Subj : Great Replacement Theory To : Moondog From : Boraxman Date : Wed Jun 01 2022 20:57:00 -=> Moondog wrote to Boraxman <=- Mo> Re: Great Replacement Theory Mo> By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Tue May 31 2022 07:22 am > -=> Nightfox wrote to Boraxman <=- > > Ni> @MSGID: <6293C53B.27982.dove_dove-deb@digitaldistortionbbs.com> > Ni> @REPLY: <6290A9F2.23192.dove-deb@bbs.mozysswamp.org> > Ni> Re: Great Replacement Theory > Ni> By: Boraxman to Dumas Walker on > Ni> Fri May 27 2022 08:31 pm > > Bo> I've meant to ask my companies HR team whether I count as "Diverse" bei > Bo> European, but not Anglo. > > Ni> At a company I previously worked at, there was a company-wide meeting > Ni> where the CEO was talking about current events and news for the > Ni> company. The topic of diversity in hiring came up, and the CEO > Ni> mentioned trying to meet the company's goals of hiring diversity > Ni> candidates (or whatever the term was). Someone in the audience asked a > Ni> question like what that actually means, and they said they thought it > Ni> was unfair that the company would make a hiring decision based on > Ni> someone's ethnic background, or that their ethnic background would give > Ni> a candidate an advantage over someone of a different ethnicity. The > Ni> CEO flat out said that there was a rule (or law? I don't remember) that > Ni> if they had to choose between 2 equally qualified candidates, if one of > Ni> them is a minority, they would need to hire the minority. > > Ni> Nightfox > > I've observed this too. I was told by a manager at a placed I worked that > despite him knowing who the best candidate was, they leaned on him to hire > based on 'diversity'. These practises are the clearest examples of literal > racism and sexism you can find. Having bad things to say about a particular > race or gender may be crude, impolite, mean, but these companies are quite > literally ranking people on race and making decisions that affect peoples li > on these attributes. A "racist ranter" on a train has less impact. > > Mo> It is done because it looks favorable on paper to the community and the Mo> government. Mo> Several years ago a local radio station was mentioned on the news Mo> because it fell within the lower percentile of radio stations in it's Mo> progamming format with regards to hiring minorities and overall Mo> diversity of employees. Mo> In defense of theirselves, the radio station manager pointet out they Mo> had been under a hiring freeze for that year, so any new employee would Mo> be a direct replacement of another, and no one left the company that Mo> year. They also pulled the job application forms for the last five Mo> years, and no one considered as a minority had applied. It was at the Mo> time a stand alone statio n with one tower and a small building next to Mo> it. My guess is 10-15 employees. Album oriented rock, and other than Mo> DJ's babysitting an automated system, they had two guys in the morning Mo> telling jokes and reading traffic reports and sometimes an afternoon Mo> guy that will air calls. The morning guys and afternoon guys were Mo> replaced by syndicated radio shows. All the rest were engineers, Mo> admin, or sales folk. They had historically hired all their talen Mo> from the local college, so that also narrowed down their choices as to Mo> who applied to their communications programs. Mo> They got off the list bottom eventually. They were bought up by a Mo> larger broadcast company that kept the transmitter but closed down the Mo> office. They moved everyone into a larger building with all their other Mo> affiliates and laid off whoever they no longer needed. The station Mo> format is talk radio, and nearly every show is syndicated. Here is the thing. This looks good for what reason? For IDEOLOGICAL reasons! What do such intitiatives serve? They serve ideologies. If our country were run for our interests, you wouldn't see such ideas. So we live in a state where ideological interests trump our own interests. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 þ Synchronet þ MiND'S EYE BBS - Melb, Australia - mindseye.synchronetbbs.org .