What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?
The unsarcastic response is that “Critical Race Theory” is the concepts taught in educational institution which highlight how Racism has and continues to shape our society, and sometimes talks about the outcomes of various attempts to combat and repair these systemic failures.
Noise, size, weight, smearing, high voltage…
God I miss that.
I don’t miss the noise. Still haven’t found a smallish (by today’s standards – 17-21") flat panel that has the same picture quality as the best CRTs, though.
Don’t forget the shocks, and the dust, so much dust…
I just don’t want them in our schools. Pointing particle accelerators at my kids makes me nervous.
They can and were used as IEDs when buried shallow and face-up with sharp rocks pressed against the screens.
They hold a lot of internal pressure, and a car driving over it would puncture the screen, causing the TV body to rapidly depressurize and explode upwards in a hail of glass shards.
This was how right-wing hero Pat Robertson was famously killed last year on his way to the annual youth slaughtering convention
The blatant racism around DEI fearmongering is really something terrible to behold. Funnily enough, the argument seems to be “racism/sexism isn’t a thing anymore so clearly these are just less competent people getting jobs cause woke.”
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn’t even owned or crewed by Americans.
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn’t even owned or crewed by Americans.
By whom?
The usual suspects.
What does dei mean?
Diversity, equality, and inclusion.
And folks are openly against that? …why?
It’s much of the MAGA Republican’s internal platform right now.
They believe DEI policies are a George Soros funded Global Progressive Communist plot to destroy society by destroying meritocracy for white men, and nuclear families.
So basically they think anyone who isn’t a white man is obviously bad at their job, and only got it because of being a minority. They believe this issue to be about racism (against whites).
They believe in equality of opportunity, but see ideological attempts aimed at hiring minorities as being about “equality of outcome” - and hence a kind of Communism.
They also don’t like Inclusion, because they think it’s aimed at making children gay and trans, and destroying “white culture/Christianity/marriage/family”.
What a waste.
Some folks always need somebody else to feel superior over, I guess.
The explanation you were given is a pretty big oversimplification that ignores some very legitimate complaints that some people have. Of course there are those simple racists who don’t even understand the philosophy behind DEI and are just generally opposed to any system like this, but there are also many instances of corporations, universities, and even governments taking it to the extreme, which results in kind of a “fighting racism with racism” situation. One example is Google being sued by an ex-employee over their policy to purge all applicants that were either Asian or white males. That’s blatant racism in the literal definition of the word, and is illegal. Another example is California’s failed Prop 16, which would have repealed the law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. The stated goal was that they wanted to discriminate against Caucasians and men for job applications and school admissions. Again, quite literally racism, and in this case sexism too.
While the situations like the ones I gave examples of are often made with the idea that they are helping, they’re engaging in the very behavior they claim that they want to eliminate. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior famously said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”, and likewise racism cannot drive out racism.
The crazy right wingers aren’t the only people objecting to some of the implementations of DEI. Many Democrat and left-wing professors and activists have spoken out against what they feel is a misguided attempt to enforce complicated principles from DEI, but the detractors are often shouted down, ostracized, and accused of bigotry themselves. And that too has received condemnation from left-wing academics and activists, but their voices aren’t loud, and they’re not the majority.
Being used as a weapon, for example in the last shareholder meeting for GameStop
So… it’s basically people getting worked up for imaginary reasons? Again?
Gotcha I thought it might be Dicks are Enormously Interesting ^(hahahahaah very funny and intellectual joke)^
Hahahaha penis
Hehe phalus (intelectual)
It’s actually Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I’ve been to DEI trainings. It’s like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn’t make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?
What do the first four on the left say?
I think the rightmost of them says welfare queens, but luckily for my mental health I’m not knowledgeable enough about right wing fear-mongering to guess the others
Fuck. I see it now. I think the 3rd says “colored.” I’m genuinely afraid of the remaining two.
It’s not worth knowing. It’s all ugly and gets uglier as it goes back. Nostalgia holds no sway here.