The coordinated attack on D.E.I. is a vast right wing conspiracy

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She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Why encourage your daughter to go to college then? You don’t need a college degree to be a SAHM.

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Yes, you are a bigot.

Say it: “I am a bigot.”

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Why encourage your daughter to go to college then? You don’t need a college degree to be a SAHM.

NP, but so she can work before having kids, after her kids are grown, if her husband dies or leaves her, or wants to homeschool her kids or just be an educated person? Or maybe she’ll never marry or have kids & doesn’t know that yet at 18. I mean, come on.

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Anonymous wrote:And the NYT brought receipts.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Why do conservatives hate America and everything it stands for? Why are they so racist?

So many choice bigoted quotes from this article. I’ll start with a few.

Scott Yenor, of the Claremont Institute, on what their true goal is - the ability to discriminate against individuals based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation:

”The core of what we oppose is 'anti-discrimination.' That is too much of a sacred cow.”

Thomas Klingenstein, president of Claremont Institute, admits that they the point of their effort is to seek to indoctinate K-12 children with rightwing ideologies:

“In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education. No we don’t. We want our politics. All education is political.”

Scott Yenor, again, on revisions his editor wanted to include in a new piece of writing but that Yenor found too strident for publication, though Yenor admits in the emails that he privately agrees with the language:

“Our sexual culture will not heal until ‘faggot’ replaces ‘bigot’ as the slur of choice,” or “Our sexual culture will not be healed until we once again agree that homosexuality belongs in the closet and that a healthy society requires patriarchy.”

Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute on recent gay marriage developments in India:

She speculated in the May exchange that it would be “fun to see” what liberals would say about Indians if the court conferred gay marriage rights but Indians refused to “go along.” “How will western elites explain the benightedness of yet another group of POCs?” In response, Dr. Yenor noted that “not tons of asian countries have SSM” but rather “more wholesome policies like prison” for gays.

David Azerrad, a professor at Hillsdale College, who often tries to appeal to liberals in his writings but really harbors very bigoted beliefs in private:

“Heather, that's an easy one. Indians are Asians who are white-adjacent so at the bottom of the totem poll. Gays are second after blacks.”

Heather MacDonald, sarcastically voicing her true feelings about Peter Theil and his gay lifestyle + the news story about the suicide of Thiel’s throuple boyfriend:

Some female over the last year or so, eager to show her openmindedness, was crowing to me about how wonderful Thiel's "husband" was, making them out to be the most proper couple.

I wonder if he will feel any shame in public. Probably not.

Professors Yenor and Azerrad making fun of the appearance of one of the students at Yenor’s university (Boise State):

On one occasion, he forwarded a Boise State email featuring a photo of a female computer science student with close-cropped hair and a plaid shirt. “Gynocracy update!” Dr. Yenor wrote.

Riffing on the woman’s masculine appearance, his friend Dr. Azerrad chimed in with a correction: “Androgynococracy update.”

Heather MacDonald, taking a walking on the Upper East Side and seething at the thought of working mothers and persons of color who enter her field of vision:

As I was taking my evening power walk in the hood here (upper east side) and seeing all the nannies of color walking school children back to their apartments, it struck me again the bizarreness of females deciding that their comparative advantage is in being an associate in a law firm, say, and thus that they should outsource the once in a lifetime unduplicable unrepeatable experience of raising a unique child to some one else, especially someone from the low IQ 3rd world, while they do the drone work of making partner. The child is evolving so quickly, absorbing so many influences, and yet they would rather absent themselves from its life to show that they are as good as males. such a distribution of labor is allegedly pareto optimal. Another curse of feminism.

yes, they have horrible beliefs. But "coordinated attack on dei is a vast right wing conspiracy" is just calling the normal political process names. They have a right to these beliefs. They have a right to organize. We have a right not to vote for them.

Well I guess that’s the insidious part. We don’t get a choice to vote for these people, yet they try to stealthily influence public discourse, actively want to indoctrinate children slyly, and try to hold power over public officials. They use social media to astroturf ideas and ideologies that their own research shows are unpopular, thereby disproportionately infecting the public debate. They also don’t have to reveal their donors, despite being clearly political actors who have partisan preferences.

They are fundamentally anti-democratic bigoted partisans pretending to be free-speech loving academics.

but that's the way democracy works? We don't get to vote about what people believe, only who runs our government. And we have to accept the will of the majority. If we don't like their opinons (and I certainly don't like the opinions of these people... a patriarchy is the last thing I want) don't vote for them. I'll be voting for Biden.

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Why encourage your daughter to go to college then? You don’t need a college degree to be a SAHM.

NP, but so she can work before having kids, after her kids are grown, if her husband dies or leaves her, or wants to homeschool her kids or just be an educated person? Or maybe she’ll never marry or have kids & doesn’t know that yet at 18. I mean, come on.

Women stay in the workforce and hire nannies because American workplaces “punish” women for leaving the workforce to raise their kids. It’s called the Motherhood Penalty and has been well-studied and documented

It’s weird that Heather MacDonald criticizes women for working, but doesn’t do anything to tackle this issue that would allow American women to stay home to raise their kids…

https://fortune.com/recommends/banking/the-motherhood-penalty/

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Why encourage your daughter to go to college then? You don’t need a college degree to be a SAHM.

Well, you actually do need to go to college to be a SAHM in order to find a partner who makes enough money for you to be a SAHM.

