You Must Lie To Belong
Lifted from the comments:
On the first page of AT&T’s Listen Understand Act internal portal, the company encourages employees to study a resource called “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror.” The article claims that the United States is a “racist society” and lays out its thesis plainly: “White people, you are the problem.”
“Racism is a uniquely white trait,” says racist black woman.
…an Ass Prof…
Indeed.
Meanwhile in the Clown Quarter an Ass. Prof of Sociology has thoughts.
What, pray tell, is the “prototype of Blackness”?
Don’t forget that expectations of probity and competence are “devastating” to lesbians and “people of colour.”
How do lesbians make it into that statement? If it’s not the gayness making it devastating for you to be competent, it’s the femaleness. So why not just say “women”? This was written when the word woman still mostly meant an adult human female.
So expecting competence out of people of color (both male and female) and female homosexuals who work at a nuclear testing lab is devastating to them?? Would that more or less devastating to them than the damage resulting if their incompetence causes a nuclear accident? Or are we assuming their incompetence will only cause harm to the wipipo (and gay males) working at the lab? I just want to understand the logic here.
I agree with ccsientist – by the words out of their own mouths, the woke have a very low opinion of black people. And I’m the racist. The mind boggles.
Oh dear lord. I am so [insert string of profanity] weary of these miserable scolds
WTP, in reference to your question about people splashing themselves with water from the sink before swimming, my friend from Sichuan says it’s “to get ready to cold water”. Not definitive and a small sample size, but hope that helps.
What, pray tell, is the “prototype of Blackness”?
“If you don’t vote for [insert democrat or leftist policy here], you ain’t black”.
Robaroo,
Thanks. Any info helps. I kind of suspect that is the purpose but why they can’t use the shower, which is nearby explicitly for that and health code issues (that nobody ever follows anyway), is a mystery. Neither one has hot water. Perhaps they don’t know it is there. Or maybe because the shower is outdoors and the sink indoors there’s a perception that the water is warmer (there is no water heater but the sinks have mixing taps). I am on the spot now to make a phone call…trying to collect my thoughts and my patience…and find my Chinese/English Babelfish translator…or more accurately, my Chinglish/English translator. I doubt any of this would be necessary if certain entities in this country didn’t have everyone whipped up into thinking every little cultural misunderstanding is some sort of raaaaacism.
What, pray tell, is the “prototype of Blackness”?
The professor’s legal name is Oswald Bates.
Perhaps they don’t know it is there.
Outside the cities, the majority of the Chinese population live on 1900-era farms. When I was an undergrad I met a handful of Chinese grad students who described the process of undergoing state testing on their communal farms, being sent to university in a large city, and then shipped off to a foreign university for grad studies. The leap, over four years, from “my ox won’t move” to “what is the 4th dimensional Vader variable of this matrix” was hard enough without also having to learn an entirely new culture.
As I recall Argentina was still about third on the GDP per head lists as late as 1949-50 or so. It certainly helped that they were uninvolved in WW2 and that they did quite well out of supplying food and wool in support of the Korean War.