Stealing Graceland - pretty amazing

Good thing that governors and state legislatures spend time on really important things like shutting down DEI departments or worrying about what pronoun you address someone by. Meanwhile, everyone will swear up and down that there is not much they can do to stop this.

 

Scammers gonna scam.

 

I thought this post was going to be a movie review.

 

It’s worse than that.

First we had years of state governors and legislatures wasting time creating DEI and other useless bullshit and then subsequent years with the same legislative bodies undoing it.

 

Admit it. You’d never heard of CRT, DEI, or the occasional trans athlete before your “newz” sources started pumping those stories into your veins.

The “creation” of such programs I don’t think was ever much of a political priority for anyone. The “destruction” of said programs on the other hand ranks pretty high in the former confederacy.

 

Wrong. You should quit while you were only a little behind. Unlike most of you libbies here I went to one of the first integrated middle schools in Orange County the first year it was integrated. I also went to Evans High School, one of the two heavily integrated high schools in Orange County. Anyone from Central Florida is familiar with “Crime Hills” and Evans High. Played JV basketball while our varsity was led by Chocolate Thunder himself, Darryl Dawkins.

After UF and because of my background and ability to work with and damned near everyone I was selected as one of the first facilitators in our then Diversity training program and helped write the program from multiple other sources with people of different genders, races, and religions. Did that for several years and people lined up to take the training. It want even mandatory, but very popular. After a few years folks like you took it over and it was no longer productive enough for me to waist my time on. People didn’t walk out enlightened anymore, they just felt like they had wasted three hours because by then it was mandatory.

So don’t come at me with you democrat horseshit about not knowing what CRT and DEI are.

PS. Darryl was a great guy and one hell of an athlete, not just a tall basketball player I wish he had gone to one of the major colleges that were at every game to play before he went pro. He wasn’t ready for that.

 

Translation: "One of my best friends is black."

 

Translation: Aging just owned Bling and no one has a good comeback for it.

 

You libs just don’t like it when someone who has walked the walk stuffs your hypocrisy up your asses.

 

From what I can tell he's taking credit for starting DEI

 

Do you need a hug, sounds like you need one because you didnt get the parade you think you deserve

 

Ha. It was incoherent babble. Perhaps that is why nobody bothered responding? I figured JMDZ nailed it succinctly.

But if you want a babbling response to babble: here it is.

Aging claims to be an expert on DEI because he went to an integrated school and “got along with everybody”. Wut? That’s it? That qualified him as a DEI “expert”?

I will concede that CRT is the term I believe nobody had heard before 2021. If Aging worked on a DEI program (assuming it was actually called that), then fair enough - I shouldn’t have lumped both together. So maybe he heard that term before it became political. But id argue if the standard for hiring a DEI leader was to give it to “the white guy who went to the integrated school and gets along with everybody”, that just shows how comically unserious and… unscientific it all was at that time.

I’m not even defending DEI programs either way BTW. I’m sure if we took a deep dive into any one program we find flaws. Maybe one company uses it for PR. Maybe another uses it to “pad stats”, a sort of false diversity to cover up failures elsewhere in the organization. I tend to think a lot of it really is PR-adjacent fluff. Probably mixed results at best, with a slight “better than nothing” bias to have people at least purportedly looking at the issue inside a major organization. Yet, I do have an opinion on those who would prioritize the dismantling of diversity. Look at a chud like Stephen Miller who goes after private company outreach and diversity programs. Where is the Republicans pushback? Doesn’t exist.

 

It is my overwhelming experience that people who feel the need to expend energy explaining why they are not prejudiced, are. Those who aren't, don't.

 

Things I've learned on TH:

Can't really understand terrorism unless you've been in a fight
Can't understand what cops go through unless you used to play basketball in "the hood"
Can't understand DEI/CRT unless you participated in a diversity program around the time Darryl Dawkins (someone who is no longer alive FWIW) was a young man
Can't understand communism/socialism unless you have relatives from a place where communism was/is even though they/you never lived there yourself

 

Talk about incoherent babbling????

 

Exactly.

 

Ain’t trying to get walked-stuffed. I also don’t know what it is but just sounds not life affirming.