Monday, October 21, 2024

Links - 21st October 2024 (2 - Diversity)

Meme - "Queen Cleopatra 1st Century A.D. *White* Queen Cleopatra Now *Black*
Anne Boleyn 1536 *White* Anne Boleyn Now *Black*
George Boleyn 1536 *White* George Boleyn Now *Black*
Hannible Barca (247 BC-184 BC) *White* Hannible Barca Now *Black*
Jarl Haakon Sigurdsson 950 A.D. *White Man* Jarl Haakon Sigurdsson Now *Black Woman*
Queen Charlotte 1744-1818 *White* Queen Charlotte Now *Black*
Richard III 1485 *White* Richard III Now *Black (Danai Gurira)*
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) *White* Sir Isaac Newton Now *Black*"
Left wingers hate whitewashing not because raceswapping is bad, but because white people are bad

Jenna Ortega Says James Bond Shouldn't Be a Woman - "During a recent video interview with MTV while on the publicity tour for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” Ortega was asked if she might consider an offer from director Tim Burton to revive “Edward Scissorhands” as the gender-flipped Edith Scissorhands, but Ortega would rather just get to lead a franchise as an original character instead.  “I love that there’s a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that’s so special. But we should have our own,” Ortega said. “I don’t like it when it’s like a spinoff — I don’t want to see like ‘Jamie Bond.’ You know? I want to see another badass.” Ortega won’t have to worry about the James Bond franchise switching genders as longtime franchise producer Barbara Broccoli has always said 007 will remain a man...  “I think [the next James Bond] will be a man because I don’t think a woman should play James Bond,” Broccoli told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men’s roles. I don’t think there are enough great roles for women, and it’s very important to me that we make movies for women about women. He should be British, so British can be any [ethnicity or race].”  Ana de Armas, who starred in “No Time to Die” opposite Craig, similarly told The Sun when the movie opened in theaters that Bond should remain a guy.  “There’s no need for a female Bond,” she said. “There shouldn’t be any need to steal someone else’s character, you know, to take over. This is a novel, and it leads into this James Bond world and this fantasy of that universe where he’s at.”  “What I would like is that the female roles in the Bond films, even though Bond will continue to be a man, are brought to life in a different way,” de Armas added. “That they’re given a more substantial part and recognition. That’s what I think is more interesting than flipping things.”  Daniel Craig himself told Radio Times on the topic: “The answer to that is very simple. There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color. Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”"

श्रीकान्तः on X - "If DEI is a good thing in the progressive world view, why is it a slur to call someone a DEI hire? If you are offended by it, then maybe you shouldn't have DEI. Can't have it both ways"

Molson Coors ends diversity, equity and inclusion policies, moves to 'broader view' - "Brewing company Molson Coors says it is dropping its diversity, equity and inclusion policies and taking a "broader view" in which all employees know they are welcome. In an internal memo Molson Coors shared with The Canadian Press, the company says its DEI employee training is complete and that it will no longer have specific "representation goals" in its hiring process. As well, the Canadian-American multinational says it will no longer participate in the ranking program by the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group that scores companies on how inclusive their workplace practices are toward to the LGBTQ+ community."

danisha carter on X - "if men’s mental health mattered (to men) they’d be creating safe spaces for themselves and each other, pursuing therapy, and creating community. instead, they perpetuate the very behaviors systems that have handicapped them in the first place, refuse to support or create community amongst each other, severely damage the women in their lives who try to care for them, and attack women online for not doing the work for them in replies to tweets like the one below lol."
The Critical Drinker on X - "People like you made it literally impossible for men to have any spaces/hobbies/clubs/interests/groups or social spaces of their own. People like you mandated that women MUST be included in everything they think and do. And now people like you berate them for not having the very things they're prevented from having. People like you are the problem."
homo duplex on X - ""Men need to talk about their feelings more"
*men talk about their feelings*
"Oh boohoo, male tears, entitlement much?"
It's abuse."

@amuse on X - "DIE: The Chief of the Boat of the USS Manchester currently deployed in the South China Sea installed an illegal Starlink antenna and secret wifi network so she could watch her favorite telenovelas. When she was caught she lied to her commanding officer and the admiral not once but three times forcing an official NCIS investigation to be conducted. The antenna and network potentially allowed the Chinese Navy to track the ship and penetrate its classified Combat Information Systems.  Despite putting the entire crew of the Manchester at risk AND lying to her commanding officer Command Senior Chief Petty Officer Grisel Marrero was not given any prison time nor was she separated from the Navy - instead she was demoted to Chief Petty Officer and reassigned. Marrero was recruited and promoted BECAUSE of her racial and cultural identity to meet the diversity, equity, and inclusion goals of the Navy. As a result, her command did not believe they could separate her from the Navy much less sentence her to prison.   Like, reply, and subscribe if you’re as concerned as I am about DEI recruiting and promotion in the US Armed Forces."
Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media - "She and more than a dozen other chief petty officers used it to send messages home and keep up with the news and bought signal amplifiers during a stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after they realized the wireless signal did not cover all areas of the ship, according to the investigation.  Those involved also used the Chief Petty Officer Association’s debit card to pay off the $1,000 monthly Starlink bill.  The network was not shared with rank-and-file sailors.  Marrero tried to hide the network, which she called “Stinky,” by renaming it as a printer, denying its existence and even intercepting a comment about the network left in the commanding officer’s suggestion box, according to the investigation... she was convicted at a court-martial where she pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and providing false official statements to commanders"

