#diversity equity and inclusion

[alwaysbewoke]

#maga #DEI #diversity equity and inclusion #historical injustices #systemic racism #stolen land #Native Americans #slavery #Black people #Asian immigration #women's rights #reparations #restitution #social justice

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Potentially great news

#diversity equity and inclusion #dei nonsense #fuck dei #fuck esg

[boxofbonesfic]

I feel really guilty reading fanfics that were made specifically for black readers. Like I'm encroaching on a space that isn't meant for me. I typically try not to read them but I do share them so others who are black can read them. I want to support black content creators without overstaying or pushing my way into a place I'm not invited. Having said that, thank you for all your hard work and well written content.

this made me really sad because what i and other black authors want more than anything is for our work to be read, by everyone. with all due respect, this is absolutely the least way you could be supportive of black writers. how is it supporting us to ignore our work and read the least diverse fanfiction possible? all myself and other black writers have asked for is to be given the same opportunities and care in fandom as our white counterparts—ignoring our work doesn’t help us get seen, doesn’t help us get support, find readers or community, it simply excludes us.

i have not seen a single black author say their work isn’t intended to be read by nonblack people or nonPoC—what i HAVE seen is people asking white authors and community members to be more inclusive in their own work, and to not write characters of color if they are only going to adhere to stereotypes or racist depictions. none of that is a call for our non PoC community members to exclude us and ignore our work. you can’t support us like that.

i appreciate that you love my work “in spite” of it’s inclusiveness to my community, but i really think it would serve you to try and unpack this mindset, friend. ❤️

#ask the bones #voice from the bones #diversity equity and inclusion #fandom

[liberaljane]

Representation is more important than ever, especially for the kids who are most marginalized.

Digital illustration of an older Latina teacher wearing an apple print dress. She’s standing in front of a blackboard that says, ‘inclusive curriculums benefit all students.’ There’s a variety of items around the image, including a pride flag, Black lives matter sign, globe, and plant.

#art #feminism #feminist #teacher #education #trust teachers #fund education #dei #inclusive #inclusivity #equity #inclusion #diversity equity and inclusion #teacher training #queer kids #kids #school #crt

[odinsblog]

As Elon Musk whines about imaginary reverse discrimination against white men and “unqualified” women + non-white people being hired into jobs that they are neither deserving of nor qualified for (according to Apartheid Clyde, the privileged nepo baby born into wealth), please keep in mind that the pilot who landed Alaska Airline flight 1282 is a woman.

In a transcript of the conversation between the pilot — who so far remains anonymous — and the control tower, we get a glimpse into how she managed to rest cool, calm and very collected.

During the incident the cabin had become depressurized when a part of its structure blew out. As a result passengers’ phones were sucked out of the plane, and a teenager’s shirt was torn off his back.

While the passengers were left in a terrifying position, no doubt fearing the worst, the plane’s pilot kept things calm.

Grace under pressure

In the transcript published by IAM14 that you can listen to here, the pilot displays zero panic. In fact, she needed to be asked if she were declaring an emergency!

Here’s a snippet:

Air traffic controller: “1282 foreign approach. Good afternoon. You still have information zero?”

Alaska Airlines pilot: “Yeah, we do have information zero, we’d like to get lower, if possible.”

Air traffic controller: “Possibility 1282 descend and maintain 7,000.”

Air traffic controller: “Alaska 1282 did you declare an emergency or did you need to return to …”

Alaska Airlines pilot: “Yes, we are in an emergency, we are depressurized, we do need to return back to, we have 177 passengers. Fuel is 18-eight.”

When she states: “We’d like to get lower, if possible,” most people would have had a slightly different reaction. It would have been understandable to hear something along the lines of: “Help, we’re in big trouble!” (source)

And remember: there are also Black pilots who do the job every single day, not to mention the intersection of other marginalized groups who are also right there doing the damn thing.

#politics #elon musk #diversity equity and inclusion #apartheid clyde #dei #alaska airlines #alaska airlines 1282

[zestyrat]

kids cartoons are so fucking good like there’s queer rep, diversity in body shapes and race, and way better storylines than most adult tv shows 🩵

#lgbtq #zestyrat #trans #queer #diversity equity and inclusion #kids shows #cartoon network #toh #craig of the creek #steven universe

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Aaron Benner

Published: Oct 2, 2015

I have been an elementary teacher almost all of my adult life, mostly in St. Paul Public Schools. First and foremost, I teach because I love kids, I love schools, I love our city, and I really love what happens when a group of kids becomes a community in a classroom and a school. For this to occur, everybody has to play a part — parents, students, teachers, building and district administration, and the broader community. As a black man, it breaks my heart to watch these communities fall apart and to see some children who look like me behave so poorly in our schools.

