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I honestly think I’d have a hard time finding a better explanation for why Trump has appeal to a new group of voters than this: “We (white men with power) benefited from an unfair system but we can balance the books in a way that protects us and further handicaps white people who didn’t have much power or an advantage to begin with.” “I love the poorly educated” indeed.
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I didn’t see your post as I was writing mine: I’ve been mostly referring to the terrible Twitter takes I’ve seen. And I agree with the second part, I think that an older generation saw an opportunity to get the credit for “fixing” diversity but letting the squeeze fall on someone else.
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I also wish this analysis hadn’t been done on such a precious and prestigious and stressed field, as it’s led to some lazy and stupid takes: “poor white man thinks he’s entitled to a TV show” or “all the movies suck because of DEI hiring.” Factually: from about the mid-2010s peaking in the early 2020s I personally observed hiring and employment practices that were facially illegal and yet aby concerns were dismissed as “not relevant because we are prioritizing diversity.” Eventually, the message was received, processes were changed to silently implement directions without the need for the facially illegal implementation. Specific examples from personal observation, across different orgs and industries. This is anecdotal, but not just one anecdote in one place. - Directions to “select the diverse candidate in the event of a tie,” while two diverse candidates in a tie would be given an additional interview or other screening before a final selection. On its face, a direction to use protected status as a hiring/promotion criteria. - Senior leaders re-ranking short lists based solely on names (gender markers), without also reviewing any other parts of the files or notes. - Specific instructions that gay men should not be considered “diverse candidates” for the purpose of advancing DEI principles. - Specific instructions to “maintain a diverse balance” or “improve the diversity in the office” when multiple jobs came open. - In academia, internal decisions by committees that a spot must be filled by a non-white male, with preference for non-white candidate. Here is the rub from my end: this happened in the absence of legislative changes and instead came down as a mandate to ignore existing EEO law in favor of a greater interest. And maybe, socially, that is the right call. But the net effect was a lot of double talk: “we don’t discriminate on the basis of race or sex, and when we do it’s for the right reasons. And this did lead to a well-founded suspicion that things were not what they were said to be and made it impossible to really measure impact in either a good or bad way. And I think naturally people tend to believe they got screwed and it colors decisions made in good faith as well. Maybe society did need a few years of positive, re-balancing discrimination that proportionally disadvantaged a population that in earlier generations was privileged. But we didn’t ask that or discuss it or say we were doing it. We just tried (and failed) to gaslight everyone and pretend that we weren’t making important decisions about hiring and promotions based, in part, on race and gender. And that lack of honesty is creating a lot of resentment. From my personal experience, the impact did fall mainly on millennial men at the beginning or early middle of their careers. The mandates and decisions were frequently passed down by established white men in leadership.
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I don’t know enough about the psychology of orientation or demography to pronounce whether or not there is a significant impact on birth rates and whether being gay holds steady across space and time. (And neither of those things has a bearing on the inherent rights and dignity of gay people). I do strongly question your last paragraph as someone who knows about history and human demography. The categorization of people into a gay, bisexual, or straight orientation, and the choice to engage in exclusively gay relationships (or choose to withdraw from sexual relationships entirely) is fairly unique to highly individualistic, modern Western or Western European societies. Ancient Mediterranean cultures did not see a tension in men expressing strong sexual preferences for other men and maintaining sexual and intimate romantic relations with other men while at the same time entering into heterosexual marriages for the express purpose of producing biological offspring and property transmission— which is something that most gay men today do not do. All of the men in the “Theban Sacred Band” either had or would have wives and children in addition to their ackotowleged maker partners. Modern Afghanistan is full of men who prefer sex with other men (or teen boys) and yet still maintain heterosexual marriages for similar purposes and who would deny that their actions are homosexual or that gayness exists in Pashtun culture.
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We have created a system where you can get a toll violation or red light ticket with deadly accuracy in the mail but it’s somehow beyond the limits of LE competence to catch a school shooter captured on multiple videos until a homeless person is tracked down. Also, I think it’s time to abandon the mask thing outdoors. American cities are not New Delhi with smog and virtually anyone masking outside in 2025 is either criming, ICE, a lunatic, or combination thereof.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
956 Worldwide replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Hi everyone, it’s such a lifetime dream to become CEO of a trusted company like Mozilla, a place that does technology differently, a place that keeps user experience as it’s North Star. Which is why it’s such a tremendous honor to be the leader that says “fuck all of you shitheads, we know what you really want is AI.” https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/mozillas-new-ceo-says-ai-is-coming-to-firefox-but-will-remain-a-choice/ -
More fun question is whether Equatorial Guinea is a Hispanic country.
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Unsurprising that the guy got found once competent Boston and MA LE got involved. Really embarrassing for Providence and Brown. Also some really shitty behavior leaking one name and then RW social media speculating another name.
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Compensation & WFH debate ($120K vs 240K)
956 Worldwide replied to Nice Guy Eddie's topic in Daily Texan
To the original point, if you are single and this job allows some great digital nomad lifestyle to chase skirts then this is a debate. If you have any responsibilities it isn’t. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
956 Worldwide replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
He already had one murder arrest and the local authorities let him out after a weapons charge and he killed someone within a day. He had been arrested on seven felonies in five years and released each time. Yes, the local authorities failed badly. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
956 Worldwide replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I am very comfortable saying that any unauthorized immigrant who has been arrested SEVEN TIMES on felony charges in five years should have been arrested or deported long before this (second) murder arrest, yes. And that deporting people like him is a good thing, and that finding reasons not to deport people who keep getting arrested is one reason why we are where are. Like who are we kidding on this stuff? What is the net benefit for not kicking you out after, say, two arrests? Keep in mind he has no authorization to be here to begin with. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
956 Worldwide replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
The logical response to that is “refusing to charge people for crimes and then letting them go do more” is a basic failure of governance. -
Compensation & WFH debate ($120K vs 240K)
956 Worldwide replied to Nice Guy Eddie's topic in Daily Texan
As I said, if you are in a widget role (maybe a highly technical one that pays well), ok. You are absolutely not on a list for future leadership and supervision if being at home and not interacting outside of TEAMS is a priority.
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