Politics

[steve white]

I live in a place where 50 yds is a long way in the brush.
You guys have convinced me. As long as it's legal, it's ethical. Nancy Pelosi can make millions trading stocks based on legislation that hasn't happened yet.
Abortions til birth are cool as long as your state (like mine) hasn't restricted them.
Minnesota says there is no obligation to aid a newborn if the mother doesn't want it.
I get it.
I'm done.
Good-bye.

You ain't goin' nowhere--you're an AH Elite...and we still love you, just disagree and don't want to be judged because we use a feeder to help grandson get a first deer, or to fill the freezer, or for fun. Lighten up, Francis.

 

[mdwest]

DEI is just a moronic lie. It assumes that we're all just replaceable widgets, that we all have the same skills, desires, and motivations, where "lived experience" is a substitute for actual experience in a given endeavor.

Here’s what I find incredibly odd about DEI…

I attended a week long program at The Wharton School a few years ago…

Long and the short of it, the course of study was tied to board of directors level decision making, BoD selection processes, and BoD leadership…

All I heard for a week was DEI nonsense…

And with the exception of 2 of the instructors (there were roughly a dozen people involved in the teaching process).. they were all middle aged, white, straight, males… with at least a decade or more BoD experience at the fortune 50 level.. and with advanced degrees from various Ivy schools…

So… in a nutshell.. they spent the week telling us that we should never consider them for hire… instead we should look for women, minority, LGBTQ+, etc.. and worry less about experience and education… and not even worry about contacts or networks… because diversity brings more value…

This from what many consider the best freaking business school on the planet…

Don’t hire white men regardless of skill sets or past performance.. hire black lesbians.. even if they have lessor track records.. because that will help your company perform better…

Total nonsense..

To the point that the then COO of Grindr, the LGBTQ+ dating app, even started calling them out on their BS (he was also in the student group)…

 

[steve white]

Here’s what I find incredibly odd about DEI…

I attended a week long program at The Wharton School a few years ago…

Long and the short of it, the course of study was tied to board of directors level decision making, BoD selection processes, and BoD leadership…

All I heard for a week was DEI nonsense…

And with the exception of 2 of the instructors (there were roughly a dozen people involved in the teaching process).. they were all middle aged, white, straight, males… with at least a decade or more BoD experience at the fortune 50 level.. and with advanced degrees from various Ivy schools…

So… in a nutshell.. they spent the week telling us that we should never consider them for hire… instead we should look for women, minority, LGBTQ+, etc.. and worry less about experience and education… and not even worry about contacts or networks… because diversity brings more value…

This from what many consider the best freaking business school on the planet…

Don’t hire white men regardless of skill sets or past performance.. hire black lesbians.. even if they have lessor track records.. because that will help your company perform better…

Total nonsense..

To the point that the then COO of Grindr, the LGBTQ+ dating app, even started calling them out on their BS (he was also in the student group)…

CLASSIC! "they spent the week telling us that we should never consider them for hire" LOL. I wish someone could actually have said that to them, and recorded the looks on their faces....

 

[Hunt anything]

CLASSIC! "they spent the week telling us that we should never consider them for hire" LOL. I wish someone could actually have said that to them, and recorded the looks on their faces....

Try sitting through a graduation ceremony that has a lot of foreign graduates. My daughter graduated from a well known and respected school in Atlanta. She graduated in international public health, all of the speakers were foreign and each and every one talked about how oppressive and unfair the United States are. They took full advantage of what this country offers and trashed it as much as they could probably on scholarship paid by the school (my daughters tuition money) or by their government. It was infuriating. I told my wife I was done with it and leaving, she said she wanted to as well but we stayed to support our daughter. This was in May of 2022.

 

[sgt_zim]

So… in a nutshell.. they spent the week telling us that we should never consider them for hire… instead we should look for women, minority, LGBTQ+, etc.. and worry less about experience and education… and not even worry about contacts or networks… because diversity brings more value…

And I'm certain they couldn't tell you even remotely what that value proposition was. Intrinsicism is just one more in a litany of idiotic beliefs of that crowd. The only arena I know of where everything is relative is value systems.

 

[Red Leg]

Try sitting through a graduation ceremony that has a lot of foreign graduates. My daughter graduated from a well known and respected school in Atlanta. She graduated in international public health, all of the speakers were foreign and each and every one talked about how oppressive and unfair the United States are. They took full advantage of what this country offers and trashed it as much as they could probably on scholarship paid by the school (my daughters tuition money) or by their government. It was infuriating. I told my wife I was done with it and leaving, she said she wanted to as well but we stayed to support our daughter. This was in May of 2022.

We went through the same thing except for the speeches in 2006 when our daughter graduated with a hard science degree from Texas A&M. An Anglo Saxon face on that stage was a very rare thing. But unless we want DEI applied to our children, the problem does not rest with foreign or minority Asian students. The issues are test scores and high school resumes of the typical white highschool student today.

 

[Hunt anything]

We went through the same thing except for the speeches in 2006 when our daughter graduated with a hard science degree from Texas A&M. An Anglo Saxon face on that stage was a very rare thing. But unless we want DEI applied to our children, the problem does not rest with foreign or minority Asian students. The issues are test scores and high school resumes of the typical white highschool student today.

I agree, my daughter graduated high school with an I.B. Degree then went on to UAB and graduated in 3 years with a double major in public health and Spanish never making anything but A’s. She then went on to Emory and received her masters in International Public Health. I think she made 1 B at Emory. Without her hard work and dedication in high school and at UAB she never would have achieved what she has.

As a side note, she is working at the CDC and with her speaking Spanish pretty well you would think they would assign her to Spanish speaking countries but in typical government logic she was assigned Cambodia, India and Bangladesh.