Meme - The Heretical Liberal @Rob_ThaBuilder: ""I'm a genderqueer, neurodivergent person of mixed-heritage" says the basic white guy who has figured out the grift.
1) Claim you have whatever current non-falsifiable thing is trending in the Oppression discourse
2) Apply for jobs that require these fictitious "marginalized" groups
3) profit!"
Rachel Bosenterfer @RachelKQ184...: "As a Genderqueer, neurodivergent person of mixed-heritage, Luke is a passionate advocate for better inclusion practices within workplaces and the broader industry, as well as proactively supporting and mentoring those from underrepresented backgrounds."
"Luke Seraphin Appointed as Head of Inclusion at Sky"
Meme - Dia @dia: "out of all the reasons for adopting a healthier lifestyle didn't think any of them would be "to avoid being murdered by DE hires at the operating table""
The Dean of UCLA Medical School Says It Does Not Discriminate Based on Race. His Own Research Center Runs a Minorities-Only Fellowship. - "The University of California, Los Angeles, medical school was hit last week with whistleblower allegations that its admissions office has for years discriminated on the basis of race, in violation of California law, by holding black and Latino applicants to lower standards than their white and Asian counterparts. The allegations triggered an email message from the dean of the medical school, Steven Dubinett, who denied the claims and said that students and faculty "are held to the highest standards of academic excellence." He subsequently told an obscure Los Angeles Times opinion columnist that the allegations, published in the Washington Free Beacon, are "fact-free." Hiring and admissions decisions, he wrote in his message last week, are "based on merit," not race, "in a process consistent with state and federal law." But Dubinett himself directs a center within the medical school, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, that houses a race-based fellowship experts say is illegal. Participants in the "iDIVERSE" program "must be" black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, LGBT, or a woman, according to screenshots of a now-deleted webpage obtained by the Free Beacon. Fellows research ways to increase diversity in clinical trials as part of a study funded by Pfizer, the American Heart Association, and Gates Ventures, the personal LLC of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The website indicates that the deadline to apply to the program, which has existed for two years, was March 1. "This is obviously illegal," said Adam Mortara, the lead trial lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions in its lawsuit against Harvard, which led to the Supreme Court decision last year that outlawed affirmative action. "Every time we sue a company or institution for doing this, they settle by ending the program." Dubinett and UCLA medical school did not respond to requests for comment. The program is an awkward albatross for a school that spent Memorial Day weekend doing damage control after a Free Beacon report showed that record numbers of UCLA medical students are failing basic tests of clinical knowledge—in part, admissions officers said, because standards have been lowered by affirmative action. On Saturday, a fourth-year student posted data on X, formerly Twitter, that he claimed had been released internally to refute that report. Though the new data showed that students did better on a recent round of tests, known as shelf exams, than some other cohorts, UCLA has not addressed the rise in failure rates over time or the fact that nearly a quarter of students in the class of 2025 failed three or more shelf exams. Nor has it explained how the percentage of Asian matriculants shrunk by almost 50 percent since 2018, with most of the drop occurring after a new dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero was hired in 2020. That decline coincided with a sharp increase in the number of students who come from "medically under-served" areas or identify as "disadvantaged"—indicators that admissions officials say are being used as proxies for race. Matriculants from under-served areas nearly doubled as a percentage of the incoming class after Lucero took the helm in 2020, rising steadily from 34 to 56 percent of first-year students over four years, per data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The number of first-year students indicating disadvantage likewise rose by nearly 60 percent, from 42 percent in 2020 to 67 percent in 2023. No other elite medical school has come close to these numbers... While the trends don’t provide proof of discrimination, they are consistent with the accounts of racial gerrymandering from UCLA admissions officers. Lucero has allegedly told officials that the class should reflect the "diversity" of California, where racial preferences have been illegal since 1996, and has attacked those who raise concerns about minority candidates with low test scores. She even made the entire admissions committee sit through a two-hour presentation on Native American history after a Native American applicant was rejected, three sources said. Together with the iDIVERSE fellowship, which launched in 2022 and involves partnerships with other institutions, the accounts paint a picture of a medical school suffused with racial preferences and determined to skirt civil rights law by any means necessary. They come as the medical school is reviewing its entire first-year curriculum in the wake of a separate Free Beacon report on a required course, "Structural Racism and Health Equity," in which students learn that weight loss is a "hopeless endeavor." That course also hosted a guest speaker, Lisa Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as "justice" and led students in chants of "free, free Palestine." Days later, two residents in the medical school’s psychiatry program delivered a talk that glorified self-immolation as a form of "resistance" in the context of the Israel-Palestinian conflict."
