Posted on 04/26/2023 7:27:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Glover says that when he became a writer for 30 Rock, Tina Fey told him he was a diversity hire. To this anyone could ask, How does she know he's a diversity hire? To that question I'd ask, How could anyone be sure he isn't?
This is the great trouble with enforcing diversity. When the Army, or a university, or the American Medical Association promotes "diversity," the only person you can be sure deserves the promotion is the "least diverse" person in the room. Everybody else, no matter how skilled, becomes suspect. And there's no way to clear him from it. Every time he walks into a room, the degree, instead of making a statement, raises a question. That's a painful place for the graduate to be in — almost as painful as having cancer and getting a diversity hire for a doctor.
The term diversity hire is an insult. It means your skill had less value for you than your skin color, your religion, or your sexual orientation. In other words you were hired for the job based on anything other than your ability to do the job.
It was meant to be charity, but it ended up being robbery. First robbed are the people who deserved the job and didn't get it. Second are the people who deserved the job, and everybody thinks they didn't deserve it. But third — and easily the worst off — are the people who think they're going to get something good and end up getting hurt. Say, for instance, the mothers who get misdiagnosed and end up dying for no good reason. Or the teenagers who get a faulty car that stops working right when they're on the freeway. Or our siblings who trust buildings that collapse on them.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In 2021, 28 percent of Black test takers were rated ready for college-level courses in English, compared to 67 percent of Whites. In mathematics, only 10 percent of Backs were rated college-ready compared to 44 percent of Whites. In science, ACT data shows 11 percent of Blacks were ready for college-level courses compared to 44 percent of Whites. In reading, 18 percent of Blacks achieved the minimal benchmark for college readiness compared to 53 percent of Whites. All of these scores for college readiness for both Blacks and Whites were down from 2020.
The most striking statistic is that only 6 percent of all Black test takers were rated ready for college-level courses in all four areas of English, mathematics, science, and reading. Whites were more than five times as likely as Blacks to be prepared for college-level work in all four areas.
And the record shows that “Diversity Hires” (Quota Hires) never pan out to be a positive. The failure rate is through the roof.
DIE needs to die.
And when it gets to the Supreme Court, they’ll do what they’ve always done, strike down the worst of the schemes, but leave a few of them in place to placate the left, so over time the left keeps sneaking more and more unlawful discrimination into the “lawful” column.
“Diversity” to a leftist is an all-black college, or a city council composed entirely of white tranny men.
“Diversity hire”
I guess “token” is out of PC fashion. Forget “twofer” in cases of dual grievances.
the protected classes...
i said that at work once and caught sh1tfor it till i said it’s what HR calls them!!!
Diversity schemes are merely political schemes.
Support our ideology, and hire our supporters, or we will make life difficult for you!!
There is a huge percentage of diversity hiring in Hollywood, in TV, in government, in universities, in k-12 schools, and even in politics.
You can’t do anything wrong, even if there are tragic results with you being a diversity hire. You are the protected class, while those you serve ate the ones that pay you and could end up being your victims.
Conversely, a huge shadow of doubt is cast upon any diverse appearing person. People that buy into identity have no idea the harm they are doing themselves, business and the country. There is a massive pendulum that’s about to swing in the opposite direction. Competence will be important in five to ten years. People can only withstand destruction for so long. ‘Identity’ will be fully associated with incompetence. The really sucks for the truly competent that superficially appear as being part of the identity class. Women, negroes, Latinos, etc. really need to realize this so they avoid future discrimination.
“Diversity” is the greatest danger to the American Republic. A republic needs to be made up of a people who are united. Not a bunch of tribes full of whineyassed crybabies always fighting each other and screaming for more of the pie.
women aren’t a diversity hire anymore?
The university I was at made LGBTQ+ a hiring priority. They even tried to influence undergrads into trying LGBTQ+ crap with rainbow flags with “Try it! You might really like it!” banners all over the classroon and office buildings. I raised a formal complaint and had the main office tear down the flags and banners.
They then forced me out. Hateful lesbians!!!! Not the hot porn flicks lesbians, but academic lesbians. Really fat, ugly and nasty!!
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RE: women aren’t a diversity hire anymore?
Not enough diversity — there has to be MORE types of people to count as diversity.
The silence is deafening from skilled employees whose merit is suspect because they are in the same group as token hires. They're suspects by extension, in programs that force others to question the integrity of all involved.
This old Soviet joke shows what happens when you don’t hire based on ability:
A strip club for tourists is opened in Moscow. But it fails miserably.
Stalin is enraged, and calls in the manager.
Stalin: Why did that club fail? Was it the drinks?
Manager: No, Comrade Stalin. We served only the best vodka.
Stalin: Was it the food?
Manager: No, Comrade Stalin. We served only the finest caviar.
Stalin: Then it had to be the dancers.
Manager: No, Comrade Stalin. We picked only the most reliable dancers. They were all party members for at least 50 years.
So . . . a one-legged, border-jumping, transexual lesbian-of-color (LOC) would be a "sixfer"?
At universities the only applicants evaluated on merit are those recruited for the sports teams and they are only evaluated on their abilities in the chosen sport.
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