Gad Saad on X - "Do Muslim countries have a right to wish to remain Islamic societies? Does Japan have a right to wish to remain comprised largely of Japanese people? Does Rwanda have a right to wish to remain comprised largely of Rwandese people? Does any country have a right to protect its host society's culture and heritage? If the answer is yes, why is it wrong for non-Islamic countries to not wish to become Islamic? What is the principle that allows all nations the right to protect their identity but the West must allow itself to be altered irrevocably?"
Prof. Rennan Barkana on X - "The answer is that only the West suffers from… suicidal empathy."
Oikophobia, rather
Cabana Boy 🌴 on X - "Whole Foods has found the DEI hiring and multi-racial stores have less collective bargaining power and are less likely to unionize."
PsychicSaguaro on X - "And this is the reason for the culture wide DEI push. Divide and conquer people into tiny groups with no hope of uniting to resist totalitarianism"
BBC Chooses ‘Racially Diverse Cast’ to Play Characters in Drama About 1066 Battle of Hastings - "The BBC has chosen a “racially diverse cast” to play the characters in its upcoming historical drama about the Battle of Hastings, which occurred in 1066, leading one historian to decry the “bizarre notion that there were black earls in Anglo-Saxon England.” The eight-part series King and Conqueror, which is a CBS Studios co-production, will feature numerous non-white characters, including one taking the role of a real 11th-century leader... Historian Dr Zareer Masani, who has worked with the BBC, lambasted the decision, asserting, “Some of us, including people of colour, grew up thinking actors ought to look like characters they played.” He warned that the BBC’s approach is “hugely confusing and downright misleading,” adding that it was “absolutely crazy that they’ve applied this colour-blindness to a period when Britain was at its least multicultural, before even the Norman Conquest.” While it’s acceptable to depict Anglo-Saxons as black or mixed race, apparently it’s no longer politically correct to even acknowledge that white Anglo-Saxons existed, given a recent decision by The Cambridge University Press to change the name of its ‘Anglo-Saxon England’ journal to ‘Early Medieval England and its Neighbours. Referencing that development along with the new BBC drama, Cambridge historian Prof David Abulafia said, “Since the whole series will undoubtedly bear little relation to historical fact, I think we shall have to put up with the bizarre notion that there were black earls in Anglo-Saxon England.” “All the more so, since we are no longer supposed to talk about ‘Anglo-Saxons’. If they didn’t exist, we can do what we like.” CBS Studios executive Lindsey Martin said the show would offer “a bold and fresh take on a story that has endured for nearly 1,000 years.” So bold and fresh that it will be full of people who simply didn’t exist in 11th century England. No doubt regime historians will now leap to the defense of the show, insisting that it is historically accurate because there might have been a few swarthy looking people knocking around Europe in 1066, and anyone who complains is racist. As we document in the video above, apparently Sub-Saharan Africans built Stonehenge, while the BBC is still pushing the Cheddar Man hoax to children, insisting that the UK has been ‘diverse’ for thousands of years. This of course is all part of a social engineering drive to convince everyone that the deluge of mass migration we are now seeing is perfectly normal and should be accepted without a whimper of dissent."
We were be told that "these isles were Black before they were British", which means endless blackwashing is historically accurate
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "I forgot the Olympics were happening this year. You probably did too. Wonder why you feel this way? The Olympics becomes less relevant every year because of increased globalization, immigration, and loss of national identity.
As countries become more indistinguishable demographically, and you can live anywhere and become a citizen of any country, what it means to be a citizen of a nation or a descendant of a people means nothing. People are uprooted from the identity that roots them and stripped of their national pride in who they are and where they come from, effectively making us atomized, homogenous consumers and nomads of a globohomo empire. Countries cease to be a home where shared people share a history, culture, and heritage, but merely economic zones for opportunists to profit from if they have enough resources. Unironically, when you force and increase diversity in countries, you eradicate diversity in the world. Thus, it’s no wonder that events like the Olympics, which used to galvanize citizens to cheer on their home country, have been reduced to just another big sporting event where athletes compete against each other for personal glory, not for honor for their people. It has become mere entertainment, void of any purpose other than to line the pockets of plutocrats and globalists where you can pick and choose which sports team or athlete you are rooting for.