Meme - LearningTheLaw @Mangalawyer: "Concord is a new progressive and modern shooter for Pc & Playstation. It features five black women, four aliens, three robots, and one white man. It's incredibly diverse and non-heteronormative. Plus, it has pronouns. Are you excited? 😆"
Thread by @mmjukic on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The modern economy runs on intellectual dark matter that is rapidly aging, retiring, or dying, and going unreplaced and unsucceeded. As a result, the modern economy will slowly begin to fail for reasons that will seem magical, incomprehensible, or impossible to ascertain. I think Boeing is a clear case of this happening, in its early stages. Absent reform that is likely too difficult to pull off, we are just waiting for a major disaster and, then, the slow realization that nobody knows how to prevent the next one. The strongest force counteracting this trend is the development of new traditions of knowledge and functional economic institutions coming from Silicon Valley types and China, who are both learning everything all over again, the hard way, starting from the laws of physics. The so-called "competence crisis" is actually just a sub-category of a wider succession crisis. What goes unremarked upon is how many of the "diversity hires" are young and how many of the retiring outgoing hires are old. And they don't apprentice! Silicon Valley's attempts to start building hardware rather than software are perhaps a good thing not because they will result in reindustrialization of America—which is a political and civilizational problem—but because they will result in maintaining technical knowledge. If Boeing is representative of the wider U.S. economy, the U.S. economy is doing the equivalent of forcibly retiring your experts in order to hire novices who are then told to start from scratch, on a smaller budget. This is a recipe for destroying intellectual dark matter. I think European organizations will stay functional longer than U.S. ones because of, ironically, all the anti-business bureaucracy and regulation that prevents people from being fired or factories from being shut down. Hence I'm more positive on Airbus: Silicon Valley live players won't be able to creatively destroy the entire modern industrial economy and rebuild it from scratch. First, there aren't enough of them. Elon Musk already works five jobs! Second, there aren't enough workers to organize. Just college degree-holders. You can neither innovate nor regulate your way to maintaining a modern industrial economy. You actually just need to maintain it by ensuring power and knowledge succession. If this has already failed, you need to directly install competent reformers and live players, by fiat."
Meme - "Well yeah you can't leave anything in your car or leave your garage door open for 30 minutes and there's stabbings all the time but have you had an authentic street taco?"
DEI bosses ban Thor mural from Washington school as racist and sexist - "Diversity bosses in Washington state accused a student council of promoting white supremacy for suggesting a mural of hammer-wielding Norse god Thor could represent their school team. Students at Mountain View High School in Vancouver offered a mural of the god - whose name translates as 'thunder' - to decorate a wall in a newly renovated building as their senior gift. Its team is nicknamed 'The Thunders' and there is already a Thor statue in the school's main entrance. But the AI image they came up with horrified the district's equity office which demanded the god be removed or accompanied by women and people of color. 'They had an issue with the image not being racially and gender inclusive, as well as upholding an image of pure colonization, white power, white supremacy and even going as far as to say that it was alluding to racist anti-black imagery in the south,' student council member Tara told KTTH. 'We were just essentially told that we will maybe understand their perspective when we're in our 40s and have more life experiences like they do.' Authorities at the school near the Columbia River have embraced its 'thunder' identity, running a Thunder Success Academy, a Thunder Crew, and Thunder Mentors... Council member Ava said they were told that 'without context, our image could be taken the wrong way,' suggesting it could promote white supremacy. The students were told to be 'mindful that the image, despite it not being problematic is something that could grow to be controversial'. Tara said it was a 'very uncomfortable position for a bunch of high school students to be put in'. 'Realistically, as a student, if I'm walking down the hallway, and I see this image up on the wall, that's not going to be the first thing that comes to my mind,' Tara added. 'The first thing is going to be like, 'This is my school mascot on the wall. And it looks pretty cool'.' 'We find it extremely disturbing that those who benefit from white privilege would utilize the ideals of equity to silence a predominantly female, ethnically and racially diverse, democratically elected body for daring to speak truth to power. She said the suggestion that adding women and people of color to the image of the Norse god would be ludicrous 'nothing to do with school'. 'It was very obvious that if we put something like that up, it would be very obvious the entire student body and anyone that knows anything about Mountain View that it was just to fulfill a diversity quota,' she added."
