola wanted their employees to take this course by what seems like a woke cult leader.
The blatant racism is staggering, but it comes from a person who obviously makes big money on peddling the racial divide. Complete nutter

Edited by Kessler on Wednesday 24th February 12:25

[Johnnytheboy]

Being less white: wouldn't that be cultural appropriation?

[sgtBerbatov]

Do you see the irony of what you've written with what's on the slide?

[Kessler]

sgtBerbatov said:

Do you see the irony of what you've written with what's on the slide?

That it's racist? No, I don't consider that ironic

[98elise]

It's nice to know what all my negative white traits are.

Maybe BAME people could be less BAME?

[remedy]

So, all those traits are traits of white people only?
Thats the definition of racism.

All this is doing is creating division where so much progress to close that gap had been made.

[Countdown]

[bigandclever]

So, Coca Cola have distanced themselves from it saying ‘not our curriculum, gov, we didn’t create it’. And the (supposed) author, Robin DiAngelo, has also distanced herself from it saying ‘not me, guv, I’m not the creator or the facilitator of it’. Now what?

[anonymous-user]

bigandclever said:

So, Coca Cola have distanced themselves from it saying ‘not our curriculum, gov, we didn’t create it’. And the (supposed) author, Robin DiAngelo, has also distanced herself from it saying ‘not me, guv, I’m not the creator or the facilitator of it’. Now what?

Don’t drink coca-cola - it’s just st

[Kessler]

remedy said:

So, all those traits are traits of white people only?
Thats the definition of racism.

All this is doing is creating division where so much progress to close that gap had been made.

in a sane world, yes, that would be common sense.
But we are in a place now where stuff like this is shoved down the throats of students, and parents are urged to confront their kids with their "white privilege".

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-sch...

[Jasandjules]

I see. Well, that seems perfectly fair and reasonable...................

[sgtBerbatov]

Kessler said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Do you see the irony of what you've written with what's on the slide?

That it's racist? No, I don't consider that ironic

Christ you're dense.

[Sheets Tabuer]

They are basically asking you to be associate bob, no problem.

[Kessler]

sgtBerbatov said:

Kessler said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Do you see the irony of what you've written with what's on the slide?

That it's racist? No, I don't consider that ironic

Christ you're dense.

Great contributions to the discussion - keep it up mate

Edited by Kessler on Wednesday 24th February 12:27

[Red 4]

In essence then, roll over whiteys. You know you are bad people.

Not sure what that says about the author.

[Noodle1982]

Kessler said:

Thought this was a joke, but no - it's just woke
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/coca-cola-sla...

But apparently Coca Cola wanted their employees to take this course by what seems like a woke cult leader.
The blatant racism is staggering, but it comes from a person who obviously makes big money on peddling the racial divide. Complete nutter

The fact that non white people weren't invited to attend the course just shows how racist these large corporations are.

[Harrison Bergeron]

bigandclever said:

So, Coca Cola have distanced themselves from it saying ‘not our curriculum, gov, we didn’t create it’. And the (supposed) author, Robin DiAngelo, has also distanced herself from it saying ‘not me, guv, I’m not the creator or the facilitator of it’. Now what?

That name rings a bell
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/intellectual-fra...

You might have to google it and use the cached version.

[bitchstewie]

I thought PistonHeads usual response was that people shouldn't be offended so easily and they've never had it so good and something something free speech.

Imagine my surprise that this has ruffled a few feathers

[pquinn]

sgtBerbatov said:

No, thank you for demonstrating the irony of your post with your subsequent replies.

You have demonstrated arrogance, irgnorance, certainty, defensiveness, nearly the whole list of things you've got a problem with because you think it's wrong.

What has gone wrong in your life for you to be offended by that list?

Congratulations on missing the point.

[2xChevrons]

Kessler said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Kessler said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Do you see the irony of what you've written with what's on the slide?

That it's racist? No, I don't consider that ironic

Christ you're dense.

Great contributions to the discussion - keep it up mate

OK, to expand on what I'm pretty sure was sgtBerbativ's point:

Leaving aside the (probably deliberately) provocative context to the slide, you reacted to a slide suggesting that white people can be overly defensive, certain, arrogant, apathetic and unwilling to listen to or consider structural racial issues in society...in a way that hit all those points.

One slide from a presentation, out of context, tells us very little. It was probably intended for a certain amount of shock value to make the audience confront their subconscious biases - I've seen similar slides tackling different issues the same way. Or it's just a bad, overly-ambitious and self-flagellating attempt to make a point that is worth approaching.

As I said in the thread about unconscious bias, a big problem is that when there's a push to introduce this sort of training to organisations (or, worse, be seen to introduce it) it leads to a lot of low-quality information which does the actual matter that should be at hand a huge disservice.