> “The insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020, totally shredded that complacency,” Andreessen added, apparently referring to protests and discussion of diversity after the [murder] of Floyd. “And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore,” he wrote.
Now “my people,” meaning what — rich white folks? Just white folks? Just rich billionaires? I’m inclined to believe it’s the class, and not the racial, group.
“Are furious” — about what? Being confronted with reality? With truth? With history? To be confronted with the fact that he doesn’t actually know how the world works?
What an absolute baby.
This is a guy who offers incredibly little to society. His capital is valuable, but he is not his capital. His donations are the equivalent's of someone giving a dollar. They’re not generous.
davidw•1h ago
jbverschoor•39m ago
It has nothing to do with equality and it promotes helplessness
John23832•23m ago
If I'm a gay white man, am I DEI or non-DEI? Who do you think I side with?
If I straight black man and a gay white man are both applying for a job, who do you think the conspiratorial forces of DEI side with?
We could increase the combinatorial factors by adding gender.
If a Republican hired an Indian man for a job, is that DEI?
If a Democrat hired a Asian woman, is that DEI?
Let's all please get over the DEI boogie man. At this point references to DEI and "woke" are signals of low intelligence.
gjsman-1000•19m ago
Quite the opposite: it’s a mark of low intelligence to pretend that people need to have perfectly articulated labels for a phenomenon they are expressing irritation with.
It’s okay to walk into the doctor saying “I’m feeling pains in my stomach” without the doctor yelling at you that it’s actually a kidney issue, idiot.
John23832•14m ago
Sometimes you have to work on you and it's not some conspiratorial force against you.
This is all incredibly ironic coming from the party/side of self-sufficiency and bootstrapping.
gjsman-1000•11m ago
They can only be held accountable by losing lawsuits- which has caused even Google to drop all DEI targets due to repeatedly illegal practices.
John23832•2m ago
The same could be said about your position as well, you'd lie to get a leg up.
Nobody has to/or should believe that you are some benevolently honest being. If anything, it should be assumed that people are self interested and support the way their "bread is buttered".
That should make it even MORE clear that we should focus on improving ourselves rather than fighting foils.
> They can only be held accountable by losing lawsuits- which has caused even Google to drop all DEI targets due to repeatedly illegal practices.
Major companies are dropping DEI because it's en-vouge with the current admin. Nothing inherent to the policies. If you can't see that incentive, I personally think you're delusional.
gjsman-1000•2m ago
I will happily work on myself, while suing the living daylights out of any company that dares to illegally discriminate against any race; White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, you name it. I will also do everything in my power to pierce the corporate veil on the individual people involved.
skywhopper•20m ago
jbverschoor•18m ago
It was supposed to level the playing field for people who are just as/more capable, but did not even get considered.
Instead of that, they don’t consider others anymore, nor do they care about actual capabilities.
It’s very simple… politics set policies by rewarding and punishing with taxes. Companies will “game” anything to reach certain numbers.
malcolmgreaves•1m ago
Your allegiance makes more sense now. The Dutch people absolutely love the racist Christmas tradition of Zwarte Piet. (What was it back in 2017 — something like 70% of Dutch folk polled wanted to end the tradition not because they wanted to accept it’s blatantly obvious racism, but because they were tired of having the discussion of should it be ended?)
For anyone reading that doesn’t know, it’s a tradition where they get a white person to put on black face, parade them around, then blame all of their problems on this (fake) Black person.
Black face is racist: learn the history of blackface — white folks wanted Black characters, but not actual Black people.
Oh another favorite of mine — every culture has their national shames, but some are better than others at being honest about it — do your people learn about the incredible criminal history of the Dutch during colonialism? Do they teach you about the horrors of the Dutch West India Company over there?
gjsman-1000•18m ago
Changing words doesn’t change practice. Inventing words like “unhoused” doesn’t fix “homeless.”
UncleMeat•3m ago
davidw•34m ago
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