An image of a white person is racist and anti-black. It's not okay to be white, after all
Jamie Sarkonak: Finally some academic pushback to DEI nonsense - "about 40 Canadian university professors have recommended to the House of Commons that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in federally funded research be abolished. Such policies have multiplied within the three agencies responsible for funding research, known collectively as the Tri-Council, since the Liberals took office. “These policies disproportionately punish small institutions, are not supported by evidence, employ flawed metrics with no end goal, and are unpopular with the public who funds the research,” they wrote in a brief filed to the House science committee on May 24... the head of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which oversees the racial-quota-bound Canada Research Chairs Program, told the committee that he has no plans to stop identity-based hiring, even though its quota for non-white researchers has been surpassed. The rest of the quotas — Indigenous, disabled and women — are close to being met. Canada Research Chair openings continue to exclude white applicants, now to the puzzlement of international onlookers like Elon Musk . Aside from the Canada Research Chairs, other federally funded research initiatives have been bogged down with diversity requirements at the direction of the Liberal government : some undergraduate funding programs have recently been restricted to Black applicants only. Researchers are asked to disclose their diversity status (i.e., whether they are members of preferred groups), and sometimes, they are required to file diversity statements with their grant applications. This has all been very costly, particularly for small institutions, our 40 academics point out. They cited a recent parliamentary brief by the Alliance of Canadian Comprehensive Research Universities, representing about 40 institutions, which claims that “costs continue to increase with new compliance requirements announced by the (Tri-Council) such as for EDI, Research Data Management and most recently Research Security.” Federal research agencies have been requiring more and more reams of demographic data to be collected, stretching the administrative capacity of medium and small institutions. Another brief by the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières revealed similar concerns: “Our researchers are investing significant energy into looking at EDI and implementing measures that promote inclusion of persons, openness to diversity and equity of opportunity.” Another problem the researchers point out is the lack of evidence to show that DEI works. One research review by one of the authors found that it’s largely ineffective — or worse, counterproductive — at accomplishing its goals. The signees criticized the research agencies for asserting that “the evidence is clear” in showing that DEI strengthens science and engineering research. “Unfortunately, citations for such statements — to the extent that they exist at all — only link to other Tri-Council web pages that do not appear to address the foundational claim that EDI improves research,” they countered. The brief also opposed the newly popular practice among funding agencies and universities of requiring DEI statements to be submitted in applications for grants and jobs, in addition to cover letters and CVs. “This places principled researchers who hold classically liberal values — such as race neutral evaluation of individuals based on merit — in a difficult predicament: they either must lie to receive funding, or act based on conscience and forego research funding,” reads the brief. Of course, this brief doesn’t represent the whole of academia... It’s significant, though, that a critical mass of DEI dissidents has formed, and is now organizing counter-arguments to present to the country’s halls of leadership. Even just a few years ago, resistance was limited to a few bold individuals who spoke up on their own. Canadian historian Frédéric Bastien, a white man, said he was disqualified from a prestigious Canada Research Chair position at Laval University due to his ethnicity and sex. Bastien filed human rights complaints on the matter, but he died in 2023, which would have put an end to the proceedings. In 2021, chemistry professor Patanjali Kambhampati of McGill University said he had been denied two federal grants because he declared in his forms that he would only hire on merit — not identity... At Tri-Council headquarters, there is little appetite for moderation when it comes to demographic favouritism, and one brief to Parliament probably won’t change the minds of the DEI-faithful. But that may change. As their anti-intellectual, discriminatory practices are exposed, public research funders will need to change course to preserve their reputation. Plus, if the reins change hands in Ottawa, so too should those of the research agencies"
