Oh, the INEQUITY!
Posted on 07/13/2023 7:57:28 AM PDT by Twotone
Racial equity activists are outraged after several large companies dropped their diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants in response to conservative backlash and criticism.
The outrage was documented in a report from the Los Angeles Times that noted the exits of DEI experts at Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery.
“I wake up every day trying not to be a cynic, but this is frightening,” said Vic Bulluck of the NAACP Hollywood bureau. “Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”
The report noted that all of the DEI chiefs dismissed were black women.
Business strategist Kim Crayton claimed that she predicted that the corporate support of DEI programs would be short-lived.
“2020 was the year that we were definitely making strides — but there wasn’t any strategy, there wasn’t any plan,” she explained.
“It was a PR moment — corporate blackface," she added. "I told people at the time: ‘White guilt isn’t going to last.’”
Disney, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Discovery told the Los Angeles Times that these criticisms were inaccurate and that they were still committed to the cause of equity and diversity.
Crayton went on to say claim that DEI consultants were too busy having to deal with white people's feelings to make any lasting change about inequity.
“If you don’t have the autonomy, the resources or the authority to make changes, it won’t work,” she said. “Many of these women spend the majority of their time navigating white people’s feelings — and you cannot do the work if you have to do that.”
Former NBCUniversal diversity chair Paula Madison put it another way.
“In many instances, the person in those roles has no power,” Madison explained. “These DEI officers are just treading water — and sometimes they are drowning. These things were never designed to be successful.”
The exasperation of DEI proponents was mirrored by that of LGBTQ activists who complained that corporations had been backing off from their support of the far-left movement during the very lucrative Pride Month.
Does White Guilt follow a Bell Curve? Or, a Laffer Curve?
What? There were no purple-haired White women amongst the dismissed consultants?
DEI: So repulsive that not even White women with unnatural hair colors want to go there.
diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants or dead weight
Lately our side has been winning more and more. People
are waking up.
It’s okay to be white.
“Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”
I don’t know about that. I have been denied a position in order for a black to fill it. I am not aware of any black who has been denied a position in order for a white to fill it. It appears to me there is plenty of access for “African-Americans”.
Good. We don’t need this divisive ideology.
“Many of these women spend the majority of their time navigating white people’s feelings — and you cannot do the work if you have to do that.”
Translation: the commissars weren’t given enough power to ruthlessly crush all resistance, that’s why they failed!
DEI programs do NOT give more access to African Americans, they give access to lockstep leftists.
You have never lived until you have worked with a militant DEI officer who is getting her first taste of power in your orgainization
The single biggest mistake I ever made in my business career was retaining a DEI consultant at the urging of my VP.
I ran what I felt was one of the more employee centered companies around and the DEI moron almost destroyed our “we are one big family” culture by seeding resentments that took me a long time to repair.
DEI sucks and it’s really corporate suicide.
Forget “white guilt.” I’m waiting for “White Retribution!”
“DEI experts at Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery....“Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”
Oh, the INEQUITY!
In the 2000s I worked for a big hi-tech company and they had their liberal propaganda crap meetings. In one anti-bigotry group, we were told to look at the stranger next to us and tell them what you didn’t like about them, what? Needless to say, homey don’t play that. I caused a lot of caos in that “class” as well as others.
Hey Vic, here's an idea. Start your own film production company. The you can hire all the blacks you want for crews and casts, and film all the black stories you want. Get Oprah to fund you.
LOL! The companies have figured out that in addition to costing them bottom line profits, that paying these racism hustlers cost them money too.
“Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”
Has this mental midget (Vic Bulluck) watched any TV in the last few years? Prolly not because if they had they would have noticed that most commercials and many shows are completely staffed with clients from the N-B-N* Casting Agency.
In reality the only thing that offends most folks are the ridiculous racial mixes in ‘blended family’ situations ie black g-mother, White married couple, mulatto child. It is totally nutz.
*Nothing But Negroes
Guilt isn’t heritable nor transferred by skin color. There us no such thing as white guilt.
Wow.
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