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@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
this weeks big corp update. Usual restructure bollicks going on.
co-worker spoken too by manager. They'd made someone in their team feel uncomfortable - because they asked that person "are you ok?"
I have zero idea of the mindset required to complain to your manager about those 3 words.
What possible could the manager say to that? "Don't give a fuck about your co-workers you animal?"
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@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
this weeks big corp update. Usual restructure bollicks going on.
co-worker spoken too by manager. They'd made someone in their team feel uncomfortable - because they asked that person "are you ok?"
I have zero idea of the mindset required to complain to your manager about those 3 words.
Aren't we encouraged to ask this?
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@kirwan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
this weeks big corp update. Usual restructure bollicks going on.
co-worker spoken too by manager. They'd made someone in their team feel uncomfortable - because they asked that person "are you ok?"
I have zero idea of the mindset required to complain to your manager about those 3 words.
What possible could the manager say to that? "Don't give a fuck about your co-workers you animal?"
this is what I don't get in this environment. You don't always need to say to the person complaining that they're right - you can actually say.. yeh nah that's fucking stupid. But no one does.
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Interesting article on the Woke Privileged in the UK keeping out the riff-raff and oiks from the top jobs (in the Daily Mail of all places). Even more surprisingly, it offers a sensible suggestion to reduce the problem.
(tried to precis it, but probably easier to read the whole thing)
children of the rich and famous, a foot in the door to those glittering careers shut to us mere mortals ETAN SMALLMAN JULY 28, 2021 Arose by any other name would smell as sweet, opined William Shakespeare. But would the child of a famous or successful figure, by any other name, be just as employable? To mere civilians, the gates around the creative industries – acting, writing and TV – seem sky-high and reinforced by maximum-security locks. All the while, it can often appear that those with the right lineage have a guaranteed seat in the front row. Those on the receiving end of rarefied genes cry: ‘It’s only an in! We’d be out on our ear if we weren’t talented.’ At the same time, the unlucky majority uninvited to the party could tell you the cold truth through bitter experience: it is getting the foot in the door that is the crucial – and hardest – part. The latest in a very long line of such beneficiaries is Boris Johnson’s daughter Lara, who inevitably made headlines this week as writer of, and model for, an article on the new breed of shapewear in Tatler, where she is contributing editor. Her name blares from one of the cover lines – a strange thing for a relatively unknown 28-year-old writer. Of course, she may be a very talented journalist. Though perhaps having the daughter of the serving Prime Minister modelling underwear was the driving consideration in the editor’s prominent placement. But the Johnsons know all about the power of a shared name. Boris gave a ministerial job to his brother Jo before he resigned six weeks later because he was ‘torn between family loyalty and the national interest’ (in what kind of functioning democracy does ‘family loyalty’ even come into it?). Boris later rewarded Jo with a peerage. We used to debate whether journalism was a profession or a trade. I sometimes wonder if it is closer to a hereditary monarchy. The most recent general election night coverage was the BBC’s first not to include a Dimbleby since the early 1950s. Alan Coren’s son Giles got his break on The Times ‘because my dad was a famous columnist on the paper and that was how it worked back then, and sometimes still does’. Flora Gill, daughter of the late writer AA Gill, succeeded in getting her first radio show opposite her mother, ex-home secretary Amber Rudd. Look at the parade of celebrity progeny hoovering up plum jobs in the arts and it seems the advantage of proximity to a dynasty becomes undeniable. Take TV names such as Jack Whitehall, the godson of actors Nigel Havers and Richard Griffiths, a talented comedian, no doubt, but – he has admitted – one also helped by the copious industry connections in his family. His first telly role was in a series starring Havers and produced by his theatrical agent father, who also secured him a private audition for the Harry Potter films: 'My Dad, being an agent at the time, said: "This is nonsense, Jack, we're not sending you off to some open audition. They never find anyone from an open audition. I'll get you a one-to-one because I know David Heyman's [the producer] mother, I used to work with her." Try finding a major TV drama not showcasing what Grazia magazine has called ‘celebrity spawn privilege’ – the extra stardust seemingly sprinkled on those related to high-powered names. There was Normal People (its star Daisy Edgar-Jones is daughter of the head of entertainment at Sky), Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor is daughter of Coronation Street’s Sally) and The Pursuit of Love (Emily Mortimer is daughter of dramatist Sir John Mortimer; Freddie Fox is godson of Sir John and son of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David – also cast in the show; Beattie Edmondson is daughter of actors Ade Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders; and Dolly Wells is daughter of actor John Wells. Mortimer also handed roles to her own mother and two children. Are we really saying that acting ability is hereditary? Or are producers just fishing in the tiniest of available talent puddles? In politics too, the same names crop up through the generations. According to the House of Commons Library, there are 50 MPs related to current or former members. Labour’s Hilary Benn and the Tories’ Geoffrey Clifton-Brown are the descendants of no fewer than four ex-MPs apiece. Could it be that local parties might be seduced by a political dynasty too when selecting their candidates? In whatever field, no public figure can heartily insist their children made it on merit while also bestowing them with acres of column inches thanks to frequent joint interviews in which they wax lyrical about each other. And you can’t boast about opening up your profession to working-class or ethnic-minority talent AND keep it in the (usually wealthy and white) family Of course, it is not the fault of the recipients of the charmed monikers. The blame lies squarely with those offering the work to a growing army of famous family members – as everyone else is left to fight for the scraps. I am not even saying that they aren’t up to the job. The point is that this is a zero-sum game – every role that gets handed to someone with special access is one not even open to the hordes of just-as-talented nobodies trying desperately to get their opportunity. It would help everyone – the ordinary folk bashing down the doors and the children of the creative elites who feel unfairly judged for their inheritance – if organisations were clear that no strings can be pulled. All companies should have a basic transparency policy in the same way that staff have to declare other conflicts of interest. Anyone trying to jump the queue should be told plainly to join the back. And – on the specific occasions where unfair preferment does occur – we should never defend a kind of low-level corruption as a natural and noble parental impulse any more than we would argue for tripping up your child’s rival at a sports day. Most of us are sick of hearing the nation’s most gilded class claiming to be liberal and progressive defenders of equal opportunities, while crowing about privilege-checking – for everyone but their own lucky darlings
The main issue I have with this is the increasing trend of wokeness to not just be virtuous SJW yourself - in order to prove that your woke you must indulge in some sort of bizarre child sacrifice where you intentionally make your children's lives worse to pay for your "privilege".
