DIE training is modern Maoism - A Son of the New American Revolution

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[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most organizations prefer to order the letters of the acronym as DEI so I appreciate Larry rearranging things so that it represents the think tank community's 1st draft of their Freudian slip. And yes this ideology needs to DIE.

[–]RandomCollection 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are the lumpenburgeoisie that serve the rich.

https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-lumpenbourgeoisie

Last week I wrote about political activism and how its professionalization has generated a whole range of corporate interests on the part of activist non-profits — interests that are entirely separate from those of the constituencies the activists purport to champion, and in some cases are in direct conflict with them. This dynamic has compounded the dysfunction of politics and government and made it virtually impossible to solve our most vexing social problems.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What an excellent article and I haven't yet followed the links on moral and cultural capital. This description from the one you linked to caught my eye:

the growth and development of a vast technocracy of professional demand-makers

And the discussion on the glut of college-degreed applicants on a dwindling job market and where it has led is connecting some dots.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (21 children)

I thought all the CRT BS was dreamt up in the first place because they decided Marxism wouldn't work in the US, and swapped in races for classes.

DEI/ESG isn't Maoism or Marxism; it's an attempted supplanting of Marxism.

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought all the CRT BS was dreamt up in the first place because they decided Marxism wouldn't work in the US, and swapped in races for classes.

No, they brought it in because it WILL work in the US. Communism is as American as Apple Pie.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (19 children)

I'm beginning to think it's none of the above, just the sugar-coating added to induce gullible liberals to accept "solutions" that will ultimately eliminate their autonomy and agency.

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A lurch towards a social credit score for individuals perhaps?

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. I have friends I fear would walk right into the trap because they don't pay attention to what's happening, they're too mired in their tech conveniences.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

It's well-established at this point that you can make a liberal do practically anything by telling her she'll be a good person if she does it. These are the most miserable people in existence: childless, faithless, rootless, seething with hatred for their own ancestors, their own history, even their own skin and organs.

Offer them redemption as an "anti-racist," or a savior of the planet, and of course they'll crawl over broken glass for it.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

There's a huge helping of that but I would argue there's also an element of reacting emotionally instead of rationally. I saw this with my mother, may she rest in peace; she was a generous donor especially when it came to organizations purporting to "feed the children". I finally got her to let me research these various organization to make sure they were on the up-and-up when it came to the money going where donors intended. It doesn't require subsuming empathy for the plight of others, just not allowing it to drive you into irrational actions that lead to unintended consequences.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Absolutely. I had to fight my mom on the same sort of thing. Thank goodness for Charity Navigator and other such sites; for the longest time she was showering money on anyone and anything that claimed to help animals. Put anything furry with big eyes on an envelope and my mom will still just melt.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

It's so surprising because these are not naive people, at least my mother wasn't. But I think you nailed it; for your mother it was furry critters, for my mother it was starving children that triggered the Pavlovian response. But tbh, I wasn't much better back in the day. Having extra income to donate to "worthy" causes made it easy to throw money at problems instead of engaging in actual activism and it took far too long for me to wise up.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

It's all about triggers. Find the right trigger and you can make anybody do anything. That's why they're so insistent on trying to get to kids as soon as possible with whatever conditioning their particular environment is fond of. If you install triggers early enough, they'll last a lifetime and resist most attempts at deprogramming. Much cheaper than having to program an adult.

For some it's making them think that by doing X they'll be GoodPeople™️ and be able to brag about it to their friend. For others it religion (which does exactly that, but still deserves a separate category for all the bad it's done) or guns. For others it's doing some kind of posturing about race, or gender, or whichever 'oppressed' group is the flavor of the week.

Even when you know what your triggers are, you're still just as susceptible to them anyway. You see it, you know it's bullshit, you do it anyway because "you just have to".

Humans are easily manipulated dumbfucks, we never evolved out of that and psychopaths exploited this and grabbed power all over before we ever had a chance to.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

And a cheerful good afternoon to you, too! Can't decide whether to start drinking or just go back to bed (and I know which one you'll suggest but go for it anyway).

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    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Can I take this as permission to pursue both options? I'm game!

    [–]Maniak🥃😾 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    Hey, it's late evening and there's wine so... wine in bed \o/

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    What, no whisky or whiskey (depending on your preference)?

    [–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Sigh. Even this guy is a liberal at the end of the day. DEI has a superficial resemblance to the form taken by the cultural revolution and little else.

    [–]Super_Soviet_Gundam 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    The right has a big problem identifying the proper target. They're trained to trigger on "communism" and "socialism" and to defend capitalism at all costs. They just can't understand the threat everyone is facing is something else (I call it neofeudalism).

    [–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    This is true, but the majority of the blame has to be placed squarely on the communists for not casting out and vehemently repudiating the idpol crazies. There's a dialogue to be had with the right about worker protections, healthcare, and sharply restricting corporate power, and the right is more receptive to that conversation right now than it has been in half a century or more.

    But it can't happen while there's a guy in a skirt on the communist side of the table insisting he's a woman, and another guy insisting he's owed $2 billion.

