Are you better men?
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Only racism I have experienced at work are from those who tell me I should feel affected by it. The best most generous mentors and bosses I have had were white men.
How about hiring based solely on ability and experience. All other things being equal the first one in the queue gets the job. This should reflect the diversity of the qualified candidates. Why are they overworking the problem so much?
Threatened employee means anyone that disagrees with me. You’re supposed to shut up. You’re definitely not supposed to defend yourself. I don’t know what’s going on in this world when the people I insult no longer lay back and take it. Weird times.
On this site, I believe the ratio of whiners to threatened employees is about 10 to 1. Then there are the insult professionals which are about 100 to 1 compared to threatened employees. Then there’s Karma troll which is beyond comparison.
Yikes. Lots of threatened white men in here. Not surprising, but very cringey.
Man up and do the work.
@jei+1dGA45RR, It doesn't matter.
If you are a racist by choice, you won't change.
If you are not a racist, there is nothing to change or apologize for, and good luck trying to prove a negative to your accusers who are ultimately driven by economic benefit and want to take money from you--redistribution of wealth, reparations, Build Back Better (and the justification of how some small portion of the trillions will help children, because you must be a monster if you don't want to pay to support other people's children!), whatever.
But the third alternative is that if you are white, you bear the stain of the original sin of white class power. You can never, never be cleansed of it! But if that's true, then why try? You and your children have a right to exist and thrive, right or wrong. So if you can't fix yourself (or can't without destroying your life and your family), then you have nothing to do, nothing to be guilty over.
These normative social values exist in our heads. Why should you give a flying fu-k if someone calls you a bad word? Fu-k them!
It is the flavor of the day and you may get less because of D&I. Can't be helped. Life's unfair, to them, to you.
I am watching some real d-mbshits get promoted for the wrong reasons. Good for them, too bad for me, but really too bad for Oxy. I will take my show on the road and charge out my time at $800/hour. I am really fu----g good at what I do.
Don't collaborate with, don't cooperate with, don't appease this who want to take your family's future away from you.
Cue the dramatic music. Poster below needs help surviving. So sad that we can't move forward. Things are just like they were in 1965, and really haven’t changed much since 1865. Who really needs new glasses?
@2fsc+1dGA45RR You said it all. It is all about you and that is all you can see.
Both Ways?? Help me survive people like you. Good job on the eloquent pandering to others like you. Wish you would retire tomorrow because people like you is why we can't move forward. You view everything through rose-tinted glasses and CHOOSE to stay ignorant to what everyone else is experiencing.
@jei. We’ll said. So many of us feel this way.
As a white male I wish I could retire tomorrow, but I need to work a little longer. Having people routinely characterize my group as racist is very disappointing, and don't think that is not what is going on. Growing up in the sixties and seventies I saw racial issues everywhere and it was not until high school in 73 that I even went to school with African Americans. After that and playing sports with my teammates I never looked back and we all were friends and just grew from there. Fast forward to 2021 and we have come a long way as a society. Sure there is still racism, but it goes both ways. I feel like as hard as I have worked to be inclusive in my life these corporations and the government just want to push that all to the background and put racism up front whether it exist or not. I as a person have come a long way from the sixties and I am proud of that, but I guess I should always feel guilt and never move on. I was already showing everyone respect, and the last thing I need is the company I work for trying to tell me I am bad and need to change when they don't even know me. This is just the new flavor of the day for virtue signaling and just like all the other times it will fall in the background before long, and that is the shame of it all. They stir the p-t and pit us all against each other, and then in the end nothing better happens for anyone long-term.
We are not men. We are Devo.