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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On the positive side we are failing to take advantage of our positive aspects as a society. Creativity and freedom of thought breeds new ideas. Those characteristics are being crushed by caution, lack of risk taking, and bureaucratic overreach. China is winning because we have allowed ourselves to be defeated. We have failed to do the things that gave us supremacy in the first place. Chief among this is any sense of civic or societal responsibility on the part of the institutions, the corporations and ultimately the individual. The only thing that matters now is money. No other value or principle is managed or prized. Money vetos everything.