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In a continuing rowing back of regulation, The Financial Conduct Authority & the Prudential Regulation Authority have both shelved plans to get financial services to disclose more about their (claimed) diversity & inclusion policies...
What, really annoys me is that these policies are regarded as 'anti-growth' rather than seeing the prejudice that keeps a range of social groups out of top jobs is not pro-growth, rather its a calamitous under-use of talented individuals!
#prejudice
h/t FT
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Physiognomy,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/75545…
global tribalism
it's what's for breakfast
again
every day , actually ...
every ... day ...
>How My Mom Overcame Her #Prejudice | Talking Politics With Mom | Episode 10<
Das neoliberale Storrytelling ueber die angebliche Eigenverantwortung in Bereichen, wo es vielmehr um Strukturfragen und negative Lenkungswirkungen geht, wird in dieser Folge gut analysiert und vor allem die Verbindung zur rassistisch - sozialen Diskriminierung gezogen.
Wir existieren sowohl in den #USA, als auch mit etwas veränderten Konstellationen in #Europa im Modus multipler #Krisen
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Pretending #prejudice, #discrimination, and #stereotypes somehow simply cannot exist in certain situations doesn't help. Pretending that can't cause harm doesn't help. Denying realities doesn't solve problems.
The meta-problem (I think) is that the people claiming "reverse racism" etc. often have an anti-equality agenda. That agenda should be resisted.
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Gonna say another #unpopularopinion : #racism / #ableism / #misogyny / #anti-LGBTQIA+ hate on the #fediverse are serious problem (as they are everywhere, though that is no excuse). However, screaming "prejudice by [marginalized group] against [less marginalized or dominant group] doesn't exist!" isn't going to help.
#Prejudice, #discrimination, and #stereotypes can (and do) happen based on our brains, our experiences, & our social structures.
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"We are all prisoners of our own thinking, and until we free ourselves from it, we will remain blind to what is true." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
#nature #blindness #prejudice #observing #leaves #choices
#nature #blindness #prejudice #observing #leaves #choices
would it be anything to respond to "there's no way to know if this non-(cis/het/abled/white/male) person got their position through merit or #dei" with "there's no way to know if this CHAWM got their position through merit or #prejudice"
obviously this won't convince the folks who are just... super racist and looking for excuses, but there's a non-zero number of folks who've been suckered but aren't totally lost
this might be nothing but it's been on my mind
The social networks are the toxic promotion of the female superficiality, in the purpose of glorifying the men and their traditional misogyny. The user is a simple food for the machine of capitalism, and of social prejudices.
#Misogyny
#Capitalism
#Appearance
#Business
#Prejudice
#WomansTalk
#RochAliciaMira
And now, a moment.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
- Mark Twain
Boy Meets World, Season 1 Episode 8.... I've watched this series over and over and over again but this episode hits different now.
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#bannedword of the day: #prejudice #Vorurteil
"an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge"
There should not be any prejudices, but as we live in a word with many unfair and unreasonable opinions, we definitely need this word.
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I get why #Trump wants #blsckhistorymonth gone, HEPES #racist but I thought he was doubling down with #Israel, why does he want to drop #holocaustremembranceday?
#prejudice : a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it
- French: préjugé
- German: das Vorurteil
- Italian: pregiudizio
- Portuguese: prejuízo
- Spanish: prejuicio
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Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include #female, #disability, and #LGBT, among a host of others.
The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found, which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed.
According to the Washington Post, a word like #women appearing will get the content flagged, but it will need to be manually reviewed to determine if the context of the word is related to a forbidden topic under the anti-DEI order. Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word #women is on the forbidden list while #men doesn’t initiate a review.
Straight white men are seen through the #MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.
Some of the terms that are getting flagged are particularly eyebrow-raising in light of the Nazi salutes that Trump supporters have been giving since he took office. For example, the term #hateSpeech will get a paper at NSF flagged for further review. Redefining terms like #hateSpeech is obviously part of the fascist project.
Darby Saxbe, a professor at the University of Southern California, tweeted the list of banned words on Monday, including a decision tree she says had been sent to all program officers at NSF.
Forbidden keywords that initiate a review at NSF, according to Saxbe:
#activism
#activists
#advocacy
#advocate
#advocates
#barrier
#barriers
#biased
#biasedToward
#biases
#biasesTowards
#BIPOC
#BlackAndLatinx
#CommunityDiversity
#CommunityEquity
#CulturalDifferences
#CulturalHeritage
#CulturallyResponsive
#Disabilities
#Disability
#Discriminated
#Discrimination
#Discriminatory
#DiverseBackgrounds
#DiverseCommunities
#DiverseCommunity
#DiverseGroup
#DiverseGroups
#Diversified
#Diversify
#Diversifying
#DiversityAndInclusion
#DiversityEquity
#EnhanceTheDiversity
#EnhancingDiversity
#EqualOpportunity
#Equality
#Equitable
#Equity
#Ethnicity
#Excluded
#Female
#Females
#FosteringInclusivity
#Gender
#GenderDiversity
#Genders
#HateSpeech
#HispanicMinority
#Historically
#ImplicitBias
#ImplicitBiases
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#Inclusiveness
#Inclusivity
#IncreaseDiversity
#IncreaseTheDiversity
#IndigenousCommunity
#Inequalities
#Inequality
#Inequitable
#Inequities
#Institutional
#LGBT
#Marginalize
#Marginalized
#Minorities
#Minority
#Multicultural
#Polarization
#Political
#Prejudice
#Privileges
#PromotingDiversity
#RaceAndEthnicity
#Racial
#RacialDiversity
#RacialInequality
#RacialJustice
#Racially
#Racism
#SenseOfBelonging
#SexualPreferences
#SocialJustice
#Sociocultural
#Socioeconomic
#Status
#Stereotypes
#Systemic
#Trauma
#UnderAppreciated
#UnderRepresented
#UnderServed
#Underrepresentation
#Underrepresented
#Underserved
#Undervalued
#Victim
#Women
#WomenAndUnderrepresented
#Trump #ForbiddenWords #DEI #ExecutiveOrder #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #Women #LGBT #Disability #MAGA #HateSpeech #Fascism #Censorship #PoliticalAgenda #WokeCulture #SocialJustice #IdentityPolitics #USPolitics #GenderEquality #CivilRights #PoliticalControl
Gizmodo · The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSFIt's fascism, plain and simple.
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It's been proposed on fedi that with the NSA being handed a new 'naughty word' list today that including them in your communications might keep them from eavesdropping, not sure if it'll work but i'm start sprinkling these hashtags into all my posts 
#Bias
#DEI
#Diversity
#Diverse
#ConfirmationBias
#Equity
#Equitableness
#Feminism
#Gender
#GenderIdentity
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#AllInclusive
#Inclusivity
#Injustice
#Intersectionality
#Prejudice
#Privilege
#RacialIdentity
#Sexuality
#Stereotypes
This is today's code-generated texture, right after I read about these endangered words. I don't know what to do about it, so I'll continue creating things.
A quotation from Judith Martin
Etiquette systems of one kind or another govern all social intercourse, formal and informal, which is why faulty ones are able to do so much damage. A system that denies the innate human need for dignity to specific categories of people, typically the poor and the enslaved, fosters incendiary resentment.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Star-Spangled Manners, ch. 1 (2003)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/74659/