Sure it's easy to pass this off as it references "rich entertainment types" however if the principle is carried through where are we to draw the line?
I got through University working in my Dads kiwifruit gang, every school holidays out there slogging away in the orchard to get $$ to go to Uni. Should my Dad not have given me the job as he had the privilege's of being white kiwifruit crew owners supplemented by migrant workers? Should he have spurned me and chosen someone else? Would appear if were going to be truly woke then yes...
Obviously my Dad was just a white supremacist's using his privilege to get his own kids ahead of other, more deserving people which is a bit sad as I always thought the was a good bloke trying his best to look after his children...
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@windows97 said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Obviously my Dad was just a white supremacist's using his privilege to get his own kids ahead of other, more deserving people which is a bit sad as I always thought the was a good bloke trying his best to look after his children...
To be honest, its' getting to the point that if your parent is/was white, they are/were a white supremacist. Nobody outlines this better than Titania McGrath.
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@tim said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Our very own Massey university.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=402040
Institute of Education
Often the worst part of any university.
Correct if me if I am wrong but Massey has been falling (and gutting themselves) for some time. I imagine their land holdings in Palmie are pretty good, and their land in Albany is a goldmine (waiting for it to be a transport hub? Not sure what they are doing there). Own a lot of land but seem clueless on good use of their assets (or staff, although I imagine agriculture could still be doing ok).
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@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
this weeks big corp update. Usual restructure bollicks going on.
co-worker spoken too by manager. They'd made someone in their team feel uncomfortable - because they asked that person "are you ok?"
I have zero idea of the mindset required to complain to your manager about those 3 words.
I could imagine it said in a certain way to imply someone isn't normal (add air quotes) but out of context it sounds a bit weird.
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
I’m going to keep on keeping on, and if anyone questions me I’ll explain to them that I have lapses of clarity due to too many concussions
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@williethewaiter fuck all those restructures, we deal with them as a 'customer' of your company and seriously they have overloaded the staff something stupid, given roles to people jot properly trained or incompetents who have been there for years and this causes us headaches and having to fix errors they make.
Then there is the outsourcing too 🙄
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@taniwharugby said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter fuck all those restructures, we deal with them as a 'customer' of your company and seriously they have overloaded the staff something stupid, given roles to people jot properly trained or incompetents who have been there for years and this causes us headaches and having to fix errors they make.
Then there is the outsourcing too 🙄
But are they diverse?
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This is a real course at Cornell University - and is one of the weirdest things I've ever read.
Featured Course - Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos
Conventional wisdom would have it that the “black” in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection. Theorists use astronomy concepts like “black holes” and “event horizons” to interpret the history of race in creative ways, while artists and musicians conjure blackness through cosmological themes and images. Co-taught by professors in Comparative Literature and Astronomy, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies. We will experiment with what it means to engage with astrophysics concepts both inside and outside of the disciplinary framework of astronomy—for example, in genres like film, afrofuturist science fiction, and critical theory. Do astronomy concepts lose coherence outside of their scientific contexts, or do they acquire a different kind of sense? Why are humanities scholars everlastingly drawn toward the stars? In particular, what do artists and theoreticians of color gain from turning identity politics toward cosmological reflection? Texts will include works by theorists like Michelle Wright and Denise Ferreira da Silva, authors like Octavia Butler and Dionne Brand, and others. Astronomy concepts will include the electromagnetic spectrum, stellar evolution, and general relativity.
https://complit.cornell.edu/featured-course---black-holes-race-and-cosmos
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The crazy PC Brigade (in Scotland again) want to take on The Tiger Who Came For Tea. My money is on the tiger.
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@sparky said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The crazy PC Brigade (in Scotland again) want to take on The Tiger Who Came For Tea. My money is on the tiger.
Righto, so seeing as this book was read to me multiple times as a youngster I’m going to become a rapist.
Gotcha.
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@sparky said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The crazy PC Brigade (in Scotland again) want to take on The Tiger Who Came For Tea. My money is on the tiger.
I have zero tolerance for her shit.
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Brilliant!
F off with the damn PC Brigade