What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?
The unsarcastic response is that “Critical Race Theory” is the concepts taught in educational institution which highlight how Racism has and continues to shape our society, and sometimes talks about the outcomes of various attempts to combat and repair these systemic failures.
They can and were used as IEDs when buried shallow and face-up with sharp rocks pressed against the screens.
They hold a lot of internal pressure, and a car driving over it would puncture the screen, causing the TV body to rapidly depressurize and explode upwards in a hail of glass shards.
This was how right-wing hero Pat Robertson was famously killed last year on his way to the annual youth slaughtering convention
The blatant racism around DEI fearmongering is really something terrible to behold. Funnily enough, the argument seems to be “racism/sexism isn’t a thing anymore so clearly these are just less competent people getting jobs cause woke.”
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn’t even owned or crewed by Americans.
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn’t even owned or crewed by Americans.
By whom?
The usual suspects.
What does dei mean?
It’s much of the MAGA Republican’s internal platform right now.
They believe DEI policies are a George Soros funded Global Progressive Communist plot to destroy society by destroying meritocracy for white men, and nuclear families.
So basically they think anyone who isn’t a white man is obviously bad at their job, and only got it because of being a minority. They believe this issue to be about racism (against whites).
They believe in equality of opportunity, but see ideological attempts aimed at hiring minorities as being about “equality of outcome” - and hence a kind of Communism.
They also don’t like Inclusion, because they think it’s aimed at making children gay and trans, and destroying “white culture/Christianity/marriage/family”.
Being used as a weapon, for example in the last shareholder meeting for GameStop
Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I’ve been to DEI trainings. It’s like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn’t make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?
I don’t know why, but this post has been like a mind virus to me, trying to intuit out the first ones using context clues. For those who don’t want to zoom in on pixels or google extensively, here:
| Term | Kind | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ??? ??? | - | Could be 5% sure this is “field hand” |
| ??? | - | About 30% sure this might be “servants” |
| Colored | Slur | A more acceptable form now in the modern term “person of color/POC” |
| Welfare Queens | Very Derogatory Pejorative | Term disproportionately associated with Black, single mothers, stereotyping them as intentionally committing welfare fraud |
| Urban | Pejorative | More of a euphemism, not so derogatory except in fairly specific contexts |
| PC | Satirical Pejorative | (Politically Correct); interesting because even among leftists it was mostly a form of self-satire before being adopted as a pejorative by conservatives; in modern use isn’t so much of a direct derogatory as a downplaying of discriminatory circumstances |
| SJW | Pejorative | (Social Justice Warrior); the least racially charged item in this list, just a pejorative for a progressive or leftist who is vocal |
| Woke | Vernacular / Pejorative | African American Vernacular English for alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination; co-opted by conservatives as a pejorative yet still largely used by all sides of the political spectrum despite generally having moved beyond the concept of race only |
| CRT | Technical | (Critical Race Theory); academic field considering racism to be systemic; despite being an entire field since the ‘60s, conservatives began seeking to ban the instruction of CRT in 2020 |
| DEI | Technical | (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion); linked values used to define organizational frameworks that better represent historically discriminated groups including those across race and gender; has been called into blame by conservatives for several tragedies, the blatantly racist implication being that people of color are being hired despite being ill-equipped to perform |