The woke workplace has become a hostile environment.
You be wacist!
(He thought logic would win out.)
Not since O’Barry showed up on the national scene.
We now live in something similar to Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. Being politically incorrect won’t get you executed. But it will destroy your career. Here’s a Russian joke from that era:
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the increase in food prices?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.
Okaaaay...
Note to the author: Two words, dude, Heather Mac Donald.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Do you remember back in January when the headlines were that deaths from heart attack and stroke were up something like 40%? And the question then was: were these deaths becauase of covid, the vaxx, or something else?
And we were told that after another quarter, the data would be much more informative.
Well folks, another quarter has come and gone and there's been NOTHING in the news. Surely the actuaries have crunched the numbers for the most recent quarter by now.
There are workplace protections for many things created by the left (sexual orientation, etc).
But there are no protections for political speech.
Exercise your Second Amendment right and have a firearm in your car in the company parking lot...you might get fired.
Bring a prayer rug and kneel toward Mecca....you are protected.
I have no problems with protecting sexual orientation and religion in the workplace, as long as you don’t turn it into a recruiting center or demand acceptance.
I have a problem with expressing political speech and being terminated for it.
These are the same people who love to virtue signal with their lawn signs saying "Hate doesn't live here."
A police officer’s chance of getting killed by a black assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black person getting killed by a cop.
The chances are much higher now because 2019 was before the defund the police/war on police movement started.
Being woke can be summed up in two words: Intellectual Dishonesty.
You have to lie to yourself, first and foremost.
Jennifer Sey was in my graduating class in high school.
And to think that they all wanted this war in Ukraine...
One heckuva story. I’d seen some excerpts but not the full. Thanks for posting.
The insanity of woke!
Reads like a dystopian novel with a sad ending (for no.)
Foreshadowing the disaster? He went to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion slug in HR. Ummm, guy. There is no DEI. There is only BLM.
“I had come to the conclusion that the claim upon which the whole movement rested—that police more readily shoot black people—was false.”
The author is no doubt a bright guy. He had just never grasped the concept that leftists don’t operate on logic, but raw emotion. Mountains of data will do nothing to move them. Leftists arrive at an emotion-laden opinion and their minds will not be moved by facts.
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Virtue Grandstanding is a religion which will not tolerate heretics.
Thought provoking story, hope it gets greater attention.
I think the frustrations explained in the article will resonate with millions of Americans.