Rupert Lowe MP on X - "It's disgusting that white people are being deliberately excluded from public sector jobs, internships or opportunities. Racism shouldn't be tolerated just because it's white people on the receiving end. Whoever is signing off this poison needs to be sacked. I am investigating."
Charlie Bentley-Astor on X - "At 17 years old, I gave up on becoming an actor despite then being in one of the best drama schools in the UK because 85% of the casting calls my agent received stipulated, "Caucasian's need not apply." Not "Black actors wanted" or "Latin actors wanted" but "Caucasian's need not apply." That is to say "All auditions welcome except from white people." I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere, even if I could hone my skill to a competitive level. I knew then that the stories of the near future were not going to be about the white working class or ancient Britons or knights and their princesses. Being an actor is the first job I ever wanted - from 4 years old I did nothing else. I switched for 10 years to directing. But the tide has risen higher still and I find all grants and opportunities exclusively for "BAME people." I am good at what I do. I have won awards and worked at one of the best theatres in the country. I offer insight and poetic depth with my skill. But I am white and say that men are not women and therefore merit does not enter into the calculation."
Left wingers will continue to pretend that this isn't happening, that white people aren't handicapped by DEI policies
End Wokeness on X - "Senior Vice President at Disney: "There's no way we're hiring a white male" Stop funding companies that hate you. #BoycottDisney. Pass it on."
Disney Senior VP Takes “Leave of Absence" After Being Caught Saying “There's No Way We're Hiring a White Male" - "O’Keefe sent over one of his spies, on a mock date with Disney Senior VP Michael Giordano, who can be seen on camera telling the secret female reporter that Disney purposely doesn’t hire white male writers, and actors solely on the basis of the color of their skin... I’m hearing that Giordano, who just deleted his LinkedIn account, has been told by Disney to take a “leave of absence” after this video came out. I’d be shocked if they don’t just quietly fire him for these comments. One key moment in the video has Giordano telling the undercover reporter that one black candidate was turned down at Disney for not appearing sufficiently black — they were “half black”... This isn’t surprising. Christian Toto led me to a Film Threat investigative report which had former and current Disney employees spilling the beans about the company’s plans to chase away veteran animators in favor of its “diversity-at-all-costs” plan. The term, “Pale and Male is Stale” became an unofficial catchphrase behind the scenes, according to Film Threat."
The left wing cope is that the video cannot be trusted because it is "deceptively edited"
Is Hollywood snubbing White men? A new lawsuit claims so - "Brian Beneker, a script coordinator for the television show SEAL Team, has filed a lawsuit against CBS Studios and its parent company Paramount, alleging discrimination through the network’s diversity quotas. Beneker, who has been a script coordinator since 2017, has also written some episodes for the show in 2019. He has also written the eighth episode of the current season, which is also the shows final one. In his suit, he alleges that that he was repeatedly denied a staff writer job after the implementation of an “illegal policy of race and sex balancing” that promoted the hiring of “less qualified applicants who were members of more preferred groups,” namely those who identify as minorities, LGBTQ or women. Through his legal action, he seeks at least $500,000, as well as a court order making him a full-time producer on the series and barring the further use of discriminatory hiring practices. In his complaint, Beneker details instances when he was passed over for staff writing positions in favour of Black or women, who, in his opinion, were less experienced than he was and had no writing credits. For instance, in 2019, Beneker was passed up for a Black writer. When he asked his senior about it, he was informed that CBS had diversity quotas for their writers’ room and they had to be fulfilled. He adds that since 2020, the show has hired six additional writers, all female. “During Season 6, approximately the summer of 2022, two female writer’s assistants, without any writing credits, were hired as staff writers,” states the complaint. “The first of these two hires was black. The second identified as lesbian.” Beneker in his lawsuit states that these hiring practises undertaken by CBS has “created a situation where heterosexual, white men need ‘extra’ qualifications to be hired as staff writers when compared to their nonwhite, LGBTQ, or female peers.”... In 2016, the #HollywoodSoWhite became one of the most talked about topics, with many arguing that the entertainment industry suffered from an inclusion crisis. A report had revealed that of the 109 films and 305 television and digital series released in 2014, only 28 per cent of all speaking characters were people of colour. In reaction, in 2020, CBS announced that its slate of reality shows — such as Survivor, Big Brother and Love Island — would become more diverse. At the time, CBS said that 50 per cent of its casts for its unscripted shows must be Black, Indigenous or People of Colour (BIPOC). Moreover, it said that it would commit at least 25 per cent of its annual unscripted development budget must go towards creators and producers that are BIPOC. Later, in 2022, George Cheeks, CBS Entertainment Group’s CEO, had said that the network was setting a goal that all writers’ rooms on primetime series would have at least 40 per cent of minorities. In fact, for this year’s Oscars, new rules came into being under which for a movie to be eligible for Best Picture, it must meet two of four new diversity standards. However, many view such diversity programs or quotas as simply being too ‘woke’. Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss in a PBS interview questioned Oscars’ inclusivity changes. “It’s an art. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is,” Dreyfuss said. “You have to let life be life. I’m sorry, I don’t think there is a minority or majority in the country that has to be catered to like that.”... The timing of Beneker’s lawsuit is also very interesting. It comes after the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at colleges and universities in June 2023. In the matter of Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard, the top court had said, “The Harvard and University of North Carolina admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.” This ruling also led to 13 Republican Attorneys General writing letters to Fortune 100 companies, warning them that several of their efforts to boost diversity are discriminatory."
