Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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GAO?
Did they have a conference in Las Vegas in a luxury hotel, with free booze, parties, and home made videos to do this report? I though GAO is one of th mos corrupt organizations in the government.
As long as the sexual harassment doesn't impact your wife, your daughter, or your niece, it's a big joke? Wow! Unfortunately, you are among others (mostly male) with similar perspectives and justifications when the sexual harassment problem is at a safe distance from family. Wake up.
"Unfortunately, you are among others (mostly male)"
You are assuming genders. The idea that sexual harassment is a male problem is outdated and harmful. Anyone can face harassment from any gender. People also have very different lived experiences so the idea that there are groups of genders with similar perspectives is very insular and biased. It is you that needs wake up, you have a perspective that probably benefits you and you feel threatened that that your privilege is going be lost.
I believe you’re referring to the GSA...
4/21/2021 7:21 PM
OK, so what is a "non-lived experience"? Just asking.
4/22/2021 5:47 PM
You are being a troll. In case you are just naive the idea is that you cannot understand what it is like to face oppression, racism, and harm
unless you have actually lived these experiences. What you can do is listen and believe, respect that that other people have different experiences in the world, and you will never be able to understand than because it takes a lifetime to know this.
I tried explaining and you come back with an insult. I am done discussing this. Your are now blocked.
Scooby you might consider adding to the “not conforming to blog rules” comments like,
“OK, so what is a "non-lived experience"? Just asking”,
“did you mean too not to”, “did your mean their not there”, etc.
Comments like those above are simply sarcasm designed to deflect the discussion away from a serious subject like sexual harassment.
You could call this new blog rule “no rodeo clowning”
Your wokeness is impressive. What part of yourself did you give up to acquire it? And what acceptance did you acquire, and from whom, by doing so?
Seems like probing this is a prudent thing to do in an open, basically unmoderated discussion of public policy...
4/27/2021 7:40 PM
Yes, and calling out nonsensical terminology meant to virtue signal is important.