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Reality is a bit more nuanced than the headline (colour me surprised) but imagine the furore if a CEO took the same approach to black or female recruits. Think Aviva (one of my former clients) could be setting themselves up for legal problems here.
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@Victor-Meldrew "Ms Blanc suffered a torrent of sexist abuse at the FTSE 100 company’s annual general meeting last year, when an investor said she was “not the man for the job” and another asked whether she should be “wearing trousers”."
I may have to look up the definition of torrent and abuse again if that was the sum total of it. I've been to hostile AGMs, and the language can get very fruity. I'm not here to trivialise sexist remarks FWIW.
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@stodders said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@Victor-Meldrew "Ms Blanc suffered a torrent of sexist abuse at the FTSE 100 company’s annual general meeting last year, when an investor said she was “not the man for the job” and another asked whether she should be “wearing trousers”."
I may have to look up the definition of torrent and abuse again if that was the sum total of it. I've been to hostile AGMs, and the language can get very fruity. I'm not here to trivialise sexist remarks FWIW.
Well, the Aviva CEO I worked for years back was very definitely female. She was also very competent.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Reality is a bit more nuanced than the headline (colour me surprised) but imagine the furore if a CEO took the same approach to black or female recruits. Think Aviva (one of my former clients) could be setting themselves up for legal problems here.
Been this way for years.
Talent rarely goes to financial services anymore.
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I actually don't mind this sort of stuff - celebrating & sharing culture is interesting and cool. It's when it crosses over into guilt, finger-pointing & coercive "celebration of diversity" that it gets on my tits.
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@Victor-Meldrew the issue in Oz is the perception that this is all made up and has no real cultural value. Especially when no one has seen it before, and the "welcome to country" is well known to be a recent invention.
My suspicion is that because there's considerable difference between Australia and other countries when it comes to indigenous culture, it becomes a difficult proposition for the public at large to genuinely accept and celebrate.
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@antipodean said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
"welcome to country" is well known to be a recent invention.
And is the worst, cringe, kitsch garbage in public life.
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@Tim said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@antipodean said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
"welcome to country" is well known to be a recent invention.
And is the worst, cringe, kitsch garbage in public life.
Literally every meeting with my last government client started with the acknowledgement to 'leaders past, present and emerging'. Even when there weren't any in the meeting. Rote idiocy by people terrified that their careers would be over if they didn't participate in the modern left version of a pledge of allegiance.
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The BBC puts an outstanding black actor, David Jonsson, who fits the lead role in an Agatha Christie adaptation.....and can't resist making it a statement about colonialism
"I wanted to start the show in the way that shows about black people have always begun: with a black running through a forest apparently being chased by something, in a white shirt"
The BBC - reinforcing racial stereotypes for the modern world.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/27/bbc-new-agatha-christie-allegory-colonialism-director/
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I predict punch-ups in the Tooting Gay & Trans Rights Animal Liberation Front Annual General Meeting....
F off with the damn PC Brigade