Left wingers demand quotas for "minorities" and at the same time mock those who point out there're quotas. But they love to gaslight
Meme - God Save Great Britain @GSGB01: "Despite what the police say, seeing armed police patrolling at Christmas fairs is not normal and we should NOT have to live like this. Do you agree?"
"Before Diversity: *Unarmed policeman*
After Diversity: *Policeman with bulletproof vest and guns*"
Meme - "Miss France *okay-looking black woman*
Runner Up *gorgeous white woman*"
Comment (elsewhere): "I'm as racist as it gets, but I can acknowledge there are some beautiful black women I would commit the "chocolate sin" with. This black broad is not it, the actual French chick is way hotter and it's not even close. The words "humiliation ritual" are overused, but this is definitely an example of that phrase. It's exceedingly obvious that the winner is an affirmative action/DEI pick. Going with an actually hot black woman defeats the purpose, as the point is to be offensive and grotesque as possible to the French people."
Jacob Geller— Bluesky - "Fascinating video on Steam trends, especially these statistics- of all the games released in Steam in 2024, just 2.5% had the "LBGTQ+" tag and 7% had the "female protagonist" tag. This is supposedly the political trend that's overwhelming and destroying gaming."
Sampling issues aside (I haven't seen people say that indie games are full of DEI), these are the same people who keep talking about Charlottesville claiming it proves that "Nazis" are everywhere, even though it was in 2017 and only one person died
Selaphiella— Bluesky - "I watched the video breaking down Steam's tags recently and saw some conversations about how "female protagonist" only made up around 7% of all games. I wanted to try and see how well this reflects actual games, so I created this graph based on Steam's top 250 rated titles."
31.6% had male protagonists, 14.4% had female ones, 8.4% had non-binary/genderless ones and 6.8% had ones with an ambiguous gender. This proves the point that this is being shoved in people's faces
Thread by @epkaufm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Authors of a pro-DEI paper published in Nature and reported in Science made critical errors which nullify their findings. Not only did they bury inconvenient findings, they reported junk results. First, they found that Black and Hispanic scholars have far fewer cited published works than White and Asian scholars but did not report this. Women are also less productive than men. What we see is that the race gap is found mainly among men (decline slope of blue line), with little difference between races among female scholars (flat red line). This model controls for discipline and years in academia. Their other striking finding is that White and Asian candidates appear to be discriminated against in being promoted to full professor. They are 10-20 points less likely than Blacks/Hispanics to get promoted to professor. This gets a brief mention but is largely hidden. The finding they tout, that among less productive scholars Blacks and Hispanics are discriminated against, is based on flawed data. The authors used a dataset in which 1571 individuals were inflated to 9032 by multiplying by the number of academic letters written for them. Using only 1571 individuals results in the statistical significance of their headline finding disappearing. Had they done the analysis properly, the paper would not have been published. But researchers and publications lapped it all up without question since it accorded with their priors."
i/o on X - "The study's authors hid the fact that:
— White and Asian academics publish more than black and Hispanic ones
— Men are more productive than women
— Whites and Asians are discriminated against in promotions
And the author's data and statistical methods were flawed."
