~~datahazard~~ on X - "All net growth in Federal employment is from hiring staff with disabilities. Now, 23% of Federal employees have disabilities, according to OPM. This used to hover around 7% until 2012, when it began its ascent alongside "wokeness""
~~datahazard~~ on X - "Nearly a Quarter of Federal employees are reported as being disabled by OPM. This is a stark increase from the historic 7% rate."
End Wokeness on X - "HAHAHAHAHA. Rep. Jasmine Crockett just admitted that she was a DEI hire."
Jasmine Crockett describes lobbying to get job 'because I'm Black' - ""When I first became a public defender, I had no criminal defense experience. I walked in, and I told my boss, Charlie, I said, ‘Listen, you should hire me.’ He said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Because I'm Black.’ Charlie looked at me like I was crazy," Crockett said."
Meme - "JAPANESE HISTORY *Black Yasuke from Assassin's Creed Shadows*
SWEDISH HISTORY *Documentary about black ‘The First Swedes’*
BRITISH HISTORY *Black Edward VI from My Lady Jane*
NORWEGIAN HISTORY *Black Jarl Estrid Haakon from Vikings Valhalla*
ITALIAN HISTORY *Macrinus from Gladiator II*"
Whitewashing is wrong and awful and literally structural violence
Caldron Pool on X - ""Australians don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community..." When did Australians choose to trade their freedom for multiculturalism?"
Rotimi Adeoye on X - "I remember being in a DEI training at an old job and some weird lady running it was telling people when you make a new friend if they are black, don’t immediately ask about their families because a lot of Black people come from “broken homes” Made me hate DEI, it’s very stupid"
I thought "stereotypes" were bad
Meme - The Missing Data Depot @data_depot: "In 1969, Judge Macklin Fleming wrote to the dean of Yale Law School about its new racial quota system (10% of students would be black). That year, Yale admitted 43 black students (only 5 qualified under the previous standards). Fleming made the following predictions:"
"No one can be expected to accept an inferior status willingly. The black students, unable to compete on even terms in the study of law, inevitably will seek other means to achieve recognition and self-ex- pression. This is likely to take two forms. First, agitation to change the environment from one in which they are unable to compete to one in which they can. Demands will be made for elimination of competition, reduction in standards of performance, adoption of courses of study which do not require intensive legal analysis, and recognition for academic credit of sociological activities which have only an indirect relationship to legal training. Second, it seems probable that this group will seek personal satisfaction and public recog- nition by aggressive conduct, which, although ostensibly directed at extemal injustices and problems, will in fact be primarily motivated by the psychological needs of the members of the group to overcome feelings of inferiority caused by lack of success in their studies. Since the common denominator of the group of students with lower quali- fications is one of race this aggressive expression will undoubtedly take the form of racial demands-the employment of faculty on the basis of race, a marking system based on race, the establishment of a black curriculum and a black law joumal, an increase in black financial aid, and a rule against expulsion of black students who fail to satisfy minimum academic standards."
Meme - RazorFist @RAZORFIST: "Björn Abandonsson"
RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa: "State TV in Sweden (SVT) has produced a big budget series called History Of Sweden. Here are the first Swedes. *black people*"
Jeremy Wayne Tate on X - "Has anyone ever made a more powerful case for reading Shakespeare and the classics than Maya Angelou?"
How ignorant. Didn't she know that she had a responsibility to decolonise the curriculum and that she was only capable of emphathising with people who looked like her?She should just have memorised black writers
Meme - "An Avowed dev just gave me possibly my favourite "ban reason" ever on Steam."
