Posted on 03/13/2015 6:18:17 PM PDT by IChing
Do I even have to explain it, and why it’s necessary? An anecdote will help paint the picture (and by the way, I’m past the point of really caring whether my employer finds out about me writing stuff like this…maybe if they do, it could wind up being where AWSME formally makes its first stand).
Very recently, in one of my day jobs, I was asked to supervise some security guards assigned at a contract site. The previous supervisor, a white male, had just suddenly quit, having gotten fed up with a lack of overall support. All of the guards are blacks of varying reliability, the client contact is a truly tyrannical black female, the operations manager is an obnoxiously overbearing and illiterate black male, and the administrative assistant is a somewhat haughty black female. So yours truly, with all of my own issues and horrible character defects, goes into the situation as the only white person in the section, with all blacks above and below me — unless you count the offsite district manager, a white male like myself.
I knew there was going to be trouble. I had worked at the site previously. Some of the guards’ attendance and work behaviors were utterly unacceptable. My first attempt to tactfully speak to one of the guards about his tardiness and his frequent abandoning of his post without being properly relieved was met with his hostile, sullen insolence and refusal to cooperate. Then, when I took the issue up the chain of command to the district manager (he was available whereas the ops manager wasn’t), he didn’t back me up. I knew why, without anyone having to spell it out. So I told him I was inclined to just return to my previous under-the-radar assignment, working alone. Just to placate things for the time being, he quickly made that happen.
Trust me, I have plenty of examples which are much worse than that fresh thumbnail sketch from not even a week ago — that’s just the most recent and easily presented tip of the iceberg.
The district manager later admitted that he shared my general terror about trying to endure/correct certain black and female employees’ poor work performances and alarming behaviors, because of how often such employees play the “race card” and the “diversity” card, and get away with all kinds of workplace chicanery, while simultaneously complaining and threatening/bringing alleged discrimination lawsuits, shaking down companies, and often derailing or destroying white males’ careers in the process.
In this case, rather than be angry at him for not backing me up (as I have been in similar situations with managers in past jobs) this time I took the position of understanding and supporting him in merely trying to cope with impossible conditions. He has a family to support also. Like me, he’s had to cope with some of the same kinds of insanity I have in trying to make a living and survive in the Washington, D.C. area, a hyper-bastion of affirmative action on steroids.
We mutually recognized that we’re trying to tiptoe through minefields full of racial/gender-political IEDs — workplace disasters in the making for people like us, heterosexual white males, if we make the wrong move and dare cross some protected species while trying to simply do our jobs and “coexist” with those who are officially sanctioned in marking people like us for elimination.
I’ve seen it going on for decades now. As a much younger man, shortly after getting out of the military, I didn’t really believe the older white men who told me it was virtually pointless for me to apply for certain jobs, because the positions were supposedly only going to women and minorities. Since then I’ve seen the “diversity” agenda play out virtually everywhere, with white males passed over, fired, and/or disciplined at the drop of a hat, while (especially in Washington, D.C.) un- and underqualified minorities and females are catapulted to positions of power and/or otherwise virtually immune to actual accountability.
Oh, but of course it’s all only fitting social justice, don’t you know — for the legacy of hundreds of years of oppression done to women and minorities by evil white men! And the ongoing residual, institutional effects! Right, we all know the story.
Comparatively, almost nobody seems to grasp the details of the 2009 landmark Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano, and how it’s been nonetheless completely ignored by just about every institution, everywhere, since.
So just who will speak up for, and rally to support conservative white males in the workplace? Will you?
Join AWSME. We don’t have a website yet, don’t have any money, don’t even know how to put all that together — yet. Depending on the response to this announcement. to forthcoming developments on social media, and depending on the assistance that comes forward, we will forge ahead at whatever speed.
The Association of White Straight Male Employees is an advocacy group for people who definitely need strong advocacy. For all the talk about “white privilege,” our daily commutes to and from the modern workplace are littered with the career-carcasses of straight white Christian men who get thrown under the bus simply because of our identity.
Fight for your survival!
#AWSME
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Just from the name, I know it’s a Hate Group!
I had similar experiences, and much worse, as a federal employee and contractor.
Of course it is! “The Joy of Hate”!
I commend you for coming out of the closet. You show courage by proclaiming yourself to be an openly white male.
Ha!
As usual, I clicked through to the original article on Clash Daily, because there are some sharp minds who post pithy comments. (I love to read these.)
From what I read, it looks like you have touched a nerve, and may have made others in a similar situation feel less alone and isolated.
That said, I hope there are no unfortunate repercussions to you personally. If so, I hear they are hiring in North Dakota!
“White privilege is a racist term.
A.W.S.M.E.: The Association of White Straight Male Employees
A.W.S.E.M. would be better (sounds like AWESOME): The Association of White Straight Employed Males.
It’s almost getting to the point where if you are a traditional Christian, you have to go into the same closet that gays just vacated.
an organization i’m familiar with had a sanctioned group known as BIG, or Blacks in Government. i often wondered why there wasn’t a similar group for other employees to be known as the WHIGs, or Whites in Government? i cannot understand the continuing need for the balkanization of the American populace by race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, etc. to me, it pits one identity group against the other, leading to alienation, distrust and discord.
I firmly believe millions out there have been waiting for a long time for something like this to really get going, so if I get some help in the website department it should take off...the idea is to grow a formidable political force which puts so much heat on employers to stop the anti-white male b.s.; which really rallies to the aid of those who need it, that “repercussions” become moot. “Repercussions” would actually become the rallying cause...
You don’t have to worry about being a White Straight Male Employee anymore.
Word gets out and you will be officially unemployable.
And what’s more, just like in your tale of woe, White Straight Male Employers will throw you under the bus quicker than anyone to save their own asses.
Your biggest problem is that 30% of White Straight Males, especially the college-educated upper management, agree with 45% of White Straight Females and 100% of other Democrat favored classes. That works out to 30%x35% + 45%x35% + 100%x30% = 10.5%+15.75%+30%=56.25% against you.
I grew up in Deetroit in the 1960’s and was in college in the early 1970’s just as AA was being implemented. When I discovered what it was about I was very disturbed because I just knew it would lead to the downfall of America. I was right.
The odds are always heavily stacked against the underdog, until the underdog starts changing the game.
A few years ago I showed up by myself (except for having my little 4-year-old son with me) at a democrat town council candidates’ informal meet and greet in the town of Herndon, in the D.C. suburbs. I had one goal in mind: upset their apple cart of democrat schmoozing by confronting them about the town’s police department website, which listed “diversity” as one of three desirable “superior attributes” which should be possessed by individuals who applied to become police officers.
Things quickly turned into a very tense scene in the small room as the gaggle of candidates and their cronies all tapdanced and even aggressively tried to shut me down as I asked them each pointedly just how it is that “diversity” could be an attribute of an individual, and why the town would consider someone having it as superior to someone not having it....a former black Herndon police captain who’d gotten hired as a police chief in a not-too-distant town was there as a crony of one of the democrat candidates, and he tried to intimidate me and shame me with all kinds of scummy race-hustling Marxist rhetoric and tactics, but the candidates knew instinctively that the way the website read was an embarrassing liability — being put on the spot and confronted in such an intimate setting over cheese and crackers in front of a fireplace, etc., they all seemed to try to pretend to reassure me that the town’s agenda was not to discriminate against white males...as soon as I got out of there and checked the website the next day, the entire webpage had been re-written and the language in question had been removed.
Getting to the point?
The only thing missing now is the barrel of a gun and the Zyclon granules.
:-)
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