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.
If the Democrats really want to know one of the reason they drove away the working class, it's because White people are sick of constantly being called racists at every corner.
Clearly we need to force more people of color into engaging in outdoor sports.
The Left wants to ban whites from the outdoors ? D’oh
Canceled tomorrow with predjdice.
I don’t know any nor seen any black people up in the trail I hike to. The only “outdoor” type thing they do is buy something with their EBT card or sell/buy weed.
Whether they want it or not!
Well maybe if the Black Community wouldn’t have so many abortions, then maybe there would be more Black people in their Communities...
If there really was an “OUTDOOR MAN with someone Tim Allen blogging every day, they’d make a killing.
Well...what’s stopping you?
I live in Georgia, and I have observed the blacks moving here from up north, and many of them are virtually afraid of the woods. They don’t like to buy houses near the woods.
Many of them have every tree in their yards cut down.
They don’t seem to like the woods at all.
If they don’t, they sure made a bad choice moving to Georgia, or, the south.
We must be prepared to use force.
From what I have seen the inner-city brothers are very uncomfortable beyond the city limits.
Hey Outdoor Magazine, maybe most black people aren’t into this kind of activity because they grew up in urban areas and are not interested in mountain climbing or whatever.
There are differences in white and black culture. Sorry to bust ya’ bubble.
Idiots.
Besides, wtf is so wrong with “white dudes”
I Don’t hear anyone complaining that basketball or rap has too many black dudes.
I live in Nevada and am into pretty “extreme” 4 wheeling and camping, including a couple trips a year traversing about 600 miles all dirt without maps from utah to california, and I will attest to the discrimination. In Nevada, at every intersection of paved roads and dirt roads, there is a little booth with a ranger that checks the melanin level of every driver. If they have too much melanin, they are turned away
It’s for the good of the country. No limits!
They cut the trees down so they can spot the cops coming..
Fashion's Major Diversity Problem
Not enough heterosexuals.
The people who want to see fewer white people ought to be called out for the genocidal fascists they are.
Put package stores in our national parks!
I’ve seen more Asians (yellow and brown) camping than I have blacks. Matter of fact, I have NEVER seen a black person wilderness camping. Ever. USA or Canada.
I have seen ONE black couple in a motorhome, at an RV park in Yuma 6 years ago. Oh, I have lived next door to a (different from the one above) large RV park for the last 20+ years.
Perhaps there is no “diversity” because other ethnicities have other interests perhaps?
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