In 2011, I addressed the St. Paul School Board. At the time, I told them about my concerns with student behavior at Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School, where I taught sixth grade. I hoped to start a discussion about what I was witnessing. Although the media paid some attention (likely because my race made for an interesting story), the school board ignored me. I addressed the board again on May 20, 2014, regarding the same issues, but this time I was aware they were happening districtwide. Four other brave teachers accompanied me. The school board ignored us again and tried to paint us as anti-racial equity.

From 2013-15, I taught fourth grade at John A. Johnson Elementary (JAJ). The behaviors that I witnessed last year at JAJ were far worse than what I complained to the school board about in 2011 and in 2014. On a daily basis, I saw students cussing at their teachers, running out of class, yelling and screaming in the halls, and fighting. If I had a dollar for every time my class was interrupted by a student running into my room and yelling, I’d be a rich man. It was obvious to me that these behaviors were affecting learning, so when I saw the abysmal test scores this summer, I was not surprised. Out of 375 students, only 14.3 percent were proficient in Reading, 9.6 percent in Math and 9.3 percent in Science. These test scores are not acceptable in any way, shape or form.

I diligently collected data on the behaviors that I saw in our school and completed behavior referrals for the assaults. These referrals were not accurately collected. The school suspended some students, but many more assaults were ignored or questioned by administrators to the point where the assaults were not even documented. I have since learned that this tactic is widely used throughout the district to keep the numbers of referrals and suspensions low.

The parents who complained to the school board last year about behavior at Ramsey Jr. High know all too well about behaviors being ignored. The students of SPPS are being used in some sort of social experiment where they are not being held accountable for their behavior. This is only setting our children up to fail in the future, especially our black students. All of my students at JAJ were traumatized by what they experienced last year — even my black students. Safety was my number one concern, not teaching.

Who would conduct such an experiment on our kids? I blame the San Francisco-based consulting firm, Pacific Education Group (PEG). PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret of the fact that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life — its economy, schools, and government — that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism. PEG pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn. So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault, and the student should just take a break, and then return to class shortly thereafter.

Racism and white privilege definitely exist, and there is not enough space in this paper for me to share all of the humiliating encounters I’ve experienced that are a product of racism. But to blame poor behavior and low test scores solely on white teachers is simply wrong. However, it’s the new narrative in our district, pushed by PEG.

I recently dropped out of the St. Paul School Board race to focus on my new job at a charter school, but I’m still concerned with the current state of SPPS and the direction of the school board. Here’s what I think should happen: First and foremost, the newly elected board must sever ties with Pacific Education Group. PEG has charged the taxpayers of St. Paul $3 million over the last five years. According to some reports, SPPS has matched PEG with $1.2 million. What are these matching dollars used for? It is crucial to understand that behaviors throughout the district have escalated to the point where we are at a crisis in St. Paul. PEG is not working. To add insult to injury, two weeks ago, the St. Paul School Board had the audacity to set the ceiling of next year’s tax levy 3.85 percent higher than the current year. Tax increase? This must be a joke.

Racial equity and closing the achievement gap, the correct way, are commendable goals. However, PEG’s idea of racial equity is NOT the answer. PEG stresses black culture and nothing else. What is black culture? Did PEG survey the black community of St. Paul and ask what behaviors should be acceptable in our schools? I don’t recall filling out any surveys or receiving any phone calls regarding this topic.

Because of PEG, we have forgotten about our Asian, Latino and Native communities. The St. Paul Public School district has the second most diverse school population in the country (New York City is ranked No. 1). For the record, Asians make up the largest minority group in our schools. PEG has influenced this district on major policy changes, from questionable behavioral guidelines and hiring practices to the creation of new positions with jargonistic titles.

We now have “Cultural Specialists” and “Behavior Specialists” throughout our schools. An overwhelming number of these specialists are black, and it’s not clear to me what their qualifications are. Their job seems to be to talk to students who have been involved in disruptions or altercations and return them to class as quickly as possible. Some of these “specialists” even reward disruptive students by taking them to the gym to play basketball (yes, you read that correctly). This scene plays out over and over for teachers throughout the school day. There is no limit to the number of times a disruptive student will be returned to your class. The behavior obviously has not changed, and some students have realized that their poor behavior has its benefits.

