Somewhat off-topic, if I can be candid, there are a lot of low-information “conservatives” out there chanting DEI every time something goes kaboom.
The biggest example was Silicon Valley Bank. There was some midtier risk manager who was flying her diversity flag on LinkedIn. The low information types saw that, and blamed her for the collapse. They even called her SVB’s chief risk officer, despite the fact that she was in the UK, AND that SVB lacked a CRO for months.
The mob kept chanting “DEI” and looked like idiots. And made us look like we can’t do basic research.
There haven’t even been funerals for the construction workers killed in the bridge collapse, and dopes on our side are acting like knee-jerk leftists after a shooting.
Diversity in the Christian sense, where we are all equal before God and you should treat your brother with kindness and respect, is wonderful. I’ve worked with people from all over the world: there are bright blacks, whites, and folks from Asia and idiots in those camps as well. Groupthink is a bad thing.
If you really want to beat up DEI, Bud Light is THE case study. This bridge collapse? It’s premature to blame DEI at best, and frankly the overlap with the mob on the SVB diversity bandwagon has zero credibility.
I think you are underestimating the completely corrosive effects by DEI and Affirmative Action on society and industry.
Nothing personal here, but you don’t sound as if you realize this DEI poison is being baked into society in general and industry in particular, and the overall effect is disastrous.
DEI and Affirmative Action are, and have been for some time, being encoded into investment, so that investors on a large scale are NOT being encouraged to invest money in competency, but instead are being steered into investing in entities that, instead of focusing on quality and competency, focus on how many women occupy positions in management, or how many minorities are piloting aircraft.
The overall debilitating effect is not a Chicken Little event, it is real. It isn’t people squawking about DEI because they don’t know anything else. It is real.
Damned real.
I am not the only one who is noticing that things are beginning to fail in this country. One of the best things about this country, and anyone who has ever traveled extensively or lived in other countries as I have, knows this, is that people wanted to come to America because things just worked.
You could turn on a water faucet nearly anywhere, water would come out, and you could drink from it with a reasonable degree of safety. If there was an elevator, it worked. If there was a street light, when it got dark, it illuminated.
These types of things seem small, and individually, they are. But collectively, they are meaningful.
In our daily lives, there is far less competency in this society, and it is reaching into every sector. And things like DEI and Affirmative Action are major contributors to this degradation.
In this particular incident, nobody knows yet. It could be terrorism. It could be incompetency. And it could be something that was unavoidable and due to neither of those things such as a bird being sucked into the intake of a jet engine causing a crash.
But anyone who has ever taken the time to study mishaps in ANY arena knows that at the very top of the pyramid of causes, it is almost ALWAYS human error involved. It is rare when erroneous human action does not contribute in a major way to an incident.
In this case, sure, it is a possibility they might have lost power for some completely unforeseeable and unavoidable reason, and did not have time to take appropriate action.
But that is far less likely than a ship experiencing an engine casualty caused by poor maintenance, exacerbated by poor or inadequate training, compounded by administrators who didn’t ensure competency or spend the money for the appropriate maintenance.
If you can’t tell the difference between a knee-jerk leftist who advocates banning guns after a mass shooting, and people who look at an airplane crash and suspect (rightly so in nearly all cases) that incompetent or flawed humans (which DEI and Affirmative Action BY THEIR INHERENT NATURE promote) are always the first weak link to examine in the chain of events, then I think you should re-examine your premises.
In this case, where the mayor decides to play the race card, that says volumes about him, and none of it good.
By the way, this isn’t meant as an attack on you. I have read your posts for many years and respect your views as generally well thought out.
I feel very strongly on this subject.
DEI and Bud Light is an exercise in stupidity, that is certain. But Bud Light is simply bad beer, and that stupidity may only bring down what was once a cultural icon, and the wages of that idiocy means people will lose money and jobs.
DEI in military actions, air traffic control, aircraft design, training, and operation are exercises in death and destruction.
And that goes for maritime operations of seagoing vessels as well.