When it’s Indians vs Indians in the cricket world finals, Chinese vs Chinese in global math Olympiads, what is the point of global games if people who have the same ancestry are competing against each other on behalf of different nations? If East Asians represent Norway, Nigerians represent France, Turks represent the UK, Anglo-Saxons represent Japan, what is the point if people who have no ethno-cultural ties to the heritage and customs of the nation and its people become the representatives of that nation on the world stage? It loses its magic. Demoralization is the purpose."
Thread by @wokal_distance on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Woke and Weaponized government: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency in charge of public health, is totally captured by woke ideology. NIH is putting DEI into every aspect of public health including research, funding, and hiring. NIH goes woke, A thread🧵
It is not just that the NIH is adopting some woke policy around the edges, the NIH has stated very explicitly that "diversity is our lifeblood" and that the NIH is going to make DEI a "Core Value" in everything it does. NIH it has set up an enormous bureaucracy to fund this: The NIH has an Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which employs more than 45 people to focus on DEI initiative. Those people are listed below:
The NIH also has a program called UNITE, which has as at least one of its goals the creation of Racial and Ethnic Equity Plans. Remember, that *Equity* is not *Equality* Equality is about equal opportunity, Equity is about equal *outcomes* And UNITE is a large program, and the number of members for this program is staggering. And remeber, all of this is an ADDITION and ON TOP OF the already larger Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
The NIH has thus decided that one of the mandates that fall under the NIH is the ending of systemic Racism and Inequality, and the Advancing of Racial Equity. This is the hijacking of the governments public health agency for political reasons.
The NIH also released and notice saying that it was going to seek funding opportunities related to Diversity, and has been giving out DEI oriented grants which Advance DEI and "Racial Equity" in various ways:
I hope the picture here is clear: every aspect of the NIH mission is being brought under the ruberic of DEI. This means that in everything from hiring, to funding, to researching will have to make DEI a core value. This means all public health will be centered around DEI
During COVID Ellie Murray (who has done presentations for NIH) said BLM protestors could gather in public but everyone else had to stay home. The reason she gave: the left had "momentum." She changed the public health advice she was givingfor political reasons. Those who were paying attention could see the takeover and corruption of public health by woke activists clearly at the time. What I am showing you is how it came to be the case that public health officials made wokeness the primary goal of public health. Woke activists will join organizations, work their way into positions of authority, and then use those positions to redirect the goals, mission, and resources of the organization towards spreading woke ideology. This is happening with public health. Woke Activists in the medical field have taken the resources of the government that were supposed to be spent on public health and are using them to spread their political ideology. Much of the blame for this lies with Francis Collins, head of the NIH, who wrote a letter saying the NIH was going to take on "structural racism" in medicine. Once he did that, he gave the woke activists a pretense to launder their ideology into everything NIH touches. The congress has to step in, and we need to remove all the DEI positions from the NIH, the DEI requirements from finding, and the DEI requirements from research. And it needs to happen immediately."
Meme - "New Amazon show. The king of England is black, gay and disabled."
Oli London on X - "New Amazon Prime series features black, gay character portraying English King Edward VI- the teenage son of Henry VIII who died at the age of 15. The series, based on the novel ‘My Lady Jane’ reimagines if 16th century England had a different historical outcome with a ‘queer’ black man becoming king of England and ruling alongside Lady Jane Grey who was Englands shortest monarch- ruling for just 9 days. Several of the characters also shapeshift into animals throughout the series which claims to ‘imagine a very different history to our own’ whilst ‘centering queer issues from today through a historical lens.’ Source: Yahoo Entertainment"
Who is Lisa Cook? Historic Federal Reserve nominee faces Senate hearing - "Among those preparing to testify is economist Lisa Cook, who would bring to the Fed a career steeped in equitability and inequality research and marked by proposals on how federal policy could help improve economic growth through better opportunities for women and racial minorities... Cook would be the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board in its 108-year history... The official Senate Banking GOP account on Wednesday morning said that Cook had blocked its access to her profile and tweets. The Republican account had just days earlier used some of Cook’s prior social media posts to argue that she’s too partisan to join the Fed. “For years, Prof. Cook has used her Twitter account to engage in partisan political fights, taking extreme Left-wing positions on issues, especially noneconomic topics,” the Senate Banking GOP account wrote on Jan. 31. “This begs the question: Will @drlisadcook respect the @federalreserve’s independence?”... her supporters say her addition to the Fed would be welcome at an institution long criticized for its lack of diversity"
Thread by @realchrisrufo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "EXCLUSIVE: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is one of the most powerful economists in the world. But @LukeRosiak and I have discovered that her academic work appears to contain plagiarism, according to her former university’s policy. The plagiarism scandal hits the Fed. 🧵 There have long been questions about Cook’s academic work. Her publication history is quite thin, contains serious methodological errors, and largely focuses on race activism rather than rigorous, quantitative econ. She had trouble getting approved by the Senate. We have found that, in a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of coauthors in multiple academic journals, without proper attribution. In "The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names," Cook copied-and-pasted verbatim language from Calomiris and Pritchett, without using quotation marks when describing their findings, as required by her own university’s written policy. In "Rural Segregation and Racial Violence," Cook appears as the lead author, with Logan and Parman as coauthors. But this paper simply duplicates much of Logan and Parman's prior work, which appears to be a violation of MSU's policy on "self plagiarism." In the same paper, Cook and the same coauthors recycle, without proper attribution, long passages of identical language from an article they published in another journal, "Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching." Cook's work is littered with these and other instances of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, according to MSU's policy. Some of the instances are minor, perhaps signifying sloppiness, but others are much more troubling, rising to apparent misconduct."
