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Author Topic: Turning the corner on "woke"?  (Read 107340 times)

GeekyBugle

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Re: Turning the corner on "woke"?
« Reply #1020 on: March 18, 2024, 01:45:20 PM »
come on, murica, i was never the biggest fan, admittedly, but you used to be respectable once. this is just... sad.

Diversity training and complaints about it have been around since the 1970s, ever since it became legal to sue companies over racial and gender discrimination. It's been big since at least the 1990s. Here's a San Francisco Examiner article from Mar 26, 1994 as an example:

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Diversity: Big Bucks Business
Companies cash in on work force training; controversy and con men follow the money

There's a pot of gold in the multicultural rainbow.

And it's not necessarily at the end, where many advocates of diversity training and management believe it will result in an increasingly harmonious, highly motivated and more productive work force.

For a growing number of consultants, there's a more immediate payoff: lucrative corporate training and advice contracts that blend principle and profit.

Price M. Cobbs, a San Francisco psychiatrist whose Pacific Management Systems works with Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble and Digital Equipment Corp., estimated that diversity counseling generates at least $2 billion a year in revenue. This is for a field that the American Society for Training and Development did not separate as a specialty in its annual survey until two years ago.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner/100261851/

Outside of diversity, there's a huge field of business trainings that have questionable effect at all, and I think exist more so the company can say they did something rather than having any provable results.

From known far-right rag the BBC:

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Why ineffective diversity training won't go away

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Re: Turning the corner on "woke"?
« Reply #1021 on: March 18, 2024, 03:31:36 PM »
Mealy mouthed attempts to compare diversity training and MORE IMPORTANTLY policies to rah rah training for employees completely skips over the reality that people are directly affected by extremely discriminatory policies.