Posted on 10/17/2021 2:37:58 PM PDT by Robwin
The Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its trained volunteers and guides last month, who were mostly older White women, to diversify its team.
"We were surprised, we were disappointed," Gigi Vaffis, president of the docent council, said in an interview with radio station WBEZ of the firings. "There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are willing and ready and able to continue with arts education."
The Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of whom were active, until an executive director of learning and engagement, Veronica Stein, sent an email on Sept. 3 firing them all, the Wall Street Journal reported. Docents are trained volunteers who lead tours of museums, and at the Art Institute, they averaged 15 years of unpaid service.
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If they are White they are guilt. Black people will do very well in the ART department explaining things in the museum, hey they will bring in a rapper, and swing some booty.
What a bunch of idiots.
I’ll net a paycheck that withing 10 years, the art from that museum will be piled up outside and set on fire. Just like the other nazis.
It’s ridiculous and wrong. That said most of those ladies are probably serious liberals perhaps this will wake them up some.
“Yo, this be pointalist or some shit, nomsayin’?...”
We need the Ha-Ha guy! :-)
Is this not classic racial discrimination ? Or does that not apply with volunteers? In employment this is illegal.
When’s the book burning ceremony?
I bet you’re right.
Firing volunteers.
That is next level stupid.
Who do they expect to volunteer in museums? Illiterate urban young men? Volunteer work has always been the province of women and older men.
People who do not have to work for money, their children are raised and have the time.
That is who volunteers and who is the back bone of charity (different then "non-profit") work.
Sux to be woke, doesn’t it?
I bet Black people have been waiting in line for years to volunteer for these non-paying jobs.
No dissent over the recent descent of the decent docent?
’ Black people will do very well in the ART department ...’
Yes, if you ax them to explain sumpin’.
Yes, I am making fun of their grammar. My daughter has a high school teacher who didn’t know “ask” from “ax”.
Irritates me to no end.
Racial discrimination is fine when white folks are the target and “people of color” benefit. It pays to belong to a protected class of citizens. We don’t just celebrate “diversity”. We demand it.
Docents? They are going to fire “volunteers”? I am not sure about all the AI docents, but those I have worked with in other art museums, and I was one for a while, are volunteers. They are dedicated, responsible adults, who are knowledgeable in their fields. Art museums and galleries are just one institution that benefits from the spirit of volunteerism. Botanical Gardens, Zoos, Historical Societies, specialty collections often have volunteer docents as willing help with educating the public.
This will end a long tradition of public involvement in education at The Art Institute. The politically tainted management seems not to care about art, why should anyone else?
This is all in the name of “Diversity”? They have plenty of division and strife now in Chicago, a town with both a Diversey Ave, and a Division Street. Why not worry about the art itself, and ban all the over-represented Western culture artists and works they currently have? Why? Because that is next. This is a culture war against sanity, after all.
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