Listen, Liberal -
Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015
quote [ When Rosalind Brewer took the job as president and CEO of Sam’s Club in 2012, she became the first woman and the first African American to run a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. division, according to Forbes.
But after the Sam’s Club chief executive discussed the issue in a recent interview with CNN, some critics have deemed her “racist” toward white men and have threatened to boycott the members-only warehouse stores. “As a white person I need a safe space from racist blacks,” one person wrote on Twitter. “I do not feel safe at Sam’s Club.” ] What do you all think about this stuff?
I found out about this from another article - this snippet stood out to me:
"It's pretty hard to find women or black people at the top in corporate America. There are just 21 female CEOs in the S&P 500 -- that's 4.2 percent overall. The stats on black executives are worse: There are only five black CEOs in the S&P 500, accounting for a grand total of 1 percent."
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foobar said @ 9:51pm GMT on 16th December
This is just one of those problems with no good solution. If you have a team selected in a reasonable, merit based manner that happens to be all old, white men, what do you do? Structural racism doesn't require any individual racist choices.
Any choice you make will cause one group or another to suffer, and some of it's members to suffer personally. Either you let the situation slowly resolve itself over generations, letting the structural racism slowly crumble, or you let sex or one's skin colour to be a factor.
Job security is much lower on the hierarchy of needs than structural racism, especially if it doesn't target you. This is always how the powerful have resisted redistribution; they frame it in a way that harms a wide swath of the powerless, so they'll help fight it.
foobar said @ 9:51pm GMT on 16th December
This is just one of those problems with no good solution. If you have a team selected in a reasonable, merit based manner that happens to be all old, white men, what do you do? Structural racism doesn't require any individual racist choices.
Any choice you make will cause one group or another to suffer, and some of it's members to suffer personally. Either you let the situation slowly resolve itself over generations, letting the structural racism slowly crumble, or you let sex or one's skin colour to be a factor.
Income security is much lower on the hierarchy of needs than structural racism, especially if it doesn't target you. This is always how the powerful have resisted redistribution; they frame it in a way that harms a wide swath of the powerless, so they'll help fight it.
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foobar said @ 9:51pm GMT on 16th December [Score:1 Interesting]
This is just one of those problems with no good solution. If you have a team selected in a reasonable, merit based manner that happens to be all old, white men, what do you do? Structural racism doesn't require any individual racist choices.
Any choice you make will cause one group or another to suffer, and some of it's members to suffer personally. Either you let the situation slowly resolve itself over generations, letting the structural racism slowly crumble, or you let sex or one's skin colour to be a factor.
Income security is much lower on the hierarchy of needs than structural racism, especially if it doesn't target you. This is always how the powerful have resisted redistribution; they frame it in a way that harms a wide swath of the powerless, so they'll help fight it.