"The vast majority of the characters in positions of power and authority are female. Men are all some variation of incompetent, corrupt or evil, though they can get a pass if they have a unique identity of some description e.g. racial or sexuality. That is the more "subtle" brand of woke storytelling, based on intersectional hierarchy. Writers attempted this variety more often after overt preaching failed. The classic recent example of this type of woke was Starfield: in that game, you could immediately tell a characters intentions and their role in the subpiot by their place in that hierarchy. If you encounter a young female Asian leader, then you can 100% depend on her, she is competent, incorruptible and essentially flawless. If you encounter an older white man, then it doesn't matter how nice he seems; he's either got some huge character flaw that the quest will require you to clean up, or he will simply be revealed to be the villain of the subplot"
"Ban Reason: User was found engaging in Anti-Dei practices, which is not tolerated on this forum"
West Yorkshire Police blocks white applicants to boost diversity - "One of the UK’s biggest police forces has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to boost diversity... West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white British candidates from applying for jobs as recruits to its police constable entry programmes. However, “under-represented” groups can lodge their applications early. The process has raised concerns that white British candidates are being unfairly treated, amounting to a form of positive discrimination that could be potentially unlawful... One whistleblower claimed black and far east Asian candidates were considered particularly under-represented and given a “gold” ranking, followed by those of south-east Asian origin who were in the silver tier. “White others”, including candidates from Irish and eastern European backgrounds, were bronze. The whistleblower, who was heavily involved in sifting job applications for recruits, said he raised concerns over the policy with bosses but was warned not to interfere... WYP, the fourth largest force in the country, employs 19 diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) staff – many of them serving police officers – at a cost of just over £1 million a year. A report earlier this year suggested it spends more money on DEI than any other force... minority candidates were given months to register an interest and fill out applications. By contrast, some white candidates were given as little as 48 hours... But a senior employment lawyer, who did not wish to be named, said that the recruitment policy strayed into positive discrimination that is practised in the US but prohibited in the UK... PAT officers also conduct the interviews and that, in a three-month period, not a single ethnic minority applicant failed the recruitment process. Police officers who had worked inside the force’s recruitment department told The Telegraph that entry-level vacancies for new constables and detectives were marked internally with an H, meaning Hidden, on the force’s computer system. That meant the jobs were at that stage only open to ethnic minority candidates. They would become open to white British candidates at a much later stage in the process... WYP’s insistence that positive action was not used in the interview process was false, claiming to have “personally witnessed” members of the PAT “greeting candidates with unprofessional hand clasps and hugs and heard them tell candidates on numerous occasions words to the effect of ‘don’t worry, you’ve already passed and this is just a formality’.” In his document, the whistleblower claimed: “I have several examples of direct dishonest, fraudulent and incompetent actions by candidates that PAT have not only turned a blind eye to, but often defended in order to hit their figures.”... The whistleblower told The Telegraph he was told to begin processing ethnic minority candidates before the window for white British applicants had even been opened."
Weird. We keep being told that this never happens and that white men are always unfairly privileged in hiring, and DEI is just to ensure a level playing field for anyone who isn't a white straight man, which is why we need even more DEI
Crémieux on X - "Thanks to the Supreme Court, we know that Harvard's admissions were so utterly corrupted by discrimination in favor of Black applicants that a Black applicant with terrible academics had higher odds of getting in than a top-decile White applicant. Asian had it even worse!"
i/o on X - "To put it into perspective: Only about 1 in 20 blacks who were accepted at Harvard in the early 2020s would have gotten in under academics-based race-neutral policies. Let me explain. Harvard currently accepts about 3% of its applicants. Let's say it had selected students based solely on high school academic performance, and, further, that the school had been less selective than it is now — so let's say it accepted 10%, rather than 3%, of applicants. Extrapolating from the Harvard lawsuit plaintiff's consultant report, under a system that used only academic merit in its decision-making, only 0.94% of black applicants would have gotten into Harvard, rather than the 15.81% actually accepted, if the acceptance rate had been 10%. So roughly only 1 out of 16 blacks admitted under Harvard's affirmative action-based system would have gotten in under a academics-based meritocratic system. But Harvard doesn't have a 10% acceptance rate. Its rate is only 3%. This means that, given the SAT score distribution curves for different racial groups (which heavily favor Asians and hugely disfavor blacks the farther you move toward the extreme right tails), even fewer than 0.94% of blacks would have been accepted in a real-world meritocratic scenario. Almost certainly it would have been fewer than 1 of 20 applicants. This was the immensity of Harvard's preferential treatment of blacks, and of its institutional racism against Asians."
Why does male entertainment have to be inclusive to women while female entertainment just gets to exist as is? : r/MensRights - "If a genre comes out for men and women like it, the sequel will replace the male lead with a women and slowly turn into a female brand some examples. Fight Club, men liked it, now an all female version is coming out with the same feminist director from Barbie. Marvel, men liked it, now many of the superheroes are being replaced by women, black panther is now a woman, Thor is now a woman, hulk is now a woman, who talks about how much harder women's lives are than men. Now the reason people say this happens is because men need to be exposed to strong female role models and it's sexist for women to excluded from male spaces. But when you look at female entertainment, their portrayal of men is horrible yet they never have to be inclusive to men. Harley Quin Birds of Prey was advertised to be all about women, no male gaze, the actor from star wars even says this movie isn't for men, so the fact it isn't inclusive to men is the main selling point. Gone Girl, the main female protagonist kills an innocent man and pussy whips her ex husband. Stroll around the female recccomdations on netflix, there are movies of women assassinating men, castrating them. Yet, none of their entertainment needs to change to accommodate men nor do women need to lose out on female protagonist if men end up liking their franchises. Why is this?