Fearless Fund drops grant program for Black women business owners in lawsuit settlement - "A venture capital firm has closed down a grant contest for Black women business owners as part of a settlement agreement with a conservative group that had filed a lawsuit alleging the program was discriminatory, both sides announced Wednesday. The settlement came two months after a U.S. federal court of appeals panel ordered the Atlanta-Based Fearless Fund to suspend the Strivers Grant Contest, which provided $20,000 to businesses that are majority owned by Black women. In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court ruled that the American Alliance for Equal Rights, led by conservative activist Ed Blum, was likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program illegally discriminated on the basis of race."

Meme - saira rao @sairasameerarao: "Diversity and Inclusion has given us Black and brown faces committing white crimes. Bravo"
Even by her usual standards this is ???

If they want more diversity in medieval europe, why not make more content about medieval spain? : r/MauLer - "Or Sicily, or Constantinople or places the trade was big. It's not that hard you just have to pick a place where it is historically accurate. Like El cid which I think was pretty good spanish show."
"Then they have to recognize the Arabic/Muslim worlds conquest, colonization, and slave taking in Europa/Byzantium. That is a big no no in Hollywood.  There brain will totally short circuit, if you tell them that north west Africa along the Mediterranean Sea was settled with Vandals (Germanic people) Before the Arabic/Muslim arrived and destroyed/out competed the Vandals."
"Yeah you can never acknowledge anything like that. Heaven forbid you mention Tripoli and slaving of the Caucasus.  Slavery was exclusively American and it was exclusively ethnically white Europeans enslaving poor Africans and no one else was involved, slavery didn't happen anywhere else and if it did it wasn't important enough, and most importantly there is no slavery currently going on today! Do not look into the US Prison System and do not look around the world. Steer especially clear of Africa."
If they want more diversity in medieval europe, why not make more content about medieval spain? : r/MauLer - "They don’t want diversity they what their thoughts on diversity. Basically it’s a racist power fantasy  Like the woman king or cleopatra where they just deliberately chose to fuck with history, just because they want to. Honestly I see no reason why those things were ever made it past the concept phase"
"The Woman King was particularly egregious given that in real life she sold her own people into fucking slavery.  And she’s clearly meant to be seen as this heroic African leader; but, and this bears repeating, she sold her own people into slavery.  That’s like wanting to make a feel-good movie about a guy who’s great at target shooting, and deciding to make it about Charles Joseph Whitman."

Meme - "A female-led, diverse sci-fi movie that's very popular (80%|86% RT). Hmmm... this shouldn't be possible according to some. Maybe it has something to do with it being ACTUALLY good?"
"ALIEN: ROMULUS"

Meme - "MGS4 (2008) had female characters that looked just like their models... wonder why that doesn't happen now. I guess the new technology is only capable of making mega jawlines and gross physiques, seems misogynist!"

MGS4 (2008) had female characters that looked just like their models…I wonder why that doesn’t happen now : r/CriticalDrinker - "Because a lot of modern western developers hate beautiful women. They want them to look as ugly as they do. Then they claim that beautiful women do not exist in real life and say: ''you should get out more and meet real women''."
"I don't think they hate beautiful women as much as they dislike men who like beautiful women. It's not women they're trying to change with these choices. They think they can socialize men into liking all types of women."
"They hate everything"
"Themselves most of all."
"The root of all leftism is self-hatred."
"They’re trying to brainwash and mentally condition men into liking unhealthy (“thick”) and unattractive women through “body positivity”. Yet you never see women saying they want a body positive (FAT) man! 🤷‍♂️  They know that most women are overweight (over 60% of ALL women in the US are overweight or obese). If men only wanted young, thin, beautiful women over the high obesity rate of women that are so common in the US and other first world countries, the population would shrink and the economy would collapse."
"The fact that Spider-Man 2 and Fable have characters that kinda look like their models but look a lot more like people that worked on the game says something about how these western devs feel."
"I honestly wonder if they think making all of their actual female characters look like trans women with the Easter Island jawlines and all of that is going to make everyday men somehow be attracted to them lol."