St. Paul Public Schools is in desperate need of true behaviorists to replace these “specialists.” Licensed therapists who are trained to help change and replace inappropriate behaviors. I expect that PEG would never go for this because it would contradict their excuse that “black culture” accounts for such behaviors. The newly elected school board can change that.

Another action the newly elected school board must take is to visit schools, listen to teachers, and offer them much-needed support. Teachers are currently fending for themselves when it comes to behavior concerns. Part of my frustration is with the leadership of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers. The union is so concerned with getting along with the district that they are paralyzed when the hundreds of teachers they represent bring up the issue of behavior. This needs to change.

PEG and SPPS are harming the very people whose interests they claim to represent. Follow the money. The taxpayers of St. Paul should demand to know who exactly is benefitting from PEG. Students definitely aren’t.

Aaron Anthony Benner works as the African- American Liaison/Behavior Coach and Community of Peace Academy, a public charter school in St. Paul.

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By: Victor Skinner

Published: Sep 24, 2019

Aaron Benner, a black teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota, won a large settlement with the St. Paul School District last week over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policies.

Benner argued the investigations came in retaliation for complaints to the school board about race-based student discipline policies implemented by then Superintendent Valeria Silva and promoted by President Obama. The discipline policies aimed to reduce suspensions of black students by lowering the expectations for behavior and increasing the threshold for suspensions, something Benner repeatedly, publicly argued was against the best interests of black students.

The “restorative justice” approach to student discipline was accompanied by “white privilege” teacher training sessions that cost the district taxpayers more than $3 million. Those sessions focused on the “white privilege” theory that the public education system is hopelessly stacked against black students, who shouldn’t be held accountable for poor academics or bad behavior.

In St. Paul and hundreds of schools across the country, the “white privilege” training sessions were conducted by Pacific Educational Group, also known as PEG.

“PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life – its economy, schools, and government – that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism,” Benner wrote in a 2015 editorial for the Press.

“Peg pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn,” Benner wrote. “So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault.”

Benner refused to accept that black students are less capable than their white classmates and left the school district in 2015. Benner taught at a local charter school and was later hired for a administration position at the St. Paul private school Cretin-Derham Hall, according to the Star Tribune.

After years of complaints from parents, teachers, administrators and others about violent and disruptive students running rampant with impunity, St. Paul school leaders eventually got rid of Silva and scrapped the failed student discipline policies.

Last week, the school board settled up with Benner, though the district denied any wrongdoing.

“This agreement enables the district to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of protracted legal proceedings regarding its previous policies, practices and expectations,” board members wrote in a prepared statement.

The district contends taxpayers are responsible for $50,000 of the settlement, while its insurer will cover $475,000.

Benner told the Star Tribune he credits God for the favorable outcome.

“I thank God for all the blessings in my life,” he wrote in an email to the news site. “I turned 50 this year, got married in July and now (there is) this settlement.”

#Aaron Benner #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #racial equity #white privilege #diversity training #educational equity #lower standards #bigotry of low expectations #neoracism #antiracism as religion #antiracism #racial discrimination #corruption of education #education #religion is a mental illness

[troythecatfish]

#threads #threads app #marvel #x men #marvel studios #x men 97 #xmen #dei #diversity equity and inclusion #current events #social justice #cartoon #cartoons

[noncompliantbi]

I've long believed that Third Wave "feminism" that encourages the centering of males is the result of government tampering a la COINTELPRO. Tonight while I was hanging out with friends, it occurred to me that the global trans-identified male takeover of women's spaces, resources, and opportunities might be just a way to undermine all social justice movements.

Initiatives like diversity equity and Inclusion and hate crime legislation were supposed to help folks historically left out of various fields or targeted for their innate characteristics, but now it's used by creepy TIMs wasting everybody's time like India Willoughby calling the cops on JK Rowling for calling him a man.

We cannot trust leftists anymore when they say something because they lie directly to your face about something so fucking obvious and don't care how many girls and women it hurts. In fact, each week they come out with ever more perverse and absurd demands like men taking synthetic hormones and feeding their nipple leakage to babies being accepted and encouraged.

I've literally been about social justice all my life but now I'm slow to trust anyone talking about lefty issues because they made this glaring lie the centerpiece to their politics.