'Diversity' now a factor in basically all university hires: report - "After a study set out to find how many Canadian university jobs mentioned “diversity” as a condition of hiring, it determined that the answer was almost all of them. Researchers with the Aristotle Foundation examined 489 job postings issued by 10 Canadian universities. Of those, just 12 didn’t contain some element saying that candidates would be prioritized based on their race, gender or sexual identity. “In other words, 98 per cent of academic postings … directly or indirectly discriminated against non-minorities,” concluded the study. “Only two per cent of vacancy postings did not contain any form of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) ideology.” Although Canadian universities have long prioritized diversity among their faculty and staff, since at least 2017 the policy has become explicit, with identity quotas put in place for everything from student admissions to hiring to grant awards. As an example, every single applicant to the University of Toronto — even if it’s just for a job as a maintenance technician — is asked to complete a “diversity survey” laying out their race as well as their “ethnocultural identities, gender identity, visible and invisible disabilities, and sexual orientation.” In some cases, universities will actively restrict a position to a specific identity group, such as a 2024 computer science position at the University of Waterloo that was open only to candidates “of a racialized minority.” Some of this has come as a result of federal mandates. Under the Trudeau government, federally funded Canada Research Chairs have become subject to strict identity quotas: 22 per cent of the positions must be given to “visible minorities,” 50.9 per cent must go to scholars who identify as women and 7.5 per cent must go to candidates with disabilities... 489 job posts ran the gamut from a health sciences librarian at the University of Saskatchewan to an assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto. In 477 of the jobs, there was some part of the posting that made reference to “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI). In 131 positions, the only diversity element is a boilerplate statement. Every single job posting advertised by the University of Manitoba, for instance, includes a statement outlining the school’s commitment “to the principles of equity, diversity & inclusion and to promoting opportunities in hiring, promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically marginalized groups.” Other postings upped the ante by requiring applicants to fill out a diversity survey, explicitly stating that diversity characteristics were an “asset” or requiring the submission of an essay outlining the candidate’s commitment to DEI. In 16 of the postings, a job was explicitly barred to anyone not meeting certain identity characteristics. Only three universities were found to have posted a job that made no mention whatsoever of DEI: The University of British Columbia, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dalhousie University and the University of Prince Edward Island. UBC was actually an odd mixture of jobs with intensely strict identity characteristics (such as a posting for a Black scholar in visual art), and six postings that contained no DEI component... the Aristotle Foundation called their report a “reality check” on Canadian universities, warning that DEI policies were harming “individual merit, academic freedom, and equality of opportunity.” “Should Canadian taxpayers fund public institutions that claim to serve the public interest but favour one race over another?” it read."
Clearly, banning people who don't have a certain identity characteristic from getting a job is how you hire the best and the brightest, which is why diversity makes business sense
Obsidian Co-Founder Urges Rejected Devs to Sue 'Avowed' Studio - "The co-founder of Avowed developer Obsidian is urging anyone who was rejected for an art position at the Microsoft-owned studio to speak to a lawyer and seek legal action after art director Matt Hansen accidentally exposed alleged racist hiring practices. Chris Avellone was one of five co-founders that came together to create Obsidian Entertainment, a developer that struck big when it developed Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2. Avellone served as design lead on the project and continued working with them until 2015. Obsidian, now owned by Microsoft, has encountered a great deal of controversy surrounding its upcoming first person fantasy RPG Avowed. When the game’s use of pronoun selection in a fantasy environment drew the attention of X owner and world’s richest man Elon Musk, its art director Matt Hansen jumped all over the situation, launching into profanity laced tirades against the Tesla boss from his Bluesky (of course…) account. Following Hansen’s fit, people started digging into statements he’d made in the past. That was when YouTube personality Asmongold made an interesting discovery. Hansen had in the past noted on social media that he made hiring based on race a priority. "Reminder to black artists out there who are looking for portfolio reviews or job advice: my DMs are open and you will always have my priority,” the uncovered Hansen quote said. “We got too many crusty white dudes in this field, please let me help you replace me one day — I want to go back to living in the woods.” Making hiring decisions based on race is a clear violation of Article VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, back in March, Musk had made a statement against businesses that institute racist hiring practices against “white dudes.” Hansen jumped all over that statement as well. “Oh Elon, you sweet summer child,” Hansen wrote back in March in response to Musk’s statement. “This will only embolden me, you sad sack of s***.”... Avellone is no stranger to the gaming industry’s hypocrisy and cancel culture. In 2020, he was accused by two women of sexual misconduct and harassment. Without any proof, Avellone was immediately let go from several gaming projects. However, he sued his two accusers for libel and won a seven-figure settlement from them. The accusers then recanted their statements, noting that the press had “misinterpreted” their comments. “Mr. Avellone never sexually abused either of us,” the two women said after losing the case. “We have no knowledge that he has ever sexually abused any women.”"
