Posted on 11/23/2007 7:18:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
Denver diversity-training video said to 'hammer the white guy' By Daniel Chacon
Originally published 07:11 p.m., November 23, 2007 Updated 07:17 p.m., November 23, 2007
The city of Denver is showing its employees a diversity training video that portrays a white man as a narrow-minded buffoon — triggering allegations of "institutional racism" against Anglos.
"Right now, their diversity program is racially motivated against white males," said Dennis Supple, a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning mechanic who has worked for the city 1 1/2 years.
The video, titled "Laughing Matters — Think About It," is meant to show employees how humor at the expense of others diminishes respect in the workplace.
The character who breaks all the rules is Billy, a white, blue-collar worker who's a racist, sexist goofball.
In one scene Billy is told that another employee named Carlos can't do anything because he's waiting for supplies.
"What's his problem?" Billy asks. "He can't sell breakfast burritos without the supplies or he takes a siesta?"
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
I hope Dennis Supple successfully sues those SOBs. It’ll be painful, but at this point, the only way to deal with this is to fight fire with fire.
Nowadays any pet group that historically claims victimhood and has a beef with White Male Christian...the baddie group....said pet group will dig up any obscure kook to claim bigotry or racism and yet ignore the fact that:
usually the pet group is more bigoted than the ones they point their finger at.
racism...damn the cure is worse than the disease
Hating /hurting/ killing the white male in the the name of racial hatred has been, for all intents and purposes, legislated out of existence as a crime.
Those "supplies" are probably his relatives sneaking across the border.
And there’s nothing you can do about. Nor anyone else. The sickness is too deep.
The White Male.
Responsible for nearly all human advancement and survival.
No wonder everyone hates him... after all, he is not 100% perfect.
This would be laughable if it weren’t true. And pretty disgusting since it is true.
Hope they are thoroughly embarrassed when they find out that this story made it into the newspaper. Their follow up response should be interesting.
Shinning a bright light on it and getting it out into the fresh air will help clear the stench. Posting it in the newspaper will help (IMO).
Although, they may try to spin it, they can’t. Any attempt to spin it will make them look worse.
The title you created “Denver Diversity Training Video said to be Racist against White Males” was not the title at the source and had to be changed.
In our continuing efforts to reduce duplicate threads, we are asking everyone to not alter titles of any published material. Just use the original published title.
Oh yeah, we bigoted white guys talk like that all the time.
“nearly”
Boxing escapes us.
All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.
The Stalinists on Animal Farm.
“The title you created “Denver Diversity Training Video said to be Racist against White Males” was not the title at the source and had to be changed.”
I must have mixed what I think was the first title and second title. Note that the article was revised once when I posted (possibly to take “racist” out of the first title). The address in the link still has the first part of the original title containing “Racist” and is what I remembered. The desire to prevent duplicate posts by maintaining title integrity is noted.
Ask a Mexican: (11-22-2007)
Each sentence from the following pregunta is an excerpt from the multiple questions in the Mexican's archive that address the same topic.
Having been called a gabacho, I couldn't help being interested in the etymological root of that word. I'm never sure what the reference is with the term gabacho, since in my Spanish dictionary (Bantam New College Revised from 1987), gabacho means "Pyrenean" (someone from the Pyrenees, the mountains between France and Spain), "Frenchy," or "Frenchified Spanish." My question is which came first: the Spanish "gabacho" for the French, or the Mexican "gabacho" for the gringo? Does this go way back to those French vatos that got their trousers kicked on Cinco de Mayo in Puebla? Ramen is yummy.Dear Readers,
Few features of this column are more controversial that the Mexican's preference for gabacho instead of gringo to describe gabachos. Technically, gabacho refers to an inhabitant of the Pyrenees, but it became a Spanish slur for a Frenchman over the centuries. The Royal Academy of Spanish states gabacho originated from the Provençal word gavach, which means "bad-speaking." (Quick note for amateur etymologists: Don't believe the 2000 collection Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans, which states that gabacho comes from an arcane Castilian term meaning "a current of water," or the NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words edition claiming, "When Mexican men noted that foreign men often helped their wives in the kitchen, something a Mexican male wouldn't dream of doing, they began calling such men gabachos or 'aprons.'" )
When the French briefly conquered Mexico during the 1860s, the Mexicans correctly ridiculed the occupying army as gabachos; after los franceses left, the term remained, and Mexicans applied it to their perpetual European antagonists: Americans. Nevertheless, many Mexicans grumble that I should call gabachos gringos since it's the more accurate term for gabachos (funnily, none ever ask that I stop slurring our pasty amigos). So why does this Mexican use gabacho? Besides growing up with the word, it allows Mexicans to smuggle two ethnic slurs in uno handy word — not only are we calling gabachos gringos, but we're also calling them French. Parlez-vous double insult, cabrones?
Good for Mr. Supple! I hope he and other white males fight back whenever and wherever this kind of crap pops up.
I am 1/8 native American and the rest European background. Where is the box where I can check “Mixed Native American/Caucasian Lesbian trapped in a Man’s body”?
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