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.
Cultural Marxism’s “the oppressors and the oppressed” is the explanation for everything.
There is the real issue. City kids won't and most black Americans are city kids.
A post above mentioned "God's paint job." I was thinking of an artificial paint job that would illustrate a point. Paint urban whites orange, suburban whites green and rural whites blue. You wouldn't see a lot of green people in the woods and even fewer orange people. Especially off of a trail or more than half a mile from the parking lot.
Then the complaint would be "too many blue people in the woods."
Funniest movie, ever. And most politically incorrect, no coincidence, of course..
They are a left-leaning publication anyway. No surprise.
White dudes built and for the most part maintain the country, you racist dork.
A major problem we have in the fashion industry is letting homosexual men set a beauty standard that is based on prepubescent boys. Thus you get the trans-sexual models (androgynous looking men) as the new beauty standard for women after decades of being starved to look like little boys.
Now they outright prefer men like Cover Girl’s new “cover boy” and several transgenders held up as women’s wedding dress show models. Women aren’t good enough for women’s beauty and fashion anymore.
I doubt their white liberal readership will be pissed off by an appeal to be more "diverse". They'd probably actually appreciate articles on how to make the experience more gay-friendly.
Outside magazine is about kayaking, mountain climbing, etc. You won't find much there on the outdoor activities that conservative whites traditionally find appealing, hunting and fishing.
If you want to see more black people out doors set up a magazine in Africa. Meanwhile if you really manage to get rid of white people you will have a large majority of the reamining population living outdoors, and starving.
The very Liberal principal truly disliked having my presence in those faculty meetings.
The ignorance of those “journalists” is abysmal.
Blacks spend billions/year in skin whitening products (remember Michael Jackson), why the hell would they want to be outdoor??
Putting the jokes aside; liberals know that. They know that cultural preferences change very slowly, when they change at all, and if they can guilt rural whites about not seeing many blacks doing outdoor activities they can keep that propaganda going a long time.
Black Americans aren't going to go out in the woods to please white liberals and white liberals aren't going to do anything to change that. They don't want to because, if they force the prize bar of guilt into it, it's an artificial leverage point they can use for a long time.
I know plenty of black guys who like hunting and fishing. I’m not sure I understand the problem here.
For that matter, I’m pretty good at chess and I got my butt handed to me at a local tournament by a guy who looked like he was fresh out of the hood.
Black folk, when unencumbered by the Democrat bigotry of low expectations, can do anything they want to.
The article notes that only 12.3 percent of Americans are black, and yet if you watch TV commercials, you’d think they made up half or more of the population.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEPUTY DIRECTOR CLAIMS BLACK PEOPLE DON’T LIKE NATIONAL PARKS BECAUSE OF SLAVERY
Also, Trees remind them of lynching.
“I Work for Mel Brooks!”
I live in a tourist town bordering a Nat. Park and several black families have moved here in the last few years and more blacks come in the summer as tourists too. They're finding out for themselves that we actually treat people pretty nice and love sharing our love of the outdoors with ANYBODY!
Schvartzes....
Take a walk!
Can I ask for a Translation?
Feb. 1978 National Lampoon Magzine had an article about OutSSide Magazine.
These guys are 40 years behind the times.
Ping to me for later.
Sorry, no speak Yiddish.
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