Lisa D. Cook's Careless Scholarship - "Her nomination to the Fed required Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote; by contrast, her predecessor in the seat, Janet Yellen, now Treasury secretary, was confirmed unanimously. The quality of her scholarship has also received criticism. Her most heralded work, 2014’s “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” examined the number of patents by black inventors in the past, concluding that the number plummeted in 1900 because of lynchings and discrimination. Other researchers soon discovered that the reason for the sudden drop in 1900 was that one of the databases Cook relied on stopped collecting data in that year. The true number of black patents, one subsequent study found, might be as much as 70 times greater than Cook’s figure, effectively debunking the study’s premise. Cook also seems to have consistently inflated her own credentials. In 2022, investigative journalist Christopher Brunet pointed out that, despite billing herself as a macroeconomist, Cook had never published a peer-reviewed macroeconomics article and had misrepresented her publication history in her CV, claiming that she had published an article in the journal American Economic Review. In truth, the article was published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, a less prestigious, non-peer-reviewed magazine... Does the deliberate recycling of old material, including material from coauthors, constitute academic misconduct? It is true that journalists, for example, often adapt previous reporting into a compilation or a book. But the standard in academia is more rigorous. According to the Michigan State University guidebook, republishing identical material across multiple journals, without proper attribution, appears to be a violation of the rule against “self-plagiarism.” The standard is that scholars cannot use copied language “regardless of whether [they] are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea.” What should the consequences be for this kind of academic misconduct? At Michigan State, administrators have warned students that “plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course.” Certainly, for an esteemed professor and now a governor of the Federal Reserve, that standard should be the bare minimum. Cook is no stranger to mobilizing such punishments against others. In 2020, she participated in the attempted defenestration of esteemed University of Chicago economist Harald Uhlig for the crime of publicly opposing the “defund the police” movement. She called for Uhlig’s removal from the classroom, claiming that he had made an insensitive remark about Martin Luther King, Jr... Uhlig, in a 2022 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, asked the pertinent question: Under the leadership of an ideologue such as Lisa Cook, would the Fed continue to pursue its mandate, or succumb to left-wing activism? Time will tell if the gears of justice turn against Lisa Cook, or if repeated academic misconduct, defended by some as mere sloppiness or isolated mistakes, is fast becoming an acceptable part of the academic order—as long as the alleged author of that behavior is favored by the powerful"
By looking for plagiarism, Rufo is doing black academics a favor, since to the left, plagiarism is good when a right winger discovers it. So my making sure he's the first one who reports it, he's insulating them from criticism and consequences
Why does it seem like British media has more black representation than asian? : r/AskUK - "I understand the US having this, because south asians are a tiny percent of the US population. But in the UK, south asians make up 7% of the population, far more than afro origin people who are at 3.5%. Yet it seems like black people are much more represented in british tv/films"
"My favourite example of this is Harry Potter. Americans think that it isn't very diverse when it has been written almost by committee to tick off every demographic box (Dean Thomas, Lee Jordan, Kingsley Shacklebolt for black, Cho Chang east asian, Patil sisters for asian, Ron for the gingers, and Seamus for the Irish) For a 90's era school, the primary demographic being underrepresented is white kids. If there is any ethnic minority group being underrepresented, it is British muslims, not any of the demographics the Yanks are complaining about."
