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We cannot fully understand the world we live in unless we understand the -- NJHoo 03/21/2024 4:18PM They didn’t ban the study of history ** -- JMHoo 03/21/2024 4:37PM Give ‘em time. Certain aspects of it anyway. ** -- SixerHoo 03/21/2024 5:45PM Yes -- WaxHoo 03/21/2024 4:51PM They didn't actually -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 5:47PM I’m -- WaxHoo 03/21/2024 6:32PM Look at what awful human beings the liberals are in this thread. -- ryno hoo 03/21/2024 3:49PM Don’t forget what your good book said ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:33PM By complete coincidence we got this email yesterday -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 2:03PM I herd the DEI ban causes racist assaults, too!!!** -- ResistHoo 03/21/2024 3:07PM Definitely won't hurt ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:46PM Definitely... -- ResistHoo 03/21/2024 3:50PM Yeah -- WaxHoo 03/21/2024 1:52PM One of the longest running affirmative action program in US history -- NJHoo 03/21/2024 3:05PM Does this mean the Universities can now ban conservative viewpoints? -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 1:40PM That’s different. ** -- SixerHoo 03/21/2024 3:21PM Your cluelessness of what is going on in life is unmatched. ** -- ryno hoo 03/21/2024 2:13PM Have you been in a DEI program? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:24PM In those training videos, he plays Fred the “ don’t be like Fred” guy ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:37PM Ok that was funny -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:53PM I can't deny I laughed too. ** -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:55PM Tell us all about it ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 2:28PM I had a training class at my job -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 3:01PM With all due respect though, that’s a ridiculous -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 3:25PM Don't be a dick? "Your idiocy is truly limitless" ** -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:56PM Oh I’m definitely a dick to useless know-nothing -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 4:10PM A "truly limitless idiot" saying the same thing you are, or so it seems. ** -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 4:15PM Except I didn't come up with a childish, brain dead example like -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 6:13PM Were you ever taught in school how to talk about racism or sexism, etc.? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:31PM I’ve never felt the need to talk about -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 3:33PM All due respect, I'm gonna guess that women and minorities -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 3:40PM You think women and minorities want to talk about -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 4:09PM Well, yeah, they probably would, if they didn't fear that management would -- 00 Hoo 03/21/2024 9:28PM If it's happening, shouldn't we all want to talk about it? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 5:04PM Sure. I had to deal with a harassment harassment issue (nothing to do -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 5:08PM Except this is about the kind of stuff that makes people leave -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 5:19PM Honestly, I think it's a net positive if someone soft enough to -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 5:32PM It sounds like you were doing a good job with those activities -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 5:45PM I agree with your example. I think it could be really productive and -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 6:06PM FWIW, my experience with DEI offices here has been much more like that -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 6:24PM You seem to have confidence that this stuff is simple. -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 5:14PM I think that making people aware that it is present at work -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 4:15PM Great. That's awesome. ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:37PM You communist!!!!! ** -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:13PM So if you want to be treated like you're a cat............... -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:11PM I have no right to ask others to indulge my fantasies. I have every right -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:48PM Yes, that would be covered by the Golden Rule, or not being a dick. -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:53PM ^^^ showing again he has no idea what DEI is. he’s just another -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 4:00PM And yet it is on brand for MAGA and Trump to be a dick. Wild. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 3:58PM Great point!!! -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 3:26PM Is that a joke answer or are you that immature? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:19PM Two things can be true, an immature person can provide a joke of an answer ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:49PM This seems like a very well thought out reason to vote MAGA. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 3:15PM That’s a great (adult) answer. -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:14PM LOL! Please go to your boss and tell them you want to be treated the way -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:19PM Do people who have no clue about -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:35PM Do you really think that’s what DEI promotes? -- SixerHoo 03/21/2024 3:35PM I sure hope not. Otherwise it's even worse than I ever thought. -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 3:51PM How about respect? How about treat me the way you treat somebody that looks -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:58PM Yes. Teaching and requiring that as a company -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 4:14PM Well, it’s a human resource responsibility either way. And I wish -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 4:23PM I wasn’t the one who suggested it either. DEI as I understand it is more -- SixerHoo 03/21/2024 3:57PM "It wasn't me!" And yet you felt the need to rush in and defend it. -- Hoodafan 03/21/2024 4:01PM Yet, you are here being a dick ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 4:15PM What did I defend? I was simply pointing out how ridiculous you were being. ** -- SixerHoo 03/21/2024 4:03PM It’s beyond that. Take a fun event/corporate outing -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 3:27PM +1 ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:36PM That’s life. Learn to play golf. -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 3:35PM Or maybe the boss can attract more people by being more inclusive? And thus -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:36PM Maybe. But that’s not a DEI issue. That’s a good boss issue. ** -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 4:11PM Who do you think gets the boss to think differently? -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 4:18PM Not a time suck useless DEI course, that's for sure. Maybe his/her boss. -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 5:04PM I'll second BK on this one. Your experiences don't match mine. -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 5:12PM Sounds like your training sucks. ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 5:11PM Boy does it. ** -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 5:14PM Very well said. This is really the key point. ** -- CMUHoo 03/21/2024 3:31PM We a need to spend millions on permanent personnel to teach people manners? ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 3:06PM That’s what you define DEi’s goals to be? Teaching manners? ** -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:49PM We have trainings not to sexually harass people too. -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 3:17PM Do you need a standing dept? ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 3:38PM You don’t see a problem at all so why should $1 be spent? -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:15PM So the answer is no? -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:30PM DEI is a bureaucracy ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 2:04PM What do you think that word means, Dan? ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 3:31PM A bureaucracy? So if my company wants to hold conversations -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 2:33PM Does your company employee people whose sole responsibility is to discuss -- CAVern 03/21/2024 3:09PM No and no -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:17PM I read the OP as if DEI DEPARTMENTS were no longer allowed -- CAVern 03/21/2024 3:21PM Fair point… -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:42PM Alabama schools likely different -- CAVern 03/21/2024 4:02PM So UVa is wasting millions on a DEI office? ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 2:53PM What? -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:25PM So this is not a bureaucracy?.......... -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 2:38PM Is the IT dept a bureaucracy? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:28PM Well yeah and the IT dept produces measurable results -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 4:26PM Good question. I assume if you have already deemed this as a wrong thing -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 5:05PM Do you need the guidance of a DEI staff for your job?** -- HokieDan95 03/22/2024 09:37AM DEI viewpoint is being banned? -- TomKazanski 03/21/2024 1:54PM Its not racism -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:25PM This is what Republicans do now instead of governing. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 1:42PM This is governing. Getting race communism out of our society is... -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/21/2024 2:18PM Race communism stinks, but not as much as -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 2:43PM Starting to think you’re a one -hit wonder with… -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/21/2024 4:52PM Says the boy in the bubble blathering nonsense here every day over and over ** -- 111Balz 03/21/2024 6:42PM There you go redefining words again. LOL! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 2:28PM Have you been part of a DEI discussion / program? ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:26PM Meanwhile ....Washington schools to teach LGBTQ history starting 2025 -- FrankGallagher 03/21/2024 1:25PM Is that a good thing? -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 1:46PM Hold me. -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 1:40PM Heavens to Betsy. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 1:27PM The right thing to do. The right side of history. ** -- ryno hoo 03/21/2024 1:23PM You say that because you know it's the opposite.... -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 1:42PM By doing what exactly? ** -- HokieDan95 03/21/2024 2:14PM Increasing our ability to talk about race, etc. ** -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 2:27PM Dei wasn't a thing 4 years ago. Amazing how much money is wasted on it. ** -- Lupos 03/21/2024 1:00PM Do you have a ROI analysis for us? ** -- HoodatB 03/21/2024 3:12PM Organizations should value diversity -- 757 03/21/2024 1:44PM I assure you it was a thing 4 years ago. But yes, a lot of money is -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2024 1:20PM All it is now is a buzzword. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 1:04PM I view it as infrastructure that will keep race and racism a topic for -- CAVern 03/21/2024 1:13PM You really see a time in our lifetimes where the topic needs to "fade"? -- BKhoo 03/21/2024 3:01PM 15 or so years ago the company I worked for added some HBCUs to its list of -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 1:24PM Did your company need a DEI department in order to make that decision? ** -- CAVern 03/21/2024 1:26PM I have no idea -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 1:38PM I think DEI is a good thing with good intentions but that it will cause -- CAVern 03/21/2024 1:43PM “The end of racism”. That sounds like one of those aspirational goals -- hoolstoptheheels 03/21/2024 1:59PM Why is it such a big political issue though? I'll even approach it from the -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 1:54PM Teaching gay history in America is just teaching history. It’s not DEI. -- hoolstoptheheels 03/21/2024 2:07PM Yep, that's why I said, it's a buzzword. It's directed at people who -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 2:11PM The end of racism isn’t happening in my lifetime -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 1:50PM I don't think proximity to the end of racism makes my point less valid -- CAVern 03/21/2024 1:52PM Going back to the Tony Bennett TED talk after we lost to UMBC -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 1:55PM This has been posted here before - an utterly vacuous interview with a uva -- hoolstoptheheels 03/21/2024 2:20PM It doesn’t take DEI to have a BS meeting with buzzwords -- WahooMatt05 03/21/2024 2:32PM I do agree with that. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 03/21/2024 2:52PM The topic is almost 100% political and driven by white backlash, IMO. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 2:35PM Yeah, i said we should bury, hide it, etc. whatever ** -- CAVern 03/21/2024 1:58PM I view it as a dog whistle for white people losing their majority. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 1:20PM Dog horn ** -- WaxHoo 03/21/2024 1:53PM And we know how forward thinking Alabama is. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2024 12:52PM