Danielle Smith is the antidote to Trudeau's DEI agenda in universities - "The Liberal government has infused its social policy goals into funding for academic research for years — but to many progressives, that’s all fine and good. The real problem, they’ll tell you, is the premier who noticed it: Danielle Smith. To push back at the federal encroachment into all things provincial — universities, yes, but also municipalities, health, schools, pharmacare and daycare — Smith’s government has tabled Bill 18, the provincial priorities act. The law would make the provincial government the final authority on all agreements between “provincial entities” and the feds... Progressive academics and commentators were quickly set abuzz. The University of Alberta professors’ association complained that the bill “represents the overt politicization of research” and insisted that “grant funding should always be free of political interference.” The Globe and Mail’s Gary Mason scoffed at Smith’s suspicions and puffed that funding decisions are made by “impartial, third-party committees made up of academics and others.” More spectacular was the “fact check” by two U of A PhD students, who tallied up the funds that went to disciplines that are “often mischaracterized by conservatives as liberal or left-leaning” (such as sociology, social work and criminology) and those that don’t focus on social justice (such as business, psychology, education and fine arts). “Left-leaning” disciplines got less money overall, so the students concluded that there was “simply no factual basis to suggest that federal agencies favour liberal or leftist research.” They overlooked, however, the fact that social justice-themed grants are not limited to “left-leaning” disciplines. Perhaps they’re naive, perhaps they’re wilfully blind — or perhaps they’re ideologically nose-blind to a set of Liberal ideals that have permeated so thoroughly they feel natural. Either way, it’s Smith who’s correct. Federal spending on research and training amounts to roughly $3 billion per year, divided between the social sciences, the natural sciences and the health sciences, and that money can come with strings attached. All universities for example, are often barred from hiring white, or male, or both, academics for positions funded by the prestigious Canada Research Chairs Program. This is because the federal science minister in 2019, Kirsty Duncan, signed off on a deal that confined the program to rigid diversity quotas... Duncan also granted $10 million in 2019 to universities to develop and implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, plans and training (which, mind you, can actually increase prejudice). The Liberal budget indicated similar pressure... Navdeep Bains, the innovation, science and economic development minister, was asked in his 2019 mandate letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to promote DEI and “create academic research grants for studies on race, diversity and gender in Canada.” Speaking to Carleton University the next year, he explained that he aimed for universities — which are in provincial jurisdiction — to undergo “meaningful change” in “three to five years.” “We need to see significant changes in how this money is being deployed and the way we’re creating diversity in our ecosystem,” he said. “If we don’t see the desired outcomes then we’re going to re-evaluate our programming and we’re going to be more aggressive with universities.” A similar direction was issued when Bains was replaced by François-Philippe Champagne in 2021. This time, the mandate letter instructed the minister to create Black and Indigenous equity targets for “federally-funded scientific research delivered through the granting councils.” By directing identity politics to be worked into grant-giving and elbowing researchers towards a particular school of thought, the Liberals have played a strong role in shaping the academic ecosystem, even though it resides largely in provincial jurisdiction. This attitude runs counter to the beliefs of most Canadians who prefer colourblind rules to colour-conscious ones by a 70 to 30 margin. Nowadays, when applying for funding, scientists and engineers are encouraged to consider “privileges and power imbalances” and intersectional “diversity factors” in their research design and research teams — that is, progressive concepts rooted in the belief that systemic discrimination infects all western institutions. Writing in February for the Toronto Sun, Wilfrid Laurier University biochemistry professor Geoff Horsman explained how the “tripwires” work in practice: “A stated commitment to colourblind evaluation of students will get your grant rejected. As another example, my colleagues considered (a DEI) statement deficient because the applicant believed in holding all students to a high standard.” His frustrated takeaway? Don’t express classically liberal or conservative values, and “if you believe in merit and competency, shut up.”