"They also love saying how racist we all are based on the Megan markel debacle and our colonial history. I’ve lived in the US. The UK still had a long way to go, but fuck me, we’re way less racist and more integrated as a society than they are."
Meme - Joyce @Joyce_004: "Quick reminder that there is no upper limit to diversity. You'll just be endlessly told things are too White until you wake up one day to something between Mozambique and Karachi."
John Deere eliminates DEI initiatives after social media criticism - "“We will no longer participate in or support external social or cultural awareness parades, festivals, or events,” the statement read. John Deere also announced that it would be “auditing all company-mandated training materials and policies to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages,” and would be “reaffirming within the business that the existence of diversity quotas and pronoun identification have never been and are not company policy.”"
Microsoft lays off its DEI team as ex staff slam company - "Microsoft joins a number of tech companies in walking back DEI commitments that were made in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, including Google, Meta and Zoom... the former DEI team leader felt the company had quietly given up on the DEI initiatives it pushed during the BLM protests. This included spending $150 million on DEI programs, and mandating training on racial allyship and privilege for all non-Black employees. CEO Satya Nadella previously insisted such moves would not be a 'one-time event.' However, the email reportedly scathed how in the time since, 'true systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020.' It comes amid further questions over the company's pledge in 2020 to double the number of Black leaders it employs at the top of the company by 2025."
Weird. Everyone knows that diversity makes good business sense. Why do greedy companies not want to make money?
Meme - *Hangars for kids' clothes with kids' faces*
*Black kid's face*
*Monkey eating a banana T-shirt*
Representation means you forever have to think about new angles where people might be offended
Meme - "Meet #TeamBoeing. Respect From Day One. Boeing engineers Gus and Casady share how Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) helps them feel seen and heard."
Meme - "AUGUST 2022
RAF 'pauses job offers for white men' to meet 'impossible' diversity targets. The alleged move has prompted the head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) herself a senior female officer - to resign in recent days in protest.
OCTOBER 2022
China's armed forces recruiting dozens of British ex military pilots in 'threat to UK interests'. All British former service personnel, who have accepted jobs to train Chinese military pilots, "are almost certainly enhancing China's military knowledge and capability," an official has said."
Clearly, to make the RAF stronger and able to fight China, even more diversity is needed
White man applying for West Yorkshire Police is told ‘we’re only hiring women and minorities’
We're still told that DEI just means removing the obstacles to equality so everyone has an equal chance and qualified minorities can be treated the same as white men
Diversity Was Supposed to Make Us Rich. Not So Much. - WSJ - "When management consulting firm McKinsey declared in 2015 that it had found a link between profits and executive racial and gender diversity, it was a breakthrough. The research was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more women and minority groups on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them. Unfortunately, the research doesn’t show what everyone thought it showed... Since 2015, the approach has been tested in the fire of the marketplace and failed. Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity. And the methodology of McKinsey’s early studies, which helped create the widespread belief that diversity is good for profits, is being questioned. McKinsey has tried to remedy one of the most obvious flaws. It originally linked profits over several years with diversity at the end of the period, meaning the most it could prove is that profitability led to more diversity, not the other way around. In its latest study, it said it had now run the tests using diversity at the start of the period, and still found a correlation. “In light of a recent study criticizing our methodologies, we have reviewed our research and continue to stand by its findings—that diverse leadership teams are associated with a higher likelihood of financial outperformance,” McKinsey said. “We have also been clear and consistent that our research identifies correlation, not causation, and that those two things are not the same.” The trouble is that McKinsey behaves as though the studies do show causation, constantly talking of the corporate benefits of diversity. Even the correlation is in doubt. Academics can’t replicate McKinsey’s study precisely, because it keeps secret the names of the companies it used. But a paper published this year finds that McKinsey’s methodology doesn’t show benefits from diversity for S&P 500 companies for a range of profitability metrics. It isn’t that a lack of diversity is good for profits either, it’s just there’s no link. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. If companies could boost their profits as easily as McKinsey suggested—the most-diverse firms had a 39 percentage point higher chance of higher-than-average profit margins than the least-diverse—then surely companies would have rushed to promote more women and minority racial groups. “It seemed implausible because companies would have jumped on it and the advantages would be competed away,” said John Hand, an accounting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With Jeremiah Green of Texas A&M University, he found no results that were statistically significant when repeating McKinsey’s study for the S&P 500. McKinsey keeps secret the names of the companies in its study, which in 2015 included 186 from the U.S. and Canada, so it can’t be independently verified. This matters, because the McKinsey study was hugely influential. McKinsey’s research figures first in BlackRock’s references for supporting a board diversity target of 30% in its proxy voting guidelines. It featured prominently among studies used by a Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner in 2020 to explain why she supported corporate disclosure of diversity metrics. Nasdaq cited it as evidence when the exchange applied to the SEC for a rule requiring companies it lists to have minimum diversity on boards, or explain why they don’t. It has been cited by dozens of campaign groups pushing for rules to support consideration of social issues by pension funds and others, too. McKinsey’s influence wasn’t only on policy, which ought anyway to consider moral and societal issues as well as purely financial ones. BlackRock and Refinitiv, now part of the London Stock Exchange Group, cited the study as evidence of financial benefits from diversity when they created an ETF that tracked a diversity index. That index has lagged badly behind since its 2018 launch, returning about 55% against more than 70% for the global index without diversity conditions. This seems to be less about diversity than the choice of how to invest in it. The ETF is equal-weighted, which has held it back as giant stocks beat the rest of the market. Because of the diversity requirements, it held a lot more banks and insurers, and less technology, than the market as a whole. A similar fund was created earlier by State Street Global Advisors with the ticker SHE. It was promoted through the “Fearless Girl” statue—briefly installed opposite Wall Street’s bronze bull and now opposite the New York Stock Exchange—and backed by research from MSCI, which claimed a 36% higher return on equity for firms with at least three women on the board, or “strong female leadership.” A moment’s thought would suggest this was far too high a figure to be explained by the presence of a handful of women, and subsequent deep underperformance shows skepticism was the right response. Since its 2016 launch the fund’s return has lagged more than 70 percentage points behind that of the top 1,000 companies, from which it selected before switching to an MSCI gauge two years ago. It has shrunk from a peak of $400 million to $245 million. McKinsey said in its original paper that “it stands to reason…that more diverse companies are better able to win top talent, and improve their customer orientation, employee satisfaction, and decision-making, leading to a virtuous cycle of increasing returns.” Common sense also says it’s easier to avoid potentially catastrophic groupthink if people have a range of different experiences. Common sense also insists that it’s important to build team spirit and trust, where people with a shared background have a head start. University of Chicago law professor Lisa Bernstein showed this for New York’s Jewish diamond dealers, who would score zero for diversity but gained financially by the trust from their common heritage. Similar studies have shown the same for other small ethnic business groups. Bernstein thinks such trust can be built from networks of social connections, but it comes built-in for some backgrounds. Skin color and sex don’t perfectly capture diversity of thought, anyway. A privately-educated Black Harvard Business School graduate would probably think much the same way about business as a white one. A top female New York lawyer may have a similar experience of life—or lack of it—as a male one. McKinsey’s diversity of thought suggestions don’t extend to, for example, appointing worker representatives to the board, even though their ideas might well be quite different to those of senior management. Finally, correlation is not causation! McKinsey repeatedly says in its study that it only found a correlation. The Aztecs mistook correlation for causation with tragic results, cutting out the heart of a victim to rekindle fire every 52 years in order to ensure the world’s survival. There was a strong correlation between the human sacrifice and the world not ending—but no causation."
‘'DEI Hire' Is A Slur,’ Explains Head Of DEI Hiring Department | Babylon Bee - ""DEI is absolutely necessary in hiring and is a great thing that we here at Inclusive Industries are extremely proud of," Blasser said. "We incorporate DEI into every aspect of the hiring process, but that has led conservatives to have the nerve to actually call some of our employees DEI hires. It's horrible!" In addition to this week's mandatory meeting, Inclusive Industries announced it was seeking a disabled Muslim pangender person of color to head its DEI Terminology Enforcement Initiative. Once hired, this person will ensure that nobody in the company is using vile slurs like "DEI hire" while also checking off quite a few boxes for the DEI hiring department at the same time. "It's important to spread the word that 'DEI hire' is not an acceptable term," Blasser explained. "Every DEI hire we make is taught to never tolerate being called a DEI hire." At publishing time, Blasser had closed out the meeting by reminding everyone that they should never say "DEI hire" and that the proper term now is "person of DEI.""
