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Evil gator said:
The link is actually free dummy.

Man I yearn for the days of clever and entertaining trolls. This one just does fat jokes circa 2002
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Yes, I understand that, Em. I was referring to the link to her website, which is front and center on her twitter page. Unlike you, I tend to look into things that seem skeptical that are presented to me.

It's just another grift for you dimwits to latch onto.

But please....keep referencing the good old days when you actually had half a brain, were moderate, and not corrupted by a scumbag conman.
 
Evil gator said:
in the good old days, people accepted that men and women were different and that women should have spaces separate from men.

no one should need to do research on that
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Thank you for your insight, June Cleaver.

This might break your brain, but you know that any straight, pervy male can walk into any women's or unisex bathroom anytime he wants, right?
 
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WIGator said:
Thank you for your insight, June Cleaver.

This might break your brain, but you know that any straight, pervy male can walk into any women's or unisex bathroom anytime he wants, right?
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And a man can get the shit beaten out of him for walking into the woman's bathroom without some absurd "hate crime" charge. Women can scream for help and kick them out without having their lives ruined. You're a fucking retard if you're comparing the two scenarios.
 
Can't say I'm a big fan of the song, but the point is accurate - You don't see this shit happen in small/rural towns and for a good reason. In any case, CMT who openly shits in the mouth of their entire target audience, has removed this song for "promoting lynching and racism". No where in the song does it mention race or even suggest lynching. Just more made up lies.

 
Juggs said:
And a man can get the shit beaten out of him for walking into the woman's bathroom without some absurd "hate crime" charge. Women can scream for help and kick them out without having their lives ruined. You're a fucking retard if you're comparing the two scenarios.
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Do you understand how fucking ridiculous you sound?
 
Juggs said:
Can't say I'm a big fan of the song, but the point is accurate - You don't see this shit happen in small/rural towns and for a good reason. In any case, CMT who openly shits in the mouth of their entire target audience, has removed this song for "promoting lynching and racism". No where in the song does it mention race or even suggest lynching. Just more made up lies.

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I can't wait for your hot take on the Barbie movie.
 
Juggs said:
Can't say I'm a big fan of the song, but the point is accurate - You don't see this shit happen in small/rural towns and for a good reason. In any case, CMT who openly shits in the mouth of their entire target audience, has removed this song for "promoting lynching and racism". No where in the song does it mention race or even suggest lynching. Just more made up lies.

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Fuck that dude. Not too long ago he wanted red flag laws and stricter background checks.
 
ufgators68 said:
Fuck that dude. Not too long ago he wanted red flag laws and stricter background checks.
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Nothing like doubling down on being a proud citizen of the state that is dead last in nearly every meaningful statistical category.

'cause.....guns.
 
ufgators68 said:
Fuck that dude. Not too long ago he wanted red flag laws and stricter background checks.
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Can't say I pay that much attention. I know he says so very conservative things, but don't know anything about his past. I assume he was just kissing ass after one of the shootings?

On a n unsurprising note, the View lost their shit over it as well, making some bold (and idiotic statements). Whoopie - Did he ever stop to think that what BLM does in big downs is what they were doing, the same as what he says about small towns. Yes, Whoopie, the video footage of him showing rioting and illegal activity, burning down your own black businesses....that's really taking care of your people :lol: Then the mixed one said Jason is from Macon, GA and she's been there because her dad lived there for a while and it's one of the most racist towns in all of America. Ga is evil, but her mom and dad are still scarred from being chased out of South Carolina by the KKK. Good job, you just called an entire city racist with zero evidence and then made it about another state? No one believes any of this. And Joy..... The song is divisive because it says rural America is different than people in the city.

Well we fucking are you nimrods. It's not divisive to state a blatant fact.
 
This almost sounds like something the Babylon Bee would do:

Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates "fascist ideologues" are "living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science."

In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon State University wrote about their shock at receiving sarcasm and mockery in response to their research into undergraduate LGBTQ students studying in STEM fields.

The team claimed 50 of 349 responses to their questionnaire on the topic contained "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team." Labeling them "malicious respondents," they adapted their project to examine how the joke responses "relate to engineering culture by framing them within larger social contexts—namely, the rise of online fascism."....

According to the article, when the "malicious" subjects were asked to fill out demographic data, "12 respondents (24%) indicated their gender as being related to a helicopter or aircraft" ranging from an "Apache Attack Helicopter" to a "V22 osprey." In the section declaring one’s disabilities, responses ranged from claiming to be "illiterate" to lamenting "My country is run by communists," or even declaring that identifying as transgender is a disability in itself due to "the inability to come to terms with biological reality."

One respondent claimed to identify as a gift card as their gender. Under racial and ethnic identities they said, "I’m an ethnic gift card," and for disability the answer was "I don’t have enough gift cards."

Other responses to questions about identity rejected the researchers’ project entirely, with answers such as "My skin color is not important," "Come on man, these questions are stupid. Everyone is a grab bag of genetics from all over the world," and "What else do you want to know? What I ate for breakfast. [T]his question is unnecessary."

www.foxnews.com

Researchers horrified, decry rise of 'fascism' as students send mocking responses to woke survey

A team of researchers claimed that engineering and computer science is full of budding fascists, using mocking responses to a gender identity survey as evidence.
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God bless land grant colleges and sanity

Fuck “researchers” who develop studies to “prove” absurd and BAS faith premises, and the bogus peer and taxpayer system that supports them.
 