    [–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    We're working on it :|

    [–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Hopefully the timing will coincide with the Republicans completing their transformation, purging the remaining neocons, and welcoming back the black sheep who were right all along. Now that'll be an interesting team-up, communists and the JBS 😄

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

    Piece is by Robert A. Bishop via AmericanThinker.com.

    Excerpt:

    DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) training is nihilism indoctrination and has swept through Western institutions. It is a modern Maoist struggle session. Individuals failing to cooperate or acknowledge their bias or white privilege in DIE training lead to ostracization, public humiliation, and possible job loss. DIE incentivizes the formation of employee hierarchal groups around sex, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which fosters resentment. There is no objective evidence that DIE programs reduce racism, bigotry, and prejudice.

    ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) is a corporate social credit score to exert control over publicly traded corporations. ESG helps promote the World Economic Forum’s “stakeholder capitalism,” handing partial control to outsiders. The “S” in ESG uses DIE as the critical metric for human capital reporting making DIE employee training compulsory.

    DIE is big business and has ballooned into a $9 billion unregulated industry.

    Most employers make it mandatory to participate in DIE brainwashing training. You can either lie low or challenge the ideological training. Remember, being belligerent or hostile could get you disciplined or fired. One of the best and low-key methods is the Socratic Method, by asking the facilitator questions that expose distorted facts and contradictions and engage participants in critical thinking. For example, “Does equity consider employee’s merit performances?” Or “Wouldn’t a color-blind workplace remove biases?”

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (15 children)

    American Thinker .com

    Sounds like an oxymoron.

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (13 children)

    Generally true but you're an American and I think you're a thinker so maybe there are exceptions...?

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

    Yes, there are exceptions, which is why it only sounds like an oxymoron :-)

    Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson ran for President in 1952 and 1956, losing both times to Dwight Eisenhower. According to legend, at the end of one of his speeches a man stood up and cried out "Adlai, you have the vote of every thinking man in America!" Stevenson famously replied:

    That's not enough. I need a majority.

    Another famous AES line: "Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks."

    [–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Hmm, I always saw that one cited with a woman in the role, saying "thinking person," and Stevenson's response beginning with "Madam." Those accounts didn't mention it was legendary though...

    Looking it up now I see the attribution is disputed, as you say. Huh.

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I heard the story from my dad. "Thinking man" is how he quoted it, perhaps because of better poetic rhythm.

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

    That was before my time but I recall that my father liked Stevenson, which inclined me to have a favorable opinion of him. Hearing these anecdotes just makes me like him more, there's something to be said for people who have a sense of humor, especially about politics.

    It's interesting to me that my father, who voted Republican his entire life, decided after being recalled to active military in the 1950s to make the air force a career because there was a Republican president and according to him, small businesses like the one he owned before being reactivated always fared better under Democrats.

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    AES is featured in one of my favorite Doonesbury comic strips, from Dec 1, 1984. It was right after Reagan was reëlected. Newt Gingrich was mostly unknown at the time -- it was long before he was Speaker of the House or even House Minority Whip. Garry Trudeau used Newt's name because he thought it sounded ridiculous.

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

    Newt Gingrich was one of the most amoral personalities to grace the halls of poltics, and that's a very low bar. Kind of funny how similar his name is to Grinch.

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    I once read that anser gingrit is Latin for "the goose cackles" :-)

    I believe Grinch is from the French word grincheux (grincheuse), meaning bad-tempered.

    I am vexed and ratty (shakes fist)
    And hopping mad! (stamps feet)

    -- Monty Python's "Precision Display of Bad Temper"

    [–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Can't remember where I saw it, but it stuck in my head:

    Newt Gingrich Family Values

    Using your daughters from your first wife to convince everyone your second wife is lying about your third wife

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    That's brilliant. Max Blumenthal did a scathing takedown of Focus on the Family's endorsement of Gingrich in his exceptional Republican Gomorrah.

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

    Famous egghead Adlai Stevenson is basically the exact opposite of the certified morons we have running nowadays. But what can you do in a representative democracy?

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    It helped that ignorance has been promoted as a virtue for decades but it really goes even beyond that to the uniformity of thought required in practically every institutional setting. The result has been that it's no longer the "best and the brightest" who rise to the top, it's careerists willing to sacrifice whatever principles they have to become part of the elite club.

    It parallels what these self-serving idiots did to America's capacity for self-sufficiency by destroying our manufacturing base. Hoist on their own petard, basically (and us along with them), as the empire no longer has the physical or intellectual capacity to confront the current crises we face.

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    it's careerists willing to sacrifice whatever principles they have to become part of the elite club.

    In my early working years I discovered The Law of Large Organizations:

    In any Large Organization, Loyalty will always be rewarded over Competence.

    [–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Very true. And also counterproductive because they're not the ones that make the organization effective and/or profitable.

    [–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It's not a terribly impressive site either. I remember I used to come across it occasionally several years ago; the architecture has never been improved even a little. (I don't care about bells and whistles, just some basic QOL, useful search functions, keyword tags, that kinda thing.) Also they were one of the targets of the threats Dominion started flinging around, and folded immediately.