I work for a major company and learned that diversity/equity/inclusion is going to be a part of the review process but they didn’t say how yet. This is ridiculous
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My employer's DIE initiatives are getting pushed more as well. But, I've got a plan.
Classic Gizortnik subversion.
One manager wants to push "celebrating heritage" as part of push for these DIE initiatives.
She wants to know who would volunteer for celebrating their heritage.
I intend to volunteer and celebrate my American heritage. I'm going to use the opportunity to do a bit of an impassioned lecture about Civic Nationalism from an American Liberal Revolutionary perspective, and push the idea that power mongers have sought to balkanize America with racial politics. I'm going to heavily emphasize that American values focus on individualism, liberty, responsibility, meritocracy, and property. I will not so subtly hint that focuses on grievance and collectivism are explicitly anti-American, that racial and ethnic collectivism is a lie of individualists using a fake collectives of blood, to form collectives of creed, for the sole purposes of power for themselves.
I'm actually thinking about trying to make ethno-nat "Amerimutt" and 'mongrelized' slur as a weapon against external ethnic affiliation itself, by arguing that American is the proper ethnic categorization of Americans who are too distant and disparate from their ancestor ethnicities. And that American sub-ethnicities are already too disparate and different from their former ancestral ethnicities to be considered the same. If I'm clever, I should be able to argue effectively that an American black is even more foreign to a Nubian than an American white.
I've already gotten some informal clearance from my direct superiors that making an aggressive civic nationalist argument would be perfectly acceptable. Hopefully, if I drop enough good lines from Booker T. Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Sowell, I should be able to break something in my mid-level manager's brain.
I'll probably want to include my line "Every Racist is a Race Traitor", and drop some bombs out of "Intellectuals And Race", and "Immigration and Cultures".
On the other hand, I intend to make it absolutely clear that I would walk right out of the company if I was ever prompted or requested to make DIE decisions on team members.
Very powerful plan. I may steal some of your ideas. You are right. I hate the term African American or hyphenated Americans. My African and European ancestors came here in the 1600s and 1700s. At this point I am very far removed from any African country and with it being so scattered I couldn’t even tell you what country
If it's that far back, you wouldn't have had one.
Effectively, African tribal relationships absolutely vanished in the Americas. Any sort of tribal lineage would have been lost. From that point on, it's an argument about becoming an "American Nation". I've previously talked about how the book "The Might of Nations" works to define what a Nation is as a political science concept. The American Revolution was filled with a lot of emphasis on building a "new nation of people", rather than simply a state. The nation of "Americans" were born out of the idea of "Liberty" by asserting that English Rights were universal within Liberal philosophy, and were entirely removed from the state and the monarchy. That these literally inalienable (inseparable) freedoms were bestowed upon the people themselves by God. Not bestowed as privileges and protections to subjects of a monarchy.
The basis of The American Experiment is about whether or not it is even possible to 'sink all differences and distinctions' into a name that represents new nation of people, dedicated to the idea of individual human liberty itself.
To throw all that away to claim affiliation with a people who do not know you, would not recognize you, who do not speak your language, and who's culture and values you do not share because some charlatan claimed that you had some sort of ancestral claim to their history (rather than your own) seems like an incredible waste.
Exactly. Hence I am an American. I’ll have to check out that book. Thanks!
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