Thread by @ChrisAvellone on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Based on recent news, if you were rejected from an art position at Obsidian in the past few years, call a lawyer – discrimination in hiring, esp for a Microsoft studio, can ensure you don’t need to apply for a job ever again. And it shouldn’t cost you a cent to initiate legal action – the lawyers will know what the case is worth, and they'll do the heavy lifting. This has nothing to do with my personal politics, but I believe strongly that hiring discrimination for any reason isn't something the industry should tolerate. I hope you agree."
Naturally he got called a Nazi etc for believing racial discrimination was bad
Chris Avellone on X - "I had an experience with a BioWare producer who showcased the full extent of their hiring practices, and it's a story for another day - but definitely was cause for a lawsuit."
Mac Smith on X - "At one studio I was told I could only hire by gender. I checked out from then on. No way I'm gonna tell my nephews that they shouldn't bother trying because some corporation was trying to reach some nonsense demographic quota."
Of course, he got insulted as an incel
Meme - Woman and child in room on fire: "I just hope an obese, lesbian, woman of color reaches us before a white man."
On the California fire chief
🇬🇧🇳🇱Israel🇮🇱latest🇺🇲 on X - "America's three most prominent Nazis are a black man, a latino and a black woman. Total victory for multiculturalism."
Presumably, Kanye West, ??? and Candace Owens
Meme - Netflix: "During World War Il, the only US Women's Army Corps unit of color stationed overseas took on an impossible mission. The Six Triple Eight, starring Kerry Washington and directed by Tyler Perry, is now playing. Battalion, forward march!"
Dane @UltraDane: "Their impossible mission was sorting mail in the mail room. The 6888 were mailroom sorters."
Jake 🇺🇸 on X - "Chief Diversity Officers are 60% white (only 10% black), 56% male (43% female), and perhaps unsurprisingly overwhelmingly Millennial (57%). So, the stats in my post quoted below appear to be inaccurate, but better data still show CDOs skew young, white, and male."
White men have least chance of getting on BBC trainee scheme - "Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts. Since 2022, an average of 22.5 per cent of applicants were classed as coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME). However over that same two-year period, BAME individuals made up 41 per cent of participants on the scheme. In contrast, whites made up an average of 77.5 per cent of applicants but only 59 per cent of participants, since 2022. This means that non-white applicants were 2.4 times more likely to be given a place on the highly coveted scheme than their white counterparts. The two-year scheme, referred to as the Journalism Advanced Apprenticeship, provides participants with training and a potentially permanent role at the Corporation. The findings were released via the Freedom of Information Act. Female applicants also had a stronger chance of getting in than men, but by a lesser degree."
Weird. We are told that DEI is about levelling the playing field and ensuring people other than straight white men can get hired
Ethnic minority candidate given police job despite failing interview - "Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job... The female officer was initially rejected but eventually given a post after her case was taken up by the force’s chief officer team, which includes Chief Constable John Robins. To get around her failure, West Yorkshire Police then scrapped interviews for officers transferring to the force, the documents show. The move will increase pressure on the force, one of the UK’s largest, which has already been accused of prioritising ethnic minority candidates with “appalling racist hiring” practices. West Yorkshire Police used the policy change to offer jobs to six other ethnic minority officers who had failed their interviews or had been rejected from shortlists in the previous eight months... the female candidate was allowed to join before pre-employment checks were carried out on the orders of the chief officer team... West Yorkshire Police said a complaint that the police constable had been “given favourable treatment” had been investigated “thoroughly” and no evidence had been found to support the allegations. The force is under scrutiny after The Telegraph first disclosed that white British applicants are being temporarily blocked from jobs as new recruits to boost diversity... Chief Constable Robins said that he stood by previous comments where he said that he wanted discrimination against white candidates to be legal. The documents seen by The Telegraph show that the female police officer was initially blocked from transferring to West Yorkshire Police while she was still on a two-year probationary period at another force. A police officer in charge of sifting applicants refused her transfer “as she is still in her probationary period”, but was slapped down and told he had misunderstood the policy... she scored one E, four Ds and one C on her answers to the six set questions. Sources inside the force said that officers generally needed As and Bs to secure a job. An E indicates “no answer given or answer irrelevant”, while a D represents “some good points but below an acceptable level”. In the interviewer’s conclusions, the sergeant wrote: “The candidate seemed to have prepared answers which they ultimately attempted to force into the interview questions instead of working within the parameters of the question.” The notes went on: “There were good aspects to the answers at times, but it was felt that some of the answers lacked the experience to provide comprehensive examples.” He also raised concerns that she had referred to a historic online police resources platform that was no longer in use."
We know that she only failed the interview because of racism and sexism
U.S. Army on X - "Wherever the fight, our warfighters stand ready to win and defend the nation. 📽️ The 75th Ranger Regiment, @USASOCNews"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "75% big "cis" white guys, the rest big cis Black and Spanish guys, armed. We're going to war."
