They don't care. I told my boss I wasn't on board with the social justice and implicit bias stuff, and he had me speak with his boss to see if the company could do anything. I didn't even say anything power-level revealing: I just described basic values that literally anyone who was born in the 80s would have been taught in school with regards to race relations: "equality of opportunity" and "colorblind society" tier stuff.
The response was (I'm paraphrasing but not by much) "OK well now people are starting to see that line of thinking as outdated and flawed"
They don't care. Your line of thinking is obsolete and to be discarded. Standing up to it would be like an atheist at church standing up against the priest while he's giving a sermon. At best they'll put up with you; at worst they'll just throw you out.
This year we head new training with stuff like microaggression and protected class, this was on top of the LGBT and other crap. You could post feedback anonymously after the course but now I noticed that the feedback page no longer said anonymously, it may be just an error and it is still anonymous but I did not take the chance, considering the industry habit of having white males first to be fired when downsizing and COVID induced recession on the horizon I need to keep a low profile.
I wanted to point out in the feedback the same thing, you are basically asking us to treat people different based on race and gender and the end result is that no one will interact with others except when you had to and no personal connections will be formed and no desire to help others if you did not absolutely had to.
It was actually in the course that if a black person speaks you should think before interrupting or it could be a microaggression
I’m so sick of this. The fact money is wasted on this garbage is pretty eye opening
True but I’m honestly shocked people there aren’t standing up to this. Decolonize is such a stupid term.
They don't care. I told my boss I wasn't on board with the social justice and implicit bias stuff, and he had me speak with his boss to see if the company could do anything. I didn't even say anything power-level revealing: I just described basic values that literally anyone who was born in the 80s would have been taught in school with regards to race relations: "equality of opportunity" and "colorblind society" tier stuff.
The response was (I'm paraphrasing but not by much) "OK well now people are starting to see that line of thinking as outdated and flawed"
They don't care. Your line of thinking is obsolete and to be discarded. Standing up to it would be like an atheist at church standing up against the priest while he's giving a sermon. At best they'll put up with you; at worst they'll just throw you out.
This year we head new training with stuff like microaggression and protected class, this was on top of the LGBT and other crap. You could post feedback anonymously after the course but now I noticed that the feedback page no longer said anonymously, it may be just an error and it is still anonymous but I did not take the chance, considering the industry habit of having white males first to be fired when downsizing and COVID induced recession on the horizon I need to keep a low profile.
I wanted to point out in the feedback the same thing, you are basically asking us to treat people different based on race and gender and the end result is that no one will interact with others except when you had to and no personal connections will be formed and no desire to help others if you did not absolutely had to.
It was actually in the course that if a black person speaks you should think before interrupting or it could be a microaggression