Posted on 07/29/2020 6:04:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Lenin, Stalin, and the other creeps who created the Soviet system of totalitarianism in the early twentieth century, were far from the brightest maniacs ever to play at the game of evil dictator; but they did make a few effective innovations that enabled their rule to last much longer than it otherwise might have. One thing they figured out early on was that the best way to stifle all potential dissent was to require subjects to vow adherence to the regime and/or the party line in some form every day. Failure to articulate the required expression of loyalty on any given day, or even to express it with less than the mandated degree of enthusiasm, would get you marked as a troublemaker. You could then be deprived of your job, of deprived of all food, or you could even get sent off to the Gulag.
Subsequent versions of this practice have been used by regimes in places such as China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Venezuela, and of course North Korea. The Maoist “struggle session” — where the designated victim of the day is forced to humiliate himself and confess to various crimes he did not commit — was a particularly obnoxious yet widespread form of the art.
I bring up this subject today because reports have been reaching me from various young people that a nasty form of this totalitarian orthodoxy enforcement is now spreading like a cancer here on our shores. The new innovation consists of “anti-racism” or “diversity” training sessions, which many employers are recently requiring their employees to attend periodically. The sponsors of the sessions that I have been made aware of are large corporations and universities. I’m given to believe that there has quickly arisen a class of professional “trainers” who make a living running these things.
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“I think it will die out when it’s cold and rainy.”
It will probably magically die out on November 4, along with the non-stop coronavirus stories and daily decrees about masks, lockdowns, etc. Everyone will be encouraged to go back to school and work full time.
I tell people I identify as a crazy magistrate, and so my preferred pronoun is Judge Mental :D
I was subjected to a day long “Diversity Seminar” while employed by a global corporation. I endured it until after the lunch break before I felt compelled to express myself to the moron showing stupid slides, and also co-workers who played along with such stupidity...
I said he was a jackass for valuing diversity over competency, than I said something like, “If there were an applicant who was an Ethiopian, and a transqueer lesbian with a mustache, who weighed 600 lbs. and had a speech impediment and body odor, than that person must be made CEO.
Security immediately escorted me from the premises, but I got big laughs from everybody! Good riddance.
Nice strategy! I am taking notes.
I am retired now but my company started this garbage right before I left. The first meeting was just the managers. I walked into the conference room and there was a nicely dressed black man. I thought, “it figures”. He started his spiel and we all sat there looking at him. My boss was looking at me with increasing dread. After about thirty minutes of garbage, I stood up, flung my chair against the wall and informed everyone I’d had enough. I told them it was plain no one was going to address the needs of Celtic Americans and scooted out the door. We were supposed to have another session the next day but the dude didn’t show. Pity, I had my blue face paint on.
“Is it not a lie if you truly believe it?”
No accusation, but a heck of a precipice.
I have used a similar approach, ask dumb question that take a few choice words or phrases they used and take those entirely out of context, make them try to explain it differently and repeat as necessary.
You really threw a chair?
Wow, just wow ...
I took early retirement in 2008, and I guess things were saner a decade ago. The publishers I had worked for were generally too small to employ a lot of consultants. They had other problems, but harassment by outside “experts” — a word I never permitted in any news story under my byline — was minimal.
well played - I will keep that technique close
“I just received my Ancestry.com DNA results.
I am 3-8% “woodshed” African.
How much do you, my white instructor, plan on paying me in reparations?
Cash, or do you need a payment plan set up?”
Several years ago I was called by a pollster who, based on her voice, I assumed to be black. At the end she asked for my race and I responded “human”. She paused and I said, “there’s only one race-we are all part of the human race”. She laughed and said that she loved that and was going to start using that answer in the future.
Can I take a bathroom break to go #2?
Has anyone got an extra tampon?
Were we required to wear clean underwear for this seminar?
Do I smell gas?
Does anyone smell smoke?
Do you prefer sex with someone of the same race?
Do you prefer sex with someone of the same sex?
Has anyone got a spare battery for my tape recorder?
The george costanza theory of life
Some days it is good to be the boss. Not on payday. But on other days.
Yep, look like you’re taking notes, focus off into the distance and say nothing.
I always start with. “ define white “
That’s a general good strategy. Blend in.
...I couldn't resist responding being a white woman and all, saying...Well that's exactly why I hate diversity.
You could have heard a pin drop in that room then.
That’s what I like, a woman who is bold and daring!!!
I didn’t do it justice. Becoming the grey man is a tried and true torture resistance tactic. Look online for the procedure.
Key to ending it is to become annoying to the questioner. The classic is to poop your pants, which is probably not a good idea in a corporate setting.
I opted to up my accent bans lower my understanding and speaking of English. Another poster here upped his stutter. Make them live by their stupid rules.
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