• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    Political Correctness > Woke > CRT > DEI > ??

    Sooner or later somebody’s going to have to admit that they’re just never going to be happy.

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      How many iterations will it take for them to just say what they’re really against: policies that promote empathy and compassion for people who are different

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        That’s the ironic part. Even if we went back to 1800 the vast majority of these angry people wouldn’t be slave owners because they wouldn’t be able to afford it. They’d actually be far more likely to be debt-slaves than own any people themselves. The era they actually want to go back to is an idealized version of the 1950s, when you couldn’t own people but you could call them slurs in public, they had separate drinking fountains, and they lived far away from you. Plus you could hit your wife if dinner didn’t taste perfect, physical and mental abuse was how kids were raised (when you saw them at all), and one income could raise a family.

        Sad how those last six words are the only thing we could agree on and should actually get back to, but it’s cheaper for the owner class to stoke hate.

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          Also you could either shame/harass LGBTQ people into suicide or just casually murder them yourself. And if you had a baby with obvious disabilities, they would be whisked away to an asylum for life and you’d never have to think about them again. Ah, the good old days!

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      Well, not until the people that aren’t exactly like them are doing worse. In fact everyone has to do worse than them

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      Somehow, that evolution accurately captures the cultural progress we’ve made toward racial equality.

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    I was confused about how people were angry about Cathode Ray Tubes at first. Had to search both initialisms to figure out what the post is about.

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    What is DEI? New conspiricy dropped? Heard it couple times over the last days but kinda missed it

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    You guys keep coming up with different names for “not being an asshole”, then some asshole comes and claims it’s some evil scheme because the name’s so fucking obscure that of course dumbasses are going to fall for that shit

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    I forgot what CRT was. It feels like its been years. Critical Race Theory, right? It was just a few months ago they were talking about it though.

    Complaining about education (ex: common core) is pretty common because no one likes change. CRT could at least arguably be seen as a new subject matter / new way of teaching history that people wouldn’t like. But DEI is… like going really mask off now.

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      It stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

      It’s essentially another way to treat minorities more fairly, so (American) conservatives want to get rid of it

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        It’s essentially another way to treat minorities more fairly

        On paper.

        In practice, it’s more bureaucratic wall papering and cya, intended to obscure industry practices that continue to almost exclusively promote through nepotism and political graft.

        Access to government contracts and Senate seats and Ivy League fraternities and Wall Street bank management positions continues to be a White Boys Only club.

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      Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Conservatives have been going hard after diversity programs. They’ve been banned in state educational institutions in Texas.

      I ended up adding a whole section in my course syllabus that’s basically a middle finger to the new rules and makes is clear that intolerance is not welcome in my class.

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    Wait a minute, guys… does this mean we stopped brainwashing kids to be trans? Let’s make sure we’re all on the same page of the playbook.

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    We got real close to “15 minute cities” but that doesn’t light up the outrage centers of the brain like DEI I guess. Shame.

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    I thought they were pissing about something else between CRT and DEI, but I can’t remember what it was. Shows you how shallow their rage machine actually is

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          It’s never been a slur, it’s literally a scientific term. It would be like getting pissed someone called you a sapian, or a mammal. It’s just snowflakes being mad they aren’t considered the default, or “normal”

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              First of all, if you think dumb is a slur than you deserve to be called dumb. You also deserve to be called dumb for comparing cis to these lol.

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                  My God, you are just being deliberately obtuse at this point. No one calling someone dumb is using it in that way and you know it. I’m not going to continue a discussion with someone arguing in bad faith.

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    DEI as I understand it right now means I’m expected to start giving a shit about what color people are and I simply will not do that.

    Open to being corrected on if there’s a version of this that doesn’t have me categorizing people by skin color.

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    Don’t forget ESG. Conservatives love getting themselves worked up over corporate jargon