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English Touring Opera drops half its orchestra in controversial move, citing ‘increased diversity’ (www.classicfm.com)
posted 4 years ago by Eldourado 4 years ago by Eldourado +75 / -0
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– Galean 41 points 4 years ago +41 / -0

Who wants to bet that until now all those opera musicians were praising diversity initiatives online.

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– SupremeReader 42 points 4 years ago +42 / -0

In their response, the MU describes being “appalled” by the ETO’s decision and outlines that, “while the MU lauds efforts to increase diversity in the workplace, the Union is adamant this should be achieved fairly and legitimately, not by ‘sacking’ half an orchestra.”

lol

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 28 points 4 years ago +28 / -0

I thought it was a Touring Opera, not a Soap Opera. You don't get to change your character just because the season changes, Operettos.

Get a-woke, go baroque.

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– BidenLikesMiners 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

I see what you Djochek'ed there/

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– Norenia 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Dvorak are you talking about?

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– BidenLikesMiners 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

It wasnt that funny, forbach about it.

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– ThatYellowBastard 20 points 4 years ago +20 / -0

Supply and fucking demand idiots. They're demanding diversity with a limited supply of spots. Did they honestly think they'd make the orchestra bigger or something?

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– BlokeyMcBlokeFace 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

you_get_what_you_fucken_deserve.exe

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– Steampunk_Moustache 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

Useful idiots got what they deserved. What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

Did they think the orchestra was just going to get bigger and bigger and make make room for all the new brown people without any of them getting thrown out?

Or did they think those in charge would be content to sit around and wait 40 years for them to retire before they replaced them?

They asked for white people to be replaced, and white people got replaced. That's what your pathological altruism gets you.

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– Oppressinator 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Ah yes, all the examples of it happening fairly an legitimately:

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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

They'll probably just continue to praise it and, at worst, they'll think their dismissal was a "mistake."

cf. The loyal communists who got thrown in the gulags with Solzhenitsyn and friends

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– SupremeReader 27 points 4 years ago +27 / -0

Read more: All-Black classical symphony orchestra to play Carnegie Hall for first time in its 130-year history

I see a rainbow and I want to paint it black

No colors anymore, I want them to turn black

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– ThatYellowBastard 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0

Post just those two lines on any diversity article or tweet and watch how fast that song will be canceled.

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– MrGiggles 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

Diversity and inclusion is the most ingenious corporate astroturfing project in history. The normies celebrate “progress” as they are forced into destitution. Don’t like losing your job to an enslaved Pajeet? Clearly you are a racist!

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– bangbus 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

It’s a brilliant move to promote “progress.” Coke can literally never become environmentally friendly. It can never be healthy. But it sure as shit can become woke. “Eat us last, look at how fucking woke we are!!!!”

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– BigOT 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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– BidenLikesMiners 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

“There has been an understandable outcry from Musicians Union members in response to this news today,” the Musicians Union (MU) wrote in a statement on Friday (10 September). “It comes at an especially devastating time for the freelance community, and musicians in general, with so many struggling with little work and income during the COVID-19 crisis.”

Holy shit lmao, they fired the orchaestra to be woke. The rest of the orchaestra should quit/

In their response, the MU describes being “appalled” by the ETO’s decision and outlines that, “while the MU lauds efforts to increase diversity in the workplace, the Union is adamant this should be achieved fairly and legitimately, not by ‘sacking’ half an orchestra.”

#When going woke goes wrong!

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– ah_hell 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Does going woke ever go right?

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– HeavyVaccineGun 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

No, it only goes left

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– BidenLikesMiners 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

It goes right when it exposes its own hypocrisy. Thats the only time.

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– Piroko 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Drops half its orchestra

So they cut all the strings became the English Touring Brass Band?

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– Feelsgood2020 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

This sounds like a great argument to support an ethno state. Proof of your grandchildren being denied work because of the flood of migrants.

Europeans are 8% of the global population. They win through discipline and a meritocracy and not through numbers.

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– deleted 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0
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– xleb2 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

Imagine translating Italian into Pashtun.

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– deleted 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0
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– BidenLikesMiners 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

Its not surprising, thats one of the astroturf sub,s they only allow hwite man bad posts, and stuff that sucks tranny benises.

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– Oppressinator 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

All fun and games until a marine caves in a womans face on live television then its progress.

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– deleted 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0
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– DefinitelyNotIGN 35 points 4 years ago +35 / -0

They stopped blind auditions when it led to not enough "diversity".

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– raven0ak 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

similarly as when blind hiring was on to increase women hiring, men got hired more ... aka turns out all of time there has been bias for hiring "opressed" over skill

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– BlokeyMcBlokeFace 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

At least have auditions and pick the best musicians.

That's the last thing they want because they know it will end exactly like we all know it will.

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– current_horror 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

That’s how they staffed the opera in the first place.

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– deleted 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

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