... New DEI-focused social science grants have also been added in recent years which, upon review by University of Guelph political scientist Dan Snow, “(denote) the clearest shift yet towards more activist priorities in federal research grant funding.” Meanwhile, the narrow, racially-targeted initiatives grow. The Liberals gave the granting agencies funding for a Black-only program in the 2022 budget. And at present, federally-funded undergraduate research awards for health and social science are only open to Black students at the U of A — and every university, for that matter... expect more denial. Proponents of DEI typically resort to a two-step line of defence when it’s pointed out that they have captured an institution: (1) deny that any such thing happened, and (2) when proven wrong, insist that the critic is a bad person for criticizing “diversity,” “equity” and affirmative action. Currently, we’re in step 1. See CBC’s reporting, which covered the anxiety of Albertan academics who, after forgetting to pipe up each time the Liberals imposed their values on researchers, are suddenly worried about political meddling. An elected government using values to guide research funding is only a problem when non-progressives do it, you see."
It's only politicisation when it goes against the left wing agenda. If a non-liberal government interferes in provincial matters it'll be tyranny.
Going against the popular will is only oligarchy when it hurts the left wing agenda
No off-ramp to diversity quotas, federal research executive says - "Canadian universities, at the direction of the federal Liberal government and the research granting agencies for which it’s responsible, have made race- and sex- based discrimination a matter of everyday business. And they don’t seem to have a plan to pare it back... the current opening for a Canada Research Chair in physics (specifically, quantum sensing) at the University of New Brunswick, which has been vacant for one whole year, will not accept applications from white men. Similarly, white people can’t apply to Dalhousie’s opening for a chair in industrial engineering. Many more such cases exist. These clearly amount to discrimination, as people are being denied tremendous opportunities simply due to their immutable characteristics. Aware of all this, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner asked Hewitt on Friday, May 3, whether gender, sexual orientation or race has ever been used to either qualify or disqualify Canada Research Chair candidates. He wouldn’t answer with a simple “yes.” Instead, he deflected"
Meme - Eric July @EricDJuly: "I've never looked at a comic book or a video game and said "I can't enjoy this because the person doesn't look like me. I'm not represented" That shit is for losers."
Naturally, he got called a sellout and someone who had white masters, and someone claimed "No one ever says they can't enjoy something due to representation" and claimed people hated Yasuke's existence. Left wingers hate black people who block the left wing agenda
America Works. DEI Doesn’t. - "My community is so far behind that I no longer look at the data showing how we’re on the bottom of every education and socioeconomic chart. I see the evidence every day. That’s why it sickens me whenever I read news of our culture war over DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), most recently during the public trial of Claudine Gay. What struck me was that several DEI advocates, in their defense of Gay, claimed to be fighting for communities like mine. They talked of how not everybody is born equal, how systemic racism is in the DNA of America, how white supremacy keeps us down at every turn, and the absurd oppressor-oppressed binary that leaves no gray area for nuance. This experience was disembodying. It was like listening to people who don’t know you talk about you as if they knew you from way back when. Sometimes this disconnect between this DEI ideology and the realities of my community was so deep that it was laughable. For instance, while DEI ideologues and beneficiaries like Gay may share the same skin color with us, there is very little, if anything, that my community had in common with a woman born to a wealthy Haitian family and schooled at the best of America’s schools. These DEI advocates were exploiting the pain of my community to gaslight their opponents and this troubled me the most because it hurts and hinders our efforts to truly make lasting progress. The reality is that DEI is an ideology for the privileged. It helps people like Claudine Gay who exploit race for power and prestige and it hurts communities like mine by exploiting them for poverty-porn... DEI ideology didn’t offer Jonathan a better life; it has no ability to help him. It doesn’t offer faith, and it doesn’t offer meaningful work. It doesn’t live with us on the South Side of Chicago. It’s manipulative rhetoric, a way of exploiting Jonathan’s tragedy, and the