All of their articles are objectie and honest? I won’t even address that load.
“Objective and honest” is subjective, to be honest.
Yeah, encouraged, that’s corp speak for do it or your career will be negatively impacted.
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Nope…we have access to these same courses at my company and we have a huge I&D push going on right now just like any large corporation does…no one is impacted career-wise for not taking non-mandatory classes.
You talk about Narratives being constructed in this space.
You are completely oblivious to the Narrative being constructed to influence you as well.
Amazing times we live in.
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Right on! Get you some good stuff. Get WOKE! 
Why?
As well?
Sorry, I worked many years for a large corporation, I know how they work. Giving money to the United Way was encouraged, not mandatory, sometimes political donations as well. If you didn’t, good luck moving up.
Yes the Narrative that people will be punished if they don’t take voluntary courses.
This isn’t true.
What’s the other one? The one being constructed to influence you?
I didn’t contribute to the United Way or took encouraged, voluntary courses.
I moved up just fine.
Maybe you worked at the wrong company
While it isn’t always the case, it often is, depending on how much management wants you to take it and what they think not taking it says about you.
Verizon used to strongly encourage employees to give to the United Way. I forget when that ended. I always refused and I wondered why that seemed to make the supervisor uncomfortable. My now wife didn’t give either, but it didn’t stop her from moving up.
Keep in mind, just moving up is not proof the career wasn’t impacted. Maybe she would have moved up faster or farther if she had. And in my company, management didn’t hold it against non-management because they weren’t paid as much, but once you hit management, you either started giving or you were pretty much sidelined. Political donations were expected once you hit upper management. And you see evidence of that pretty often, when everyone at a companies upper management is giving donations to one politician you can be fairly sure, some of them didn’t want to but did it anyway because they know the consequences.
‘Whiteness’ is a construct, and as such, can be weaponized. It has a much longer history as an advantage than as a weaponized liability. And not evenly. It’s hardly a disadvantage to anyone with resources.
Which brings as to the nexus of the thing: class. Most of the victims of elites (and this does not include the in-group faction contests which result in winners and losers) can be defined primarily by their lack of resources and armed guards, i.e. power.
Everywhere the British went, they added race to the much older class conflicts, knowingly and with foresight. In a very real way, the British upper class invented race, mostly as an emergent reaction to the rapid conquest of their empire, but especially in those places where they dug slavery’s roots deep.
This is our heritage, and pretending that a march, two rallies, three assassinations and a poorly enforced act of Congress changed what the British wrought is…something the other side of not-even-wrong.
The twitterati have internalized race in order to abolish it. Of course, they are doomed to failure, but that dorsn’t mean that whiteness hasn’t been a relative advantage, and a historically sound marker of social position and power everywhere the Bloody Apron once was flown.
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Wow, you can’t get more racist.
If you mean the Woke, that’s incorrect.
Fair point.
It’s not hard to tell when someone actually makes an effort though.
Does CNN and NYT?