This is fucking horrendous. : r/CriticalDrinker - "Hilarious how she says "even a melanin slider" as if every fucking game with a character creator doesn't let you choose skin color. They're just not pretentious enough to call it a fucking melanin slider."
"Yep this is the insanity of today. Skin colour choices have been in games gor 2 decades already"
"Longer than that. Neverwinter Nights on AOL let you choose skin color and that was like 1995"
"They wouldn’t know that, because they’re not gamers."
""Variety of alien characters"  SJWs: ALL ALIENS HAVE MELANIN"
This is fucking horrendous. : r/CriticalDrinker - "Well there are the trans mutilation options, fairly new. Maybe it's part of the lore that their mythical fantasy characters have a way of crossing the seas of space and time to go to post 2010 America to have cosmetic surgeries."
This is fucking horrendous. : r/CriticalDrinker - "As a tech bro, I can promise you we aren't responsible for this shit. We stay out of video games, they don't pay shit and hire children from college at 1/3 the pay of real jobs.  This is the result."
"They've always hired kids to code and do QA. They didn't always hire Queer Theory grads to design them though."
Woke video games are because left wingers go into making them not for money or even passion for gaming, but to push the left wing agenda

Meme - Learning TheLaw @Mangalawyer: "Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Can I cut off my breasts? Yes
Can I add cellulite? Yes
Can I add vitiligo? Yes
Can I enlarge my chest and have thin hips to reflect my anatomy as a woman? No..You should be ashamed!
That doesn't make any sense. Let's check who the director is... oh
2020: Man. 2021: Transwoman"

Meme - Deborah Tan: "Apparently you can be anything or have anything you want in the character creator except you can't have boobs bigger than a smallish B cup. Not very inclusive. #DragonAgeTheVeilguard #dragonage #fails"
The reality of what it means to "de-objectify women". Clearly women who have breasts bigger than a B cup do not exist

Meme - "New Rainbow Six operative is a disabled woman on a wheelchair with 2 robots."
This would be fine, but you probably don't have an option to kick her off the chair to disable the robots
Comment: "Why is she in tactical gear she doesn't need to move"

Daniel on X - "Imagine your job is writing for a national publication and this is what you turn in. And they publish it"
DEI? More like 'common decency' — and Silicon Valley is saying 'no thanks' | TechCrunch - "I would invite him — and those supporting them — to fuck all the way off. You misunderstand me. You thought I wanted you to fuck only partially the way off. Please, read my lips. I was perfectly clear: Off you fuck. All the way. Remove head from ignorant ass, then fuck all the way off...   <Climbs off soapbox and packs away rapid-dispensing box of expletives.>"
DEI? More like 'common decency' — and Silicon Valley is saying 'no thanks' | TechCrunch - "Editor’s note: This post has been altered to remove its most offensive language; it does not meet our standards of integrity. This post was also sent to subscribers as a newsletter. We apologize to readers for this serious error."
Weird. Why is the side of good so coarse?
As usual, left wingers define the left wing agenda as common decency, and then paint everyone who disagrees as evil

Why farming in UK is predominantly white - and what's being done to increase diversity - "The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is launching a new scholarship scheme to encourage more British students from ethnic minorities to enter the farming sector.  The RAU, one of the leading agricultural institutions in the UK, hopes the two undergraduate scholarships will increase diversity and equality in the industry - which is predominately made up of white workers.  Analysis by Sky News has found that 97.2% of workers in agricultural, forestry and fishing are white, excluding seasonal workers, making it the least diverse job sector in the country... Mr Hassanin supports the RAU's decision to increase diversity at the university level, but says there should not be quotas... "I can speak for my community…they don't want to do it. They're lawyers, doctors, they've gone up in society, why am I going to go back to be a peasant farmer?""
Why isn't there a project to increase diversity in rap music?

US Naval Academy says considering race in admissions helps create a cohesive military - "Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the officer training school should be allowed to continue using race as an admissions factor because prioritizing diversity in the military makes it stronger, more effective and more widely respected... He said diversity among U.S. military leaders reflects core American values, demonstrating that if you work hard and perform well, “regardless of your background, regardless of what you look like, you’ll be put in a position of command and responsibility.”"
There will still be people who claim the military isn't woke
If you get in through racial quotas, that's proof you worked hard and performed well

