Are "Diversity Managers" at NNSA labs bought off to protect their NNSA contractor? Ever met an openly disgruntled race discrimination concerned diversity manager? Nope.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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I think you are playing with fire on this. Say the wrong thing and if they figure out who you are...gone.
I think you basically agreed with the topic question. Diversity of opinion on the topic of employee diversity, is not well received.
2/27/2020 11:15 AM
What do you not understand about "not well received". Go ahead make yourself a target, just look at what happens to people who say the wrong thing. Your life so do what you want but don't be surprised how this goes.
Limitation meaning? Moved on meaning? Maybe some of us agree with you but
why the shadow game response? With respect, can you be more specific please?
How about the white male ex-military employees that populate the labs engineering technical management ranks in abundance, that were little more than black box modular replacement techs in the military? That's OK, and isn't white biased recruiting and promotion gone wild?
3/04/2020 11:53 AM
Diversity at LANL is also odd in that in Northern New Mexico you have a group who are very proud to state that they are "Spanish" not Hispanic and that they go back to 1520 or something. It seems like the kind of look down on other hispanics and I will not even mention what they think of the native American population. The odd part is that if they ever did one those 23andme tests I think the results would be that they are pretty the same as most other Hispanics or Latinx.
How many Hispanic and Black: 15% Total (male and female)
Soooo.... what do you expect when the demographics at LANL matches the demographics across the US?
Does any of this make you feel better about your racism and sexism? IF you want to do something, Mentor a student.
Again, we have moved on. You should too.....
As surprising as it might be to you, LANL is not the only NNSA lab. Move past your LANL focus.
Interesting that this person appears to believe to represent the opinions of many(?). Who are the we that have actually "moved on"? Those believing diversity at the Labs never was or no longer is important to monitor? Those that fear employment disparities are continuing and will be exposed at the Labs? Those that were hired and promoted as a minority at the Labs by the Elizabeth Warren method? Those that no longer wish to admit or be identified as benefiting from Lab diversity employment efforts (kicking the ladder away)? Perhaps you, excuse me, those that make up the "we" should express their collective "move on" reasoning to Lab management.
Interesting that this person appears to believe to represent the opinions of many(?). Who are the we that have actually "moved on"?
3/6/2020 8:24PM
I know other like minded people and I believe in the “goodness” of people as represented in Dr King’s “I have a dream” speech. We are not held back by your racism and sexism. I know that is hard for you to internalize but its ok. Its the natural result over time.
"Treat people like people" is good advice that most of us follow. In order to "move on", wouldn't all EEOC type agencies go away? Would Lab minority hiring and promotion goals be left to a "treat people like people" approach using an honor system of sorts? I think one needs to make a realistic distinction between a goal filled with hope and a plan filled with metrics and acknowledge one approach at the expense of the other may not work well.
Its worth noting that its the parents that opened their hearts and minds (or already were open), that made this shift happen. Its time to move beyond this instead of furthering it.