This is the type of thing I' thinking about while I'm actively out having drinks with friends. lol

#my stuff #trans politics #feminism #diversity equity and inclusion #gender critical #women #jk rowling #india willoughby #cointelpro #FBI

[alwaysbewoke]

#maga #dei #diversity equity and inclusion #systemic racism #racism #discrimination #racial inequality #social justice #civil rights #racial bias #racial prejudice #racial discrimination #racial justice

[hebrewbyinbal]

So where are they? How do Arabs live in Israel??

#israel #diversityequityandinclusion #stophate #equalrights

#stop antisemitism #stop hate #stand with israel #israel #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #inclusion #jewish #equal rights

[iwouldkickahorse]

I hate living in America because weekly I go through the paranoid fearful hell of remembering that project 2025 exists, know that it will literally turn my life into a shit hole due to it turning anything that republicans don’t like illegal, know that the literal first promise is making anything they see woke child porn, see if ANYONE else actually cares (they don’t), learn even WORSE shit that will come out of it, cry because no one cares and most people will vote in a republican and it will probably go in affect, knowing I can’t do anything besides scream into the void for more people to at least hear about it (I’m a minor), stop because its making my mental health awful, rinse repeat see you next week.

anyone else?

oh yea heres the fucking plan, its 1000 pages, happy reading

https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

#america #paranoia #lgbt #leftist #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #aromantic #asexual #trans #nonbinary #diversity equity and inclusion #enby #people of color #abortion #I HATE IT HERE #THIS HELL COUNTRY THAT WANTS TO MAKE ITSELF A DICTATORSHIP #FUCK AMERICA

[readyforevolution]

#diversity equity and inclusion #blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history #duke university

[whitehotharlots]

A quick note re: 2 exciting innovations in Anti-Racist Science

First, there's this piece from CNN titled "Major Hollywood stars press Academy to include Jews in representation and inclusion standards." Low-IQ actors such as Debra Messing and David Schwimmer have requested that the Academy of Motion Pictures begin auditing the number of Jews in their ranks, explaining that refusing to do so might cause people to believe Jews are white, instead of a completely separate racial entity. Very neat!

Second--and this is from a conservative source, sure, but the documents are verifiable--we have some new DEI materials that were taught to employess of the University of Wisconsin health system. These include many of the greatest hits from older DEI materials: it's racist to cry when someone yells at you, it's racist to disagree with a black person about anything, it's racist to say you're not racist, etc etc. But there are two exciting new twists: it's racist to have supported the 1960's Civil Rights movement and it's only possible for anyone to feel comfortable when they're interacting solely with people who "look and think" like themselves.

For years, I have complained that the left's all-consuming obsession with identity has accidentally turned progressives into Bush-era Republicans. Sadly, they have blasted beyond that. These people now have the politics of a fringe 1960's Birch Society candidate who thinks fluoridation causes race mixing. They have been Spiro Agnew-pilled.

This would all be a dumb little thing to snicker at if it were, indeed, confined to tumblr and X studies courses at liberal arts colleges. But it's not. It's absolutely not. It's being normalized in a staggering number of white collar spaces and people can and do face formal discipline for pointing out how utterly fucking insane it is.

Does anyone truly want this? Is this what you marched for in 2020? Is this what your workplaces and schools should look like? Are these the people we truly desire to empower? Because we are barreling toward the point of no return with this stuff.

You gotta stop it with the "golly gee we're just trying to teach folks about racism and slavery" bullshit. That was annoying in 2020; it's outright dangerous now. This is not education. This is not a process of healing. This is an extremely reactionary ideological project that's going to have negative reverberations for decades to come.

#critical race theory #diversity equity and inclusion #Blue MAGA

[odinsblog]

“When I was growing up, I was taught in American history books that Africa had no history, and neither did I. That I was a savage about whom the less said the better, who had been saved by Europe and brought to America. And of course, I believed it. I didn't have much choice. Those are the only books there were.

I am stating very seriously, and this is not an overstatement, I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the railroads. Under someone else's whip for nothing. For nothing.

If one has got to prove one's title to the land, isn't 400 years enough? 400 years, at least three wars. The American soil is full of the corpses of my ancestors. Why is my freedom or my citizenship, or my right to live there, how is it conceivably a question now?

What we are not facing is the results of what we've done.

What one begs the American people to do, for all our sakes, is simply to accept our history until the moment comes when we, the Americans, we the American people, we are trying to forge a new identity for which we need each other.

Until this moment, there is scarcely any hope for the American dream because the people who are denied