New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks - "The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program. The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls and low pay. “The American people are rightly concerned that, at a time when our country is facing dangerous and increasing threats throughout the world, the Air Force is focused on recruitment efforts based on arbitrary racial diversity goals — not merit or increasing the force’s lethality,” James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA), told the DCNF. CASA requested records regarding the Air Force’s new officer applicant standards through a federal transparency request in 2023. At the time, the Air Force said it couldn’t find any records... The respective slides in question also explain that the Air Force is either on track or needs to do more to hit racial and gender quotas in the ROTC’s officer applicant pool... In a separate set of documents from as early as 2022, the Air Force outlines its efforts to modify ROTC scholarship programs, which “play an important role in accession and diversity goals.” The Air Force suggests modifying the scholarship models could remove certain “testing barriers” to entry for under-represented groups. The diversity plans extend to the Air Force’s Aim High Flight Academy (AHFA), an aviation scholarship program for high school, ROTC and Air Force Academy students, according to the documents. The Air Force notes that the AFHA applicant pool should be made up of a “minimum” of 60% underrepresented groups, further noting that it must be at least 35% minorities. Like other branches of the military, the Air Force has struggled to keep up with recruiting and retention targets in recent years. The Navy is expected to miss its recruiting goals in 2024; the Marine Corps, Army and Air Force are on on track to meet their goals, although the latter two branches missed their targets in 2022 and 2023... Only approximately 57% of servicemembers or military families polled by the Military Family Advisory Network in 2023 said they’d recommend joining the service, compared to 74% in 2019. Among some of the reasons the respondents wouldn’t recommend service were the politically charged nature of the military, differences and divisions, and low pay, among others. A year-long study from the Arizona State University Center for American Institutions found that the Pentagon has turned into a “vast DEI bureaucracy” in the last four decades, a challenge that has been exacerbated by the Biden-Harris administration. “It’s no surprise that young people are turning away from military service in record numbers… DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training that begins for officers even at the service academies,” Matt Lohmeier, former Space Force commander, said"
Weird. We keep being told that diversity is about levelling the playing field and increasing opportunities, not reducing them

Meme - Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray: "These are your new firefighters. Can you imagine any one of them carrying an unconscious person out of a burning building? DEI is going to get people maimed, if not worse. *3 women, 2 fat*"

Steve McGuire on X - "Asked how he identifies during a DEI session, Patrick Hogarty said “he identifies as an American, that he loves his country, and that he believes it is the greatest country ever founded.” 🇺🇸 Then they cut his position as dean of students for “budgetary reasons.” Now he’s suing."

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "The Biden-Harris Administration has quietly established a DEI apparatus that spans the entire federal government, costs taxpayers billions of dollars, and advances racialism as the state ideology. Announcing a new investigative series in City Journal:"

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "What happens at a university which admits 92% of black applicants with a 3.2 GPA and a 1240 SAT, but only admits 14% of white applicants with those same credentials?
Answer: 37% of black students at the school end up on academic probation, but only 7% of white students do."
"University of Michigan, Affirmative Action and Educational Mismatch (2003-2005)
% Chance of Admit with 3.2 GPA and 1240 SAT
% on Academic Probation
% in Honors Program"
Clearly, mismatch isn't a thing and affirmative action works and the reason so many black and hispanic people are on probation but so few whites and even fewer Asians are is because of racism and white supremacy

Former Google Executive Reaches Settlement with Company Over Firing - "Ryan Olohan previously served as the company’s Managing Director of Food, Beverage, and Restaurants. The Employee Investigations team at Google conducted a review of Olohan’s role and performance and claimed that he “showed favoritism to high performers,” which they claimed was not “inclusive” language. He also made a passing remark about the “walking pace and hustle” of his employees, which the company determined to be an “ableist” comment.  Following his termination, Olohan took the company to court. In his lawsuit, Olohan claimed that he was the victim of sexual harassment by his boss Tiffany Miller, who accused him of “microaggressions” as punishment for rejecting her sexual advances. Google’s Human Resource Business Partner, Jacky Schiestel, ultimately concluded that Olohan was not guilty of any such “microaggressions.”... In the lawsuit, Olohan said that he had been told by Google’s Vice President of Google Consumer, Government, & Entertainment, Adam Stewart, that his team “obviously had too many White guys.” The suit further alleges that if Olohan had not been a White male, the company never would have addressed the “hostile work environment” in question."
Diversity hates meritocracy

Sasheer Zamata Is Bringing Witchy Queer Magic to ‘Agatha All Along’ - "one trend she has noticed since leaving SNL is how often she has been asked to play a lesbian.  “I kept getting cast as queer women,” she tells me, rattling off a long list. “I played a lesbian on Home Economics. I played a lesbian on Woke. I played a lesbian on Tuca & Bertie. A lesbian on Last O.G. I kept getting these roles. And this is before I myself was figuring out my identity. I was like, ’Whoa, what are these casting directors seeing that I’m not seeing?’”  I suggest, tongue firmly in cheek, that Hollywood made her gay.  “That’s what conservatives joke about all the time,” she laughs. “They’re like, ‘Oh my God, they’re turning everyone gay.’ And it happened.”"

Nathan Cofnas on X - "Harvard recently got rid of mandatory DEI statements, and conservatives congratulated themselves for a big victory over wokism. As usual, cons got played. DEI statements have been replaced with "service statements," which have the same function but with plausible deniability."

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