What's wrong with cathode ray tubes?
The unsarcastic response is that "Critical Race Theory" is the concepts taught in educational institution which highlight how Racism has and continues to shape our society, and sometimes talks about the outcomes of various attempts to combat and repair these systemic failures.
I just don't want them in our schools. Pointing particle accelerators at my kids makes me nervous.
They can and were used as IEDs when buried shallow and face-up with sharp rocks pressed against the screens.
They hold a lot of internal pressure, and a car driving over it would puncture the screen, causing the TV body to rapidly depressurize and explode upwards in a hail of glass shards.
This was how right-wing hero Pat Robertson was famously killed last year on his way to the annual youth slaughtering convention
The blatant racism around DEI fearmongering is really something terrible to behold. Funnily enough, the argument seems to be "racism/sexism isn't a thing anymore so clearly these are just less competent people getting jobs cause woke."
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn't even owned or crewed by Americans.
The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn't even owned or crewed by Americans.
By whom?
The usual suspects.
Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I've been to DEI trainings. It's like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn't make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?
I don't know why, but this post has been like a mind virus to me, trying to intuit out the first ones using context clues. For those who don’t want to zoom in on pixels or google extensively, here:
Term Kind Description ??? ??? - Could be 5% sure this is “field hand” ??????? - About 30% sure this might be “servants” Colored Slur A more acceptable form now in the modern term “person of color/POC” Welfare Queens Very Derogatory Pejorative Term disproportionately associated with Black, single mothers, stereotyping them as intentionally committing welfare fraud Urban Pejorative More of a euphemism, not so derogatory except in fairly specific contexts PC Satirical Pejorative (Politically Correct); interesting because even among leftists it was mostly a form of self-satire before being adopted as a pejorative by conservatives; in modern use isn’t so much of a direct derogatory as a downplaying of discriminatory circumstances SJW Pejorative (Social Justice Warrior); the least racially charged item in this list, just a pejorative for a progressive or leftist who is vocal Woke Vernacular / Pejorative African American Vernacular English for alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination; co-opted by conservatives as a pejorative yet still largely used by all sides of the political spectrum despite generally having moved beyond the concept of race only CRT Technical (Critical Race Theory); academic field considering racism to be systemic; despite being an entire field since the ‘60s, conservatives began seeking to ban the instruction of CRT in 2020 DEI Technical (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion); linked values used to define organizational frameworks that better represent historically discriminated groups including those across race and gender; has been called into blame by conservatives for several tragedies, the blatantly racist implication being that people of color are being hired despite being ill-equipped to perform edit i don’t think it’s even close to any of these, see this comment for my closer guesses: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/6369471
i can’t find the original with my reverse image search abilities but i asked chatgpt to produce similar terms to sate those with morbid curiosity:
These terms have been used or co-opted in racially or politically charged contexts. Here are some additional examples:
- Affirmative Action
- Inner City
- Illegal Alien
- Thug
- Anchor Baby
- Diversity Hire
- Model Minority
- Low-Information Voters
- Globalist
- Ghetto
- Illegal Immigrant
- Third World
- Radical
- Cultural Marxism
These terms can be problematic when used to stereotype or marginalize certain groups based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
they're in a timeline. You have to find the fearmonger dog whistle that came before the welfare queens.
Those terms aren't similar to these terms. Most of those are insults. Affirmative Action is similar, and Diversity Hire would be how corporations speak to the action part of Affirmative Action, but the rest are slurs. These are approaches to specific actions and attitudes for a stated goal of equality, although some of these have gone beyond that objective.
