Posted on 01/29/2017 2:09:40 PM PST by Rufus Shinra
In the latest example of everyday industries being injected with social justice and race based politics, Outside Magazine has published an article in it's latest release lamenting that the outdoors industry has become "too White".
Outside Magazine is a publication, both online and offline, that focuses on health, fitness and outdoor activities, delivering its readers an education on the current trends or topics in those fields. The publication typically releases articles with headlines such as "Fit and Healthy Now", "How Not to Organize Your Gear Shed" or "Want to Run Fast? Listen to Your Gut", all of which are informative and educational for fitness buffs or the adventurous types.
That's why the magazine's recent release titled "The Outdoor Industry Has Too Many White Dudes" tends to stand outs among its fellow articles offering travel or health advice to its readers.
It doesn't help when the article starts out by informing the reader that the outdoors industry has a "diversity problem".
The outdoor world has a diversity problem. Few places is this fact more evident than at the biannual industry trade show Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City. Almost everybody on the floor looked like me—a white dude from Oregon—right down to the flannel shirt and trucker cap.This isn't just an isolated topic in a random magazine either, as many other large publications have published similar articles with titles such as "Why Can't Silicon Valley Solve Its Diversity Problem", "Calling Out Fashion's Major Diversity Problem", "Asset Managers Confront Ethnic Diversity Problem" and many more.
In fact, it appears almost every mainstream publication has insinuated that all industries in America have a "diversity problem", and the brightest business leaders in the country are all putting their heads together trying to solve it. According to Gallup Polling, most Americans tend to overestimate the percentage of the country that falls into the classification of a minority, as in reality only 12.3% of citizens are Black while Hispanics account for only 12.5%.
Often times when politicians or business leaders say we have a "diversity issue", that phrase could also be translated into having a "too many White people" problem, which is yet another example of the mainstream media constantly dividing the population along racial lines.
Why is it there are never any complaints about countries in South America, Africa or Asia not having enough diversity, as there are a much lower percentage of caucasians when compared to other races there, and this diversity movement seems exclusively centered on Western nations where Whites make up the majority?
To be fair, the article did focus on several CEOs in the Outdoors industry that are trying to target minorities more in their marketing efforts, but the fact that the story essentially complains about there being "too many White dudes" in any industry is the very definition of judging a person based on their skin color, also known as "racism".
The Democrats would like to say that President Trump achieving such high support among White voters was due to some sort of "inherent racism", yet with Whites constantly being maligned by the press, media and entertainment industries is it any wonder they flocked to a candidate who wasn't trying to tell them all how racist they are?
Too often in today's culture an emphasis is placed on ones skin color, rather than their merits, personality or achievements. Color comes first for the extreme left, and they wear that focus as a badge of honor, constantly using it to "virtue signal" to others in attempts to prove their believed moral superiority. In fact, they are only espousing a racist mentality, as they should be considering people as human beings first, all part of the same world and same species regardless of the color of their skin.
Good luck trying to explain that one to your liberal friends or co-workers though.
This looks like an inlet into gun owning infringement... then again democrats are still demanding blacks drop guns.
All you talking head TV types, all you writers of
outdoor recreation subjects, and all others who
have ‘made it’ and bemoan the lack of diversity
should step aside and allow diversity victims
an opportunity. That would be an ideal place to
start.
Many of them have every tree in their yards cut down.
You reminded me:
GENTEEL CHICAGO SUBURB RAGES OVER MR. T'S TREE MASSACRE, and
Chicago’s Mr T Outrages After Tree Cutting Near Home – A Look Back
Back in 1987, Mr. T (actual name Lawrence Tureaud) purchased an estate in Lake Forest IL, and soon after taking possession proceeded to chop down around 100 old oak trees on the property, which "outraged" his neighbors and — seemingly — the rest of the world.
Construction outdoors and pouring cement and bricks are being done legally and illegally by who?
Hint, not lots of white guys.
Reminds me of when I was heavily into scuba diving. Only black person I ever saw on a dive boat in the US was a chick from the Caribbean with a British accent.
Does “Outside” propose preventing “white dudes” from going outdoors, or do they prefer forcing non-white non-dudes to go outside?
Wow! We should have such skin tone checkpoints at our Mount Rainier National Park and the Olympic National Park. It would increase the hiring of park rangers! /sarc.
I didn’t realize that people that choose to be outdoors enthusiasts do so based on race. That thinking is so obama era... get over it.
Never heard of it but they too are clamoring for attention!
I think blacks do a lot of fishing. Although it’s usually off a bridge in the downtown area.
I’m so old I remember a time in America when you could go entire days and weeks without hearing or reading about someone whining over race.....
Not so sure urban folks hanker for the woods. Will they be bused in like the schools did?
I went to UW and spent a great deal of time backpacking both rainier and olympic. Based on my memory, They may not have had the checkpoints back in the day, but those high melanin types definitely knew better than go out and like enjoy nature and stuff.
I used to live in Michigan with tons of outdoor opportunities, mostly in the north. I don’t remember the actual numbers, but the number of minorities who ever traveled north was staggeringly low.
I do know a few Black people who fish but they do it from the bank rather then from a boat. I don't know any who hunt although, oddly enough, I do know one who traps.
On the other hand I know few American Indians who do not fish and hunt.
It is a culture things and why are we trying to change people's culture? I thought that was a bad thing. Or it was yesterday.
If you live in a slum, the last thing you want to do is go camping.
Quick! Affirmative action candidates needed. No qualifications needed. Must not be White Christian males in possession of all original equipment.
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