"Try to be less white" - what?!?
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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
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
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 stremedy 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.Thats the definition of racism.
All this is doing is creating division where so much progress to close that gap had been made.
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...
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 ironicEdited by Kessler on Wednesday 24th February 12:27
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. 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
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 bellhttps://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/intellectual-fra...
You might have to google it and use the cached version.
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. 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?
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 ironicLeaving 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.
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