re: I am taking a Diversity in the Workplace class as an elective right now

Just wait till it's a mandatory quarterly course once you are in your career

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Work your way up to "I think white people should be fired and black people given their positions"



Up to? That's probably the starting point.

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From there it's on to transgendered queers of multiple racial backgrounds who refer to themselves as Ze of the Squirrelkin, print the job app!

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Plus queers. You cannot forget the queers.

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And all the other ones in the LGBTQAAIPLEJDNSOIDNSJ++

When you get into the workplace you absolutely must join a diversity network or you will be labeled a problem person and will have to watch your back. All the big companies promote the LBGQTwhatever and other minority networks hard. The work place has changed and not for the better. Whatever happened to rewarding the best candidate on merit regardless of other things?

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And tranny’s. Don’t forget tranny’s. There needs to be more tranny’s too.

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You never did specify what these three trannies own.

I had to take one of those for work. Was like a mandated 6-course thing. I was zoned out most of the time.

One class did get my attention. The teacher was talking about the "five stages of multiculturalism,"or some shite like that. It went something along the lines of...

Stage 1: acknowledgement
Stage 2: understanding
Stage 3: empathy
Stage 4: acceptance
Stage 5: inclusion

So she starts rattling on about how we are responsible for proactively progressing through these five stages for other cultures.

It was about then that my bullshite alarm started ringing.

I raised my hand and said "with all due respect, I don't see this as very realistic."

When she asked what I meant, I said "Well, there are cultures out there that I will acknowledge and understand, but I will not go beyond that. Sorry, but I'm not inviting members of ISIS to my backyard BBQ. Where does my responsibility to 'empathize' and 'accept' end, and their responsibility begin?"

Thankfully, I work in an environment which got my comments some nods and a couple of "yeahs"

It was amusing to watch the teacher stumble over her words responding to me. It was not a satisfactory answer in the least, and completely trampled over her own logic that she'd just been preaching moments before.

I’d rather put my head through a food processor

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I need to find the passage in the book. The book states that the most unbiased way of hiring is with cognitive ability tests and not giving the name or race and just hiring based off of the scores. It then went on to say that this method shouldn't be used because historically it leads to fewer minorities and women being hired. dafuq

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That's where white male privilege comes into the picture.

Because of the privilege you were afforded while growing up (read: they think the system was designed to cater to your needs/abilities more than women and minorities) you naturally excel.

It's all totally bullshite, but that's a different discussion.

If I could get someone to pay for it, and the outcome didn’t matter, I would love to take a bunch of SJW classes and do nothing but lob bombs and generally make the whole thing into a shitshow.

That said, I think I’d rather gargle sour milk than take such a “class” where my grade mattered in the least.