Posted on 10/13/2021 8:15:50 PM PDT by rxsid
Chicago Art Museum Fires Unpaid Volunteers For Being White
Replaces them with ‘diverse’ paid workers on $25 an hour.
A prestigious art museum in Chicago fired hundreds of unpaid volunteers and replaced them with paid workers because they were too white.
Yes, really.
The Art Institute of Chicago had been able to depend on the help of 122 highly skilled volunteers, mostly older white women, to act as guides to the Museum’s collection of 300,000 works, which they explain in great detail to visitors.
The volunteers also acted as “school group greeters” to help children understand the importance of what they were seeing.
Training requirements for the position were intense, and the volunteers were apparently doing a great job.
But now they’ve now all been dismissed for not being “diverse” enough.
“Many of the volunteers—though not all—are older white women, who have the time and resources to devote so much free labor to the Museum,” reports the Why Evolution is True blog.
“But the demographics of that group weren’t appealing to the AIC, and so, in late September, the AIC fired all of them, saying they’d be replaced by smaller number of hired volunteers workers who will be paid $25 an hour. That group will surely meet the envisioned diversity goals.”
“Paying the replacements will not result in more knowledgeable docents. But they won’t be Caucasian; that’s the important thing,” writes Dave Blount.
Unfortunately for the volunteers, a lack of “diversity” is only apparently a problem at one end of the spectrum.
A similar thing happened last month when the English Touring Opera (ETO) kicked out half of its orchestral players in an effort to prioritize “increased diversity in the orchestra.”
The act of musical ethnic cleansing was carried out in the interests of following “firm guidance of the Arts Council,” which is a government-funded body.
Once again, this all underscores the fact that the only form of institutionalized racism that remains not only acceptable, but something to be encouraged, is against white people.
This is the President of The Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau. Funny how people like him never think that the need for diversity should start at the top. pic.twitter.com/IJhzWU4UYJ— Boostahfazoo (@boostahfazoo) October 10, 2021
In our small city that is maybe 95% white, the white male museum director wrote in the news bulletin that “there’s a lot of painful but necessary ‘work’ to do.” Meaning we need to force diversity for diversity’s sake, even though no one is complaining. Sounds like something Mooschelle Obama would say. Needless to say, they have not gotten any of my money for several years.
Places like this deserve to lose business and shut down.
stupid whites......
If (under such circumstances - i.e., potential mass lay-offs) anyone asks me my racial affiliation, I will respond, "I am a member of an historically underprivileged ethnic minority which has suffered discrimination - and that's all you need to know!"
Regards,
OTOH:
"Yo! You bitches listen up. This Mofo was painted by some Cracker Ass Cracker somewhere sometime... It's really about Racism... Yo, fine mama, you want to see some etchings?"
Its a psychopomp show.A bureaucratic violation of Civil Rights.
The American Marxism is now manifesting its bizarro destruction of civility, the Constitution and our history.
How to fight back?
Ridicule.
Public ridicule.
Unbridled ridicule.
Boycott , Unbridled boycott.
Join White Lives Matter.
Better start tossing much of that art out the door as well, many pieces were created by, GASP, WHITE MEN….
I remember more than 30 years ago, when I lived in Iowa, that the president of the University of Iowa expressed the hope that they could get the student body there to be 8% black. Even now the state is less than 4% black.
“...hired volunteers workers who will be paid $25 an hour.”
Probably none of whom even know anything about the art collection, and the quality of the tours will be drastically reduced. You can bet that before long there will be reports of thefts, vandalism, assaults on visitors, and just generalized choas and disorder.
IF you are being paid $25 an hour-—you are NOT A VOLUNTEER.
That’s discrimination by definition.
Who gets to decide what “diverse enough” means?
Why is diversity good?
Why yes, WHITES would know NOTHING about Art Museums!!!!
Probably none of whom even know anything about the art collection, and the quality of the tours will be drastically reduced. You can bet that before long there will be reports of thefts, vandalism, assaults on visitors, and just generalized choas and disorder.
I’ve seen this in other museums. They are docents who stay glued to their chairs and don’t say a word. Like potted plants, basically. $25 an hour potted plants in this case.
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