tragedy of thousands of young men like him, on behalf of professional-class ideologues who seek to use our pain to fuel their rise through American institutions. Their stock-in-trade is a soul-destroying poison whose moral and real-world effects are as negative for our communities as those of any other drug that is sold here. When I was younger, I used to believe in the power of race. I thought there was meaning in it... these trainings failed because they were grounded in race and the only way to get ahead was to play the race game. Another thing I noticed about these diversity meetings was that, as time went on, there was an increasingly totalitarian focus on race that made me uncomfortable, as a pastor and as a human being. It eventually reached the point where race and racism became the only acceptable explanations within the context of diversity language for whatever happened out in the world. But what truly bothered me was that these diversity initiatives, especially the latest DEI version, blamed the failures of my neighborhood on white supremacy. Red-lining and block-busting certainly played a role in defining our neighborhood—a negative role. But the reality is that my community has been bombarded with one liberal policy after another since the 1960s. We were encouraged to move out of our homes—many admittedly not in good condition, but which we owned—and into housing projects where we had zero equity. Man-in-the-house rules broke apart too many families. Our schools produced far too many illiterates. For decades, our culture celebrated and rewarded Black deviancy, as shown on countless rap videos. The only way too many of our children know how to buy food is with Uncle Sam’s dollar. All the while, government officials and nonprofit overseers whispered sweet nothings into our ears while getting paid... For too long, I watched kids pass by the ungodly scenes of drugs, prostitution, and murder at the motel on their way to school. I pleaded for help from everyone and received nothing. I realized there was no true interest in ending the decline, and that my community was on its own. The very government that ran our community down to the ground and seduced those coming out of four centuries of oppression with policies of dependency, would not help us. It was at that moment that I became free. The act of looking beyond race freed me up to see real solutions to my community’s problems... I behaved not as a Black man but as an American citizen. It was when I used America’s own principles as my guiding light that I made progress. My community could see it, and they could feel it. The motel was gone. Prostitution, drugs, and murders all went down. That is why when I hear DEI advocates describe the American principles of merit, freedom, and agency as white supremacist values, I know that this language is toxic for my community and for the lives we are trying to save. The rhetoric of victimization isn’t truthful. It only weakens our ability to solve our own problems and deepens the damage done to our communities by post-1960s liberalism. That is why the recent decision of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to eliminate some of Chicago’s top schools in the name of equity was so devastating to our communities. What equity means for these DEI folks is achieving parity with Blacks on the bottom, instead of strengthening our ability to lift ourselves up. The framework of negative achievement that DEI offers is truly insulting. After 60 years of failing to end intergenerational poverty, intergenerational violence, and intergenerational illiteracy in my community, the DEI folks have decided to lower America down to our level—right at the moment when we’re trying to get out of it. Ever since I came down from that motel rooftop, I have preached American principles to the kids in the streets of Chicago’s South Side. I never focus on race, the violence, or the poverty around them—they know all about that already. Instead, I tell them what they never hear in the streets: that they are worthy, that they are somebody, that they have a purpose in life, and that they have the tools and the ability to create positive change for themselves and for their community. The tools I give them are timeless and universal: Respect your parents, be on time, study hard, work hard, pray, be responsible, be accountable, don’t blame the white man, save money, build credit, plan for the future, get married, be a parent. You fall—get back up. Just do it... hope lies in American principles. Despair and further generations of poverty, disease, and hopelessness lie in the DEI principles... false promises of uplift from outsiders have blinded us to our greatest power for so long: ourselves... It was not the tomfoolery of DEI, which is a modern form of blackface, but our belief in ourselves and our own dignity, belief in the power of our community, and belief in America that is making the reversal of decades of decay possible."