Junk Science is being used to Prop up DEI - "Whereas I had thought the authors of a paper claiming discrimination against minority scholars in academia were only guilty of burying their key findings while touting weak results, it now looks like their results are garbage: a result of sloppiness, mendacity, or both. This tells us a great deal about the knowledge production system in the social sciences, and how it systematically skews what experts consider to be the ‘truth’ and ‘settled science’. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is on the ropes these days. This is a big problem for institutions, such as most elite universities or Science magazine, that have invested deeply in this belief system. One way to rescue the enterprise is to tout new scientific results that buttress the claim that minorities and women are discriminated against in academia. Ergo the need for affirmative action. Now the woke popular science magazine Science is trumpeting a new academic paper in the equally woke Nature Human Behaviour as a riposte to the naysayers. ‘Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process,’ screams the headline. The paper’s authors claim Black and Hispanic academics with the same track record are discriminated against when they come up for tenure and promotion. But their data, if anything, points to anti-White/Asian bias, propping up weak results while covering up inconvenient but powerful findings... The term ‘p-hacking’ is used to describe quantitative analysis that tortures the data to find a significant finding that can be spun to support one’s priors. Consider what the authors did: First, they did not pre-register the hypothesis they were going to test, allowing them to flex their hypothesis to match what they could mine from the data using a trial-and-error approach. Second, they downplayed their strongest findings because these did not fit the narrative... They jumped at the results they wanted and got careless. Reviewers eagerly lapped it up. Science magazine ran with it. Inconvenient findings got buried. This is how science works when it gets near anything related to the holy DEI trinity of race, gender and sexuality. Add one more paper to the mountain of junk that makes up the replication crisis in the social sciences. Most academic proponents of DEI, or Social Justice, rely on pseudo-conspiratorial meta-theories like critical race theory or flabby qualitative methods like ‘auto-ethnography’ (a.k.a. contemplating one’s navel) to buttress their knowledge claims. No wonder James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian were able to publish so many hoax papers in grievance studies journals merely by parroting feminist and critical race theory buzzords. However, laundering woke ideas enough to sell them to organizations requires at least some scientific patina. Even a thin quantitative foundation can be enough to backstop what Doug Stokes terms the grievance-industrial complex, with its well-remunerated institutional programme of radical indoctrination and race or sex discrimination. We’ve seen this with claims of sex discrimination in academia, which have failed to replicate, and with shoddy arguments that diversity improves corporate performance. Rigorous and high-powered studies which come to the wrong conclusions go uncited while junk papers like this one grab the limelight and make into diversity training workshops."
Equity is about everyone ending up at the same place, so Black, Hispanic and female scholars publishing less than White, Asian and male ones doesn't mean they should be promoted less
Meme - Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan: "30 years ago a black man was the lead in a Star Trek show that ran 7 seasons, got 31 Emmy nominations, and was one of the most acclaimed series in the franchise. No one was outraged. No one boycotted. No one cared. People who loved this show back then are called "toxic fans" today"
The cope is that this shows how hypocritical "bigots" are, because what is happening today is exactly the same as in the past and they didn't object then, and the only reason they're objecting now is they were told to be offended, because there is totally no difference between race-blind casting and shoving "minorities" into as many places as possible and demonising white men
James Bond producers nixed Amazon's 'woke' female 007 idea - "The family that controls the James Bond movie franchise reportedly refuses to give Amazon the go-ahead to make another film due to serious disagreements over the direction of the series — including one proposal for a TV spinoff centered on a female 007. Barbara Broccoli — the 64-year-old daughter of the late Queens native Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the film producer who acquired the rights to the famed spy created by British novelist Ian Fleming — has been at odds with Amazon execs ever since the e-retail giant acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for $8.5 billion in March 2022, according to the Wall Street Journal. Her dissatisfaction with Amazon has reached the point where she is willing to hold the film “hostage” and delay the release of a new Bond sequel, the Journal reported. “These people are f–king idiots,” Broccoli reportedly told friends when describing executives at Amazon. There hasn’t been a Bond film in three years, one of the longest dry spells since the franchise was launched with “Dr. No” in 1962. Broccoli maintains an iron grip on 007, approving everything from scripts to who will be the next Bond after Daniel Craig hung up the famed tuxedo in the last film, “No Time to Die.” Amazon executives have proposed a number of ideas to cash in on the Bond brand for its Prime Video service, including a spinoff featuring Miss Moneypenny, the secretary of MI6 spy chief M. There was even talk of casting a female to play the next 007, as well as more diverse options that would include gay or black leading men. Broccoli shot down the idea of a female Bond, though she’s not opposed to having a gay or nonwhite actor star in the role, according to the Journal. She does insist that whoever fills his shoes is a Brit... Broccoli and Wilson are also said to be upset that they have had a difficult time landing a meeting with senior Amazon executives — a far cry from the days when MGM head honchos were readily accessible to them, according to the Journal... Since Amazon bought MGM, the company has produced just one Bond-related product — a reality television show titled “007: Road to a Million” where teams compete in spy-themed challenges... A male spy who uses violence to achieve his aims while being a womanizer is apparently too much for some Amazon employees, one of which is reported to have said during a strategy meeting: “I have to be honest. I don’t think James Bond is a hero.”"