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The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

“Everything is a battle.” Diversity executives hit the exits as company priorities shift.
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Quoted, because WSJ content often goes behind a paywall:

Two years ago chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires into executive ranks. Now, they increasingly feel left out in the cold.

Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.

Diversity, equity and inclusion—or DEI—jobs were put in the crosshairs after many companies started re-examining their executive ranks during the tech sector’s shake out last fall. Some chief diversity officers say their work is facing additional scrutiny since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions and companies brace for potential legal challenges. DEI work has also become a political target.

“There’s a combination of grief, being very tired, and being, in some cases, overwhelmed,” says Miriam Warren, chief diversity officer for Yelp, of the challenges facing executives in the field.

In interviews, current and former chief diversity officers said company executives at times didn’t want to change hiring or promotion processes, despite initially telling CDOs they were hired to improve the talent pipeline. The quick about-face shows company enthusiasm for diversity initiatives hasn’t always proved durable, leaving some diversity officers now questioning their career path.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in police custody in May 2020, companies scrambled to hire chief diversity officers, changing the face of the C-suite. In 2018, less than half the companies in the S&P 500 employed someone in the role, and by 2022 three out four companies had created a position, according to a study from Russell Reynolds, an executive search firm.

Once mostly tasked with HR matters, today’s diversity leaders are expected to weigh in on new product development, marketing efforts and current events that have an impact on how workers and consumers are feeling. Warren and other CDOs said the expanded remit is playing out in a politically divided environment where corporate diversity efforts are the subject of frequent social-media firestorms.

Falling demand
New analysis from employment data provider Live Data Technologies shows that chief diversity officers have been more vulnerable to layoffs than their human resources counterparts, experiencing 40% higher turnover. Their job searches are also taking longer.

“I got to 300 applications and then I stopped tracking,” says Stephanie Lubin, who was laid off from her role as diversity head at Drizly, an online alcohol marketplace, in May following the company’s acquisition by Uber. In one case, Lubin says she went through 16 rounds of interviews for a role she didn’t get, and says she is now planning to pivot out of DEI work.

The number of CDO searches is down 75% in the past year, says Jason Hanold, chief executive of Hanold Associates Executive Search, which works with Fortune 100 companies to recruit HR and DEI executives, among other roles. Demand is the lowest he has seen in his 30 years of recruiting.

At the same time, he says, more executives are feeling skittish about taking on diversity roles.

“They’re telling us, the only way I want to go into another role with DEI is if it includes something else,” he says of the requests for broader titles that offer more responsibilities and resources. He estimates that 60% of diversity roles he is currently filling combine the title with another position, such as chief human resources officer, up from about 10% five years ago.

During the pandemic, some companies moved people into diversity leadership if they were an ethnic minority, says Dani Monroe, even when they weren’t qualified. Monroe served as CDO for Mass General Brigham, a Boston-based hospital system and one of the largest employers in the state, until 2021 and convenes a yearly gathering of more than 100 CDOs.

“These were knee-jerk reactions,” she says of the hurried CDO hires, adding that some of those elevations didn’t create much impact, leaving both sides feeling disillusioned.

On-the-job obstruction
American workers are split on the importance of a diverse workforce, surveys find.

Diversity chiefs also encounter obstruction from top executives, says Melinda Starbird, a human resources and diversity executive who has worked at AT&T, Starbucks and OfferUp, an online marketplace. Leaders sometimes associate diversity efforts with mandates, such as the equal-employment rules that apply to federal contractors. Those requirements for compliance can create executive resistance that bleeds over into other cultural or policy shifts, such as adding Juneteenth as a company holiday, she says.

“Even if you report to the CEO, it’s still a battle and it’s a smaller budget,” says Starbird, who was laid off from OfferUp in November during a broader restructuring.

Many diversity executives feel a lack of buy-in from their colleagues. In a survey of 138 diversity executives conducted this spring by World 50 Group, a networking organization for corporate leaders, 82% said they had sufficient influence to do their job, down 6 percentage points from 2022. Asked if they felt supported by middle managers, 41% said yes, an 8-percentage-point drop.

Since the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in June, companies are anticipating spillover legal action could have an impact on them. Those that are still hiring CDOs want people who can help the board navigate the political and legal landscape of diversity work and figure out how to take defensive moves to shield them from litigation, says Tina Shah Paikeday, global leader of Russell Reynolds’s diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

“They recognize it would be smart to get ahead of that.”

People are more resistant to company-backed efforts to advance diversity when they are worried about their own jobs, whether because of impending layoffs or disruptions from AI, says David Kenny, chief executive of Nielsen, the media-ratings company.

Kenny was both CEO and CDO for a time, taking on the diversity role to emphasize how important it was to the future of the business. Even as CEO, it could be a tough sell. Efforts to restructure compensation to make it more equitable created a backlash.

“A lot of it is, ‘I’m losing my slice of the pie,’ ” he says.
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Good. Fuck them.
 
Have these increased diversity and happiness of employees or improved companies in any way at all? No. Get rid of them. Stakeholder “capitalism” sucks. Kudos Vivek for shining a light on this bullshit
 
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