I think it is more than a matter of time, unfortunately. Undoing what’s been done in my neck of the woods seems unlikely, at least in the government.
The Toyotas and John Deeres and MIT’s will continue to add up and it will eventually be quite difficult to argue with success.
I suppose we will see, but I maintain (from your “sunny horizons” thread) that this was a generations counterculture movement, albeit a loud one. It was incidentally the first counterculture movement to have internet virility for a megaphone, however, and was admittedly very loud.
Homosexuality and its offshoots will of course always be around as they always have been, but the protected class pedestal they’ve been sitting on is eroding.
As it should once it has become widely accepted… They will no longer need the protection.
I don’t think you’re reading the posted content though.
The institutions reversing policy are doing so because it isn’t beneficial, not because they’ve achieved some sort of mission complete status.
The tail is about to stop wagging the dog. It never became the dog.
I miss goth girls though
Ive read the releases. They are stopping because the politicization amongst their customers outweighs any benefit their DEI program had/has. I think we agree on that?
I agree with this, nationally. It’s the local entrenchment that’s going to need a lot of people to reject it and root it out.
I’m not tapped in to any children besides my nieces and nephews, who don’t live in Maine, but in my kids’s age group of 24 ish there’s definitely a lot more political awareness across the board. These are kids with opinions and they have been strong on Trump since high school.
There’s also quite a few kids who are whole hog into transgenderism and radical progressive politics. Woke Democrats control the government and many are currently entering the workforce with expectations for treatment that seem to be getting entrenched further locally.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think the woke Democrats have the game rigged enough in Maine to be permanently entrenched, and their policies drive out more and more conservatives every day.
The only reason I’m still here is to support my kid in his pursuit of Tuna Fishing professionally, in no small part because affording even a modest 1BR apartment is a big challenge in ways it never has been in this town or area, ever.
If pop culture gets behind it somehow a lot of people will go along with whatever is deemed cool, so who knows? At present, I predict an internal sorting leading towards polarization.
That sorting seems to be happening right now. I’m sure you notice quite a few New Texans as you gaze out beyond your ranchlands. I can see why you guys carry those lassos around down there.
On that note, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Hoosiers for “saddling” you with Brian’s perpetual bullshit, especially his woke activism in Austin and all of the tragic criminal justice entanglements.
He’s a Texan now, so good luck.
Don’t worry, you have liberal alt-girls to drool over now
Goth girls don’t have dicks.
And you don’t have two jars nor a slave
Of course I don’t own any human beings, but I hope you get married soon and stay married so you don’t need to learn about the diverse wishes of females in their late 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.
An old buddy of mine is gay. He doesn’t want protections. He likes to know that he stands on his own merit and is an asset. And if he were let go for any reason- he will eat the new competition/former employers lunch. Cuz he knows what it means to stand and deliver.
The “protections” are actually an impedance in that regard. Can one ever really know that they are self made and accomplished with that hanging in the background?
Was HR just trying to avoid a lawsuit?
Did they really hire on merit?
I’ve never had to consider these types of questions. I don’t think anybody should.
For sure better than trannies.
In part. Fast Company is a liberal publication and assumed a champion of DEI persona who then played political victim on behalf of Toyota.
What happened, and you can read other spin from other sources around it too, is that following the Corporate Equality Index guidelines ultimately wasn’t benefiting company profit or growth. It failed.
MIT was very objective in plainly stating after study and analysis (by MIT itself, mind you) that the program objectively doesn’t work.
Forcing or at least heavily influencing hires outside of merit for best fit for a job just doesn’t make sense in a for profit, corporate environment. Companies exist to be best at what they do, not look like a Thundercats cartoon during every meeting.
Sure, I think there will always be pockets of extreme liberalism. There always have been in some iteration. They form little communities and dig in to the local level, and perhaps Lewiston is now one of those areas.
Regionally, I live in an area 2 counties south of Travis County (Austin), and border Bexar County (San Antonio). San Antonio is as “liberal” as any major city, and Austin is of course Austin. Somewhere along the way keeping it weird went from long hair and marijuana Willie Nelson style to one-upping Portland.
Where I am specifically went something like 76% “red” at the last election, down from a running average of over 80%. If you remember from the news a Biden / Harris bus being surrounded by trucks with Trump flags and the police standing idly by as it drove from San Antonio to Austin, that was my town.
People are acutely aware of what’s happening, especially in Austin, and there is a fight to keep it red as we inherit the rest of the country fleeing consequences of blue bullshit, and like locusts to a field they bring it with them to a functioning area.
So I agree it can be regional and understand how one wrong election could flip things as they would all begin singing a siren song if they won.
Regarding children, parents especially are very involved in local ISD elections, and candidates are widely scrutinized for maybe the first time ever.
I personally see this phenomenon coming to a close. Especially amongst kids. Once the whole DEI/Trans thing is no longer the hot ticket item the dialogue and ultimate lemur effect it has on impressionable minds will come to a close and it simply wont be a dialogued current event anymore. It’s not natural. We have been witnessing a propagated message that requires ongoing, sustained energy and the wind is leaving the sails. Ships will correct course.
I believe the Supreme Court is lined up to hear an argument for permanently banning sex change operations for minors, will be interested to see how it plays out, and what trickle down effects the decision will have.
It will be refreshing to get back to debating fiscal policy and fighting communism, and I think we are getting close.
California is not a little community. Neither is NYC or Chicago.
This is a distraction. If you look at the real issues facing Western Civilization, this is nothing. The right wants the battle to be over identity politics while ignoring the fact they are losing the politics battle. The fact that more and more young people are pro socialist is a bigger problem than trans issues. There was a guest on Bill Maher’s show who said we should get rid of the Supreme Court. When you see young people siding with terrorists who don’t believe in civil rights and the basic freedoms we have in the West, there is a problem. These are the true dangerous ideas.
They hate men, themselves, the system, the patriarchy, flowers, everything
The real overlords of the world know they can infect liberal smooth brains with this trash because they are emotionally and mentally gullible. The useful idiots they called them. Yuri warned us decades ago
True. However, the extreme left stances in those areas are fairly recent even if they are longtime Democrat strongholds, and there has been pushback or at least verbalized distaste in the direction things are heading. Unfortunately the most opposed are just leaving instead of digging in, so I guess we will see how that plays out long term.
This is the “equity” portion of DEI.
Thought leadership for Gen Z has been focused on it, but it only works if institutions play ball, and they’re reversing course in droves. Texas is even legislating against DEI initiatives as posted earlier in the thread.
Gen Z is decades away from making any genuinely consequential decisions and will likely outgrow their version of hippie commune utopias.
The big push to institutionalize DEI came scarily close to fruition but is pretty well neutered by pawn refusal to stay on the CEI program, and via legal red tape.
It will be interesting to see how relevant the whole thing is in a few years.
I suppose a “blue wave” could upend reversals, but we do have a Supreme Court.
Speaking of the Supreme Court, we have a bunch of slapdicks running around who never learned civics and are giving knee-jerk emotional responses to rulings they don’t personally align with. There has been some political discussion around packing the court, but so far it hasn’t gained much traction, and the grain seems to be going the other way in general.