Jeff Bezos Wanted Broccoli Gone After She Called Amazon Execs 'Idiots' - "Broccoli is quoted as telling her personal friends that Amazon executives were “fucking idiots” amid dealings with the Bond franchise. As THR now stated, Bezos “read her quote in the Journal and got on the phone and said, ‘I don’t care what it costs, get rid of her,'” according to an unnamed insider. The outlet further included how Broccoli bristled when Amazon content chief Jennifer Salke referred to Bond films as “content,” and Broccoli’s half-brother Michael G. Wilson (who also steered the Bond franchise for decades) was iced out of meetings by Amazon executives... Amazon is also looking to capitalize on the IP with spin-offs, like UK TV professional Aaron McGahon speculated in a Marvel Studios-esque move. Sources close to the franchise claimed to THR that Amazon approached the Broccolis with “pitches for a TV series based on Moneypenny, the MI6 secretary […] as well as a show about Bond CIA buddy Felix Leiter, and maybe even something involving a female 007.” Yet, “predictably, Broccoli and Wilson weren’t interested.” ... Amazon may even have trouble finding one filmmaker to helm a franchise installment, let alone multiple. Osgood Perkins recently shut down the idea of directing a Bond film, simply saying on Reddit, “No, because fuck Jeff Bezos.”"
James Bond "To Stay British, Male Under Amazon Control" - report - "James Bond – now under the creative control of Amazon Studios following its buy-out of producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson – will remain a man and British (or the Commonwealth), according to UK media."
Meme - saila @sailaunderscore: "Why skiing is a high-trust society is left as an exercise for the reader."
Dissproportionately @dissproportion: "Amazing how you can still walk up to any ski hill and get free skis."
Top Oregon official put on leave for allegedly prioritizing 'qualified' job candidates over 'gender identity' - "A top Oregon state official has been put on administrative leave after a pink-haired, DEI-obsessed subordinate complained he was making hiring decisions based on qualifications instead of personal identity considerations, according to a report. Mike Shaw, who until recently served as the Oregon Department of Forestry’s second-in-command, was put on blast by Megan Donecker, the department’s former DEI strategy officer, for looking “beyond gender and identity in hiring, seeking only candidates most qualified for the job,” OregonLive reported... Shaw first drew Donecker’s ire when he dared suggest the agency — which has over 1,400 employees and a biennial budget over $577 million — take a measured approach to DEI initiatives, likening plunging into them headlong to driving too fast on “an icy road.”... Oregon State Forester Cal Mukumoto — who heads the department — said, “Providing a safe, diverse and inclusive workplace is a shared core value and priority of both the department and the Board of Forestry.” Donecker, who has bright pink hair and numerous tattoos, has since left the department and has landed a new job as a “DEI consultant,” according to Daily Mail. She now reportedly describes herself as “an accomplice to marginalized communities.” Oregon has been at the forefront of implementing sweeping DEI initiatives following the 2020 murder of George Floyd and subsequent civil unrest, which saw Portland engulfed in chaotic and often violent riots for more than 100 days. However, the enthusiasm for such efforts appears to be on the decline. Clackamas County announced in January that it had started to unwind its $830,000-per-year DEI office, calling it an “unnecessary expense” which “only foments friction.”"
Weird. We keep being told that "minorities" do not benefit from DEI and affirmative action, which only exist to level the playing field, but now someone is under investigation for not hiring based on minority identity
Meme - Rachel Hurley: "Misogyny 101. This is what DEI protected women from."
"Readers added context: This is photoshopped. The original photo can be found here:"
"AOC would be hot if she didn't open her mouth and speak"
Odd. Why is she claiming that DEI is meant to protect women from jokes, rather than to ensure non-straight white cis men can get hired?
Meme - Frank AnGremlins 2: The New B... @FrankAngones: "No, but really, look at this cocky teenage Latina coming to destroy your fragile ego with a look. I love this image so much. #DuckTales #DarkwingDuck #Gosalyn"
Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum: "I agree that it's one of the worst tweets ever, but I can't seem to articulate precisely why beyond it having some sort of underlying creepiness combined with soyboyism. Give me your analysis."
BWKing @FogTrials97770: "It's because of how utterly pointless it is. It's everything the past decade of woke has been rolled all into one."
South Bend sued for 'discriminatory' police applicant tests - "The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the City of South Bend, alleging discrimination against Black and female entry-level police department applicants. The lawsuit, filed Friday, claims that by administering written tests that "disproportionately excludes African-American applicants" and physical tests that exclude female applicants, the city is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protects employees and job applicants from job discrimination. Since at least 2016, the lawsuit says, the South Bend Police Department has used a pass/fail component to screen candidates. In the selection process, applicants must perform six physical activities. Female applicants have passed at a lower rate than male applicants, the complaint said. Since 2019, more than 83% of male applicants passed the physical fitness test, while more than 47% of females passed... According to the complaint, the written tests consists of multiple-choice questions in areas including "observe and accurately describe events and objects" and "complete routine forms." Since 2016, 62% of African American applicants passed the written exam, compared to 84% of white applicants... The DOJ's lawsuit ignores the city's obligation to comply with state laws, they said. The written test, which the city said they regularly evaluate to make sure it's fair and non-biased, is similar to tests conducted at other Indiana police departments, including Indiana State Police. Additionally, the physical fitness test is consistent with standards set by the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, the release said."
DEI is literally about lowering standards. Ensuring employees are competent is discriminatory
N.C. settles lawsuit over unintentionally discriminatory firefighter test - "Durham will pay nearly $1 million to 16 African Americans rejected from becoming firefighters after a test used to weed out job candidates was found to be unintentionally discriminatory. The city announced on Tuesday that it had settled a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that accused the Durham Fire Department of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At issue was a written test administered since 2015 to screen applicants for entry-level firefighter jobs in Durham. The DOJ found that African Americans disproportionately failed the test when compared to white applicants, and were therefore prevented from getting interviews, despite the test not actually being related to the job."
The Comprehensive Examination Battery involves reading comprehension about fire-related material, mathematical calculations about firefighting-related tasks like how many lengths of hose you need, questions assessing how you would deal with casualties, colleagues and work problems, questions on English ability (firefighters need to write incident reports) and map reading (even with GPS, map reading skills aid navigation, especially if the GPS is broken). Clearly, removing such a test will have no impact on the ability of firefighters who get in
Representation for minorities in western gaming is not necessary : r/KotakuInAction - "The regressive left loves to complain about lack of representation. But, there is already a lot of representation from non-western studios. Chinese studios are great at representing chinese. South korean studios are great at representing koreans. Japanese studios are great at representing japanese. Czech studios are great at representing czechs. Polish studios are great at representing polish. Ukrainian studios are great at representing ukrainians. Russian studios are great at representing russians. As a minority, I do not feel I need representation from western studios, because there are already non-western studios that represent me."
"That's the thing. They don't want a diverse body of work. They want diversity in every single piece of work. There are games and manga targeted at girls, there are games and manga targeting boys. But they want to every single piece of work represent everybody. In the end representing nobody."
"They want every single piece of work to represent their world view, if the minorities they claim to care for refuse, they will turn on them or attack them."
Representation for minorities in western gaming is not necessary : r/KotakuInAction - "True, lol. If games were required to represent us accurately, I guess most main characters would be fat, lazy pieces of shit. I'm with you, let's do a character that is fun, not one that slavishly looks like me."
Representation for minorities in western gaming is not necessary : r/KotakuInAction - "Yea I have adhd and I played veilguard recently where a character was clearly modelled off adhd (and googling confirmed it was a writer self-insert) and all it did was piss me off and make me feel like a caricature. Games are supposed to be the escape from that every day issue."
"It's that Asian elf right? Fuck man, as an Asian I hate how they've made elves multicultural. Elves are a western creation that are supposed to embody angelic like beings, why the fuck would they be squint-eyed and or melanin deprived?? Doesn't make sense"
"Asian culture have fox spirits and deer spirits which are way cooler than asian elves."
PayPal accused of racial bias against Asian Americans in funding program - "PayPal (PYPL.O) , opens new tab has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday's complaint by Nisha Desai , opens new tab and her New York-based venture capital firm Andav Capital is part of a growing push among some conservatives to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in corporate America... Desai accused PayPal of violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bars racial bias in contracting; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars federal funds recipients from allowing racial discrimination, and New York state and city human rights laws. She is seeking unspecified damages and to ban PayPal from considering race and ethnicity in its investment program. Desai sued after the federal appeals court in Manhattan said last March that the advocacy group Do No Harm lacked standing to pursue a similar case against drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) , opens new tab over a fellowship program for Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, because it did not identify a member who was harmed."
