Clemson ‘Diversity’ Training: Time Is Culturally Relative, Expecting Promptness Is Racist

Cybercast News Service ^ | April 14, 2017 | 1:38 PM EDT | Craig Bannister

[Olog-hai]

Clemson University’s ‘diversity education and training” teaches employees that every “cultural perspective regarding time” is equally valid, so it’s wrong to expect people to be prompt.

Clemson is spending $26,945 on “diversity education and training” for its faculty members. […]

In one slide, employees are taught that tardiness is acceptable because the concept of time is culturally relative. Thus, every culture’s perception of the actual time must be respected — since one “cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.” …

[Chode]

so liburls don't believe minorities are capable of being on time... talk about low expectations

[Uncle Sam 911]

How much of this BS will the South Carolina legislature put up with?

[Uncle Sam 911]

Rewrite the lesson to say that minorities cannot be held to any acceptable standard since forcing them to do so would be racist. Let them come and go at their own pleasure, never contradict them, never challenge their belief system, never, never, never do anything considered disrespectful.

[DeFault User]

But their not a superpower anymore so they can relax.

Even in the 19th century Spaniards realized that nothing was getting done due to red tape and laziness. There is a hilarious short story written by Mariano José de Larra in 1833, entitled Vuelva Ud. mañana. .

The author recounts a tale about a foreign visitor who comes to Madrid to settle an inheritance and invest money in Spain. He plans to spend 10 days conducting his business and 5 days sightseeing. After six months of frustrating"Come back tomorrow" and countless excuses from bureaucrats and "professionals", he has not been able to accomplish anything so he leaves the country in disgust.

[Ray76]

They know it’s nonsense, but the issue is not the issue. The goal is training to apply “critical theory”. The goal is to tear down. Nothing less, nothing more.

[Roccus]

FTA...Clemson University’s ‘diversity education and training” teaches employees that every “cultural perspective regarding time” is equally valid, so it’s wrong to expect people to be prompt.

"I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else, for this type is not time-conscious. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure".........Malcolm X

[wardaddy]

That is partially true

It just happens that cultures that don’t value timeliness are loosely defined by race and ethnicity

Some cultures just don’t care about discipline

The further north you go in both Europe and the USA the less patience period

I think some of it is the heat

I’ve dealt with it all my life and I’m a southerner

A meeting in Manhattan is likely more promptness aware than in New Orleans

Part of which is because we bullshit more and catch up in the relationship or create one before getting down to it

More primitive based cultures and the peoples associated with them don’t see the point of urgency

American Indians frequently same thing

Look at which ones actually micro manage their huge resources today and which don’t

This really cuts right down accomplishment lines

The races and cultures and ethnicities that have done more tend to be more disciplined

It’s just the truth

[Intolerant in NJ]

Time Is Culturally Relative, Expecting Promptness Is Racist...dogwhistle for in case we can't cut it, you can't hold it against us.....

[pepsi_junkie]

When I lived there I tried to get a land line phone. This was the late 90s so cell phones were everywhere in Spain but still not so common in the USA as our networks still comparatively stunk. Holy smokes, it was months waiting. Months. For a phone. In an apartment where the wiring was all set, all they had to do was activate the line.

Before I moved there I read the tourist books about it and they all, every one, said "it's a stereotype that the spaniards take a siesta in the afternoon and everything stops. That may have been so in the past but now that's a thing of the past." Which was a lie. I lived in Andalucia and siesta was 100% practiced. Another symptom of "no rush for us".

[Roccus]

Was dial tone on the line on demand or did you have to make an appointment to get it?

[pepsi_junkie]

There was no dial tone, it was an apartment building so someone had to come to the building and patch in the line for us in whatever junction box was there. When a tech finally came over we had phone in like 5 minutes. He came in, checked the line in the apartment, went to the basement or something, came back and told us our number. Very fast. But that was after waiting approximately, I’d say, 4 to 6 months for it. Spaniards told us that nobody bothers with land lines anymore (even at that time) for three reasons: the phone company service was atrociously slow, calls were expensive on the land lines, and when you got a cell you could tell them what area code you wanted it to be in and all calls to/from that area code were considered local calls. I was in Cadiz in the extreme south. Everyone had a Madrid number on the cell phones. It was that way in the north too. Loophole!

[Roccus]

I should have asked if the dial tone was on demand AFTER you got hooked up.

I used to work for Ma Bell and during the 70s we used to joke about some European countries having to reserve dial tone ahead of time to make a call. Was wondering if it was true or just BS.

[Zionist Conspirator]

When are they going to declare nineteenth century European materialism racist?

I won't hold my breath.

[pepsi_junkie]

Nah, you got a dial tone like a regular phone but it was pulse dialing still, not touch tone.

[Roccus]

Thanks for debunking that old wives tale.