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Related: This wild… DEI is coming for the hard sciences at Rice University, with a class called "Afrochemistry." The class "will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry… and inequities in chemistry and chemical education.” Of course, "there is no final exam." pic.twitter.com/bzfk7jkZ2W — John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) January 14, 2024
Because if there’s one group of people who deserves to be in a position where the responsibility for peoples’ lives are in their hands, it’s people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. h/t Qplus17
by Qplus17 With Oregon having no math, reading and writing exit exams, and these people are joining the job markets….holy hell it is a matter of time before someone dies from ineptitude.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1744821198867902843 Progressives definitely will accept more flying deaths in service of the DEI agenda. No question about this. Air safety is also hard to measure in context. US commercial crashes and incidents could double and remain statistically tiny and thus the system would remain very… — Jeff Deist (@jeffdeist) January 9, 2024 h/t LoneStarRising
Even the LA Times admits, woke companies are being forced to rethink race-based, discriminatory diversity hiring programs. Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling last summer striking down affirmative action in education, Stephen Miller and his conservative advocacy organization America First Legal have taken the position that all DEI programs are illegal, embracing “reverse discrimination,” a …
The decline in holiday hiring to the lowest level in about five years, with only 135,000 hires, reflects shifting consumer behavior. Black Friday, once a bustling shopping event, appeared subdued this year, and retailers face challenges amid changing trends. TD Cowen lowered its U.S. holiday spending estimate due to flat Black Friday traffic, and early …
The CEO of British Telecom giant BT is reportedly firing some 1,100 employees in overwhelmingly white rural East Anglia with the intention of replacing them with non-whites from major cities in order to “boost diversity” and potentially pocket a £220,000 bonus for hitting “diversity targets.” https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63986 https://twitter.com/_/status/1705861726699196658 2005: We need immigrants to do the jobs …
via fortune Salesforce is hiring (again) after laying off about 10% of its staff earlier this year—and its former workers are being encouraged to apply to the company’s 3,300 new roles across sales, engineering, and data cloud. … Now, attracting boomerangs is a new success metric for the company with Benioff even outlining that his …
I just can’t … roflmao … the irony is too much 🤣🤣 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2023 Affirmative action style preferences have no place in American society pic.twitter.com/xzaEdKoqVs — The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) August 26, 2023 h/t BFD
Are illegal aliens included in the language about discrimination in the US Constitution, Mr. Bad President? They are not guaranteed a damn thing, not by law; they shouldn’t even be here; give them rights to jobs; and sue a company for not hiring illegal aliens. UPDATES: The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against SpaceX …
An incredible photo has Twitter users divided over the age of police officers, with one person saying “they’re getting younger and younger”. The image features two recent recruits, Alfie and Noah, from West Yorkshire Police, proudly posing. However, their youthful appearance has ignited a wave of comments, some of which are far from kind. After …
A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees. Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California. The company had …
LinkedIn says that the next big job-market change is hiring on the basis of skills rather than degrees. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 13, 2023
via naturalnews: Over the past five years, East Coast-based grocery chain Giant Food has seen a tenfold increase in retail theft, which has prompted the company to restrict entry and exit points, beef up store security – some of them armed at certain locations – and pulling high-dollar items from shelves so as to deter thieves. It …