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Being a white man, I was depicted as the oppressor or perhaps a racist for my skin colour. I wondered how people of colour felt during the session as the oppressed. These were my colleagues and friends, and now there seemed to be a wall of division going up that did not previously exist.

I had to edit out the majority of that entitled butt-hurt prattle to just say what a shining example of white fragility. This guy fancies himself a good person — he very well may be — but has internalized too much and clearly cannot get passed the cognitive dissonance. He takes it sooooo personally and feels personally attacked instead of considering instead how people who HAVE been oppressed feel and look at things.

And yeah, Christianity is pretty much the evil. That’s not exactly in dispute.

White fragility is a new buzz word in identity politics.

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DEI is total crap and it’s great that people are fed up and have had enough. Whether it’s refusing to attend stupid work events that honor every group other than White people or pulling your kids out of public schools that no longer recognize merit because some race grifter like Ibram Kendi told them merit is a racist concept, people are finding ways to rebel.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI is total crap and it’s great that people are fed up and have had enough. Whether it’s refusing to attend stupid work events that honor every group other than White people or pulling your kids out of public schools that no longer recognize merit because some race grifter like Ibram Kendi told them merit is a racist concept, people are finding ways to rebel.

Yeah, so tired of the oppression Olympics and diversity calendar at work. Why can't people just go to work and do their jobs? I don't need to wear rainbow pants and be forcefed rainbow cookies at work during pride month. I don't need to be forcefed dimsum and noodle soup during Asian heritage month.

Just go to work and do your damn job. So tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI is total crap and it’s great that people are fed up and have had enough. Whether it’s refusing to attend stupid work events that honor every group other than White people or pulling your kids out of public schools that no longer recognize merit because some race grifter like Ibram Kendi told them merit is a racist concept, people are finding ways to rebel.

Why, do you think it's unfair because white people need their own work events to honor them as well? The whole deal is that white people have basically already been honored 24x7x365 for the last 200 years. And, non-white people who DID have merit were routinely passed over for the last 200 years.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI is the new CRT.

?? That makes no sense even on its face.

Or do you mean politically in terms of bad-faith right wingers inventing phantom menaces?

You got it. People got bored with CRT. Need a new boogeyman for the 2024 election.

It makes me wonder: Do Republicans keep a secret list of these acronym villains somewhere, so they all know who to move onto next? I imagine it’s kind of like the alphabetized list of hurricane names. Hurricane CRT followed by Hurricane DEI. I guess the next manufactured race-based hurricane is going to start with an E?

Or they'll dream up bizarre stuff like "they are providing litter boxes to students who identify as cat gender" hoping for yet more of that "OH MAH GAWD GET A BRAIN L!BTARD MORANS!!!" churn...

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I hope somebody has a coordinated attack on DEI. If the R's are doing it, good for them. They suck at most things, but seem to be on the popular side re DEI and border security.

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Anonymous wrote:She is not wrong about the nannies raising the kids…

Why encourage your daughter to go to college then? You don’t need a college degree to be a SAHM.

NP, but so she can work before having kids, after her kids are grown, if her husband dies or leaves her, or wants to homeschool her kids or just be an educated person? Or maybe she’ll never marry or have kids & doesn’t know that yet at 18. I mean, come on.

Women stay in the workforce and hire nannies because American workplaces “punish” women for leaving the workforce to raise their kids. It’s called the Motherhood Penalty and has been well-studied and documented

It’s weird that Heather MacDonald criticizes women for working, but doesn’t do anything to tackle this issue that would allow American women to stay home to raise their kids…

https://fortune.com/recommends/banking/the-motherhood-penalty/

I’m a SAHM who realizes that many women don’t want to stay home to raise their children full time. I can’t tell you how judgy and dismissive people are of those of us who do not have paid employment outside the home - including conservatives who think it’s just what women are and that we’re not very bright, and for that reason I wouldn’t encourage anyone to stay home with their kids.

Back on topic: obviously the DEI obsession is part of the right wing crap-o-sphere of nonsense. DEI, CRT, “porn in schools” excuse for banning books about Black history and women’s history, drag queens, immigrant caravans (that disappear seemingly overnight after the election is done; guys, use some critical thinking as to why that keeps happening) Dr. Seuss, Keurig, obsessions with Kaepernick taking a knee, “he should have complied”, political correctness… one can only come to the conclusion that Republicans aren’t thoughtful people. They get mad about whatever they’re told to get mad about and don’t question it a whit further. It’s all about grievances and othering and making sure that none of these Republican voters ever wakes up to the fact that it’s billionaires vs the rest of us, and they keep siding with the billionaires.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI is total crap and it’s great that people are fed up and have had enough. Whether it’s refusing to attend stupid work events that honor every group other than White people or pulling your kids out of public schools that no longer recognize merit because some race grifter like Ibram Kendi told them merit is a racist concept, people are finding ways to rebel.

Why, do you think it's unfair because white people need their own work events to honor them as well? The whole deal is that white people have basically already been honored 24x7x365 for the last 200 years. And, non-white people who DID have merit were routinely passed over for the last 200 years.

Because hiring a whole bunch of unqualified people simply because they're diversity hires does wonders for a business.

You want retribution, not equality. And now we are at the point of DEI where there's a farcical assumption that a diversity hire qualified simply because they're a minority or in some oppression cohort that's the new flavor of the month. Being a minority does not grant one automatic qualifications, but too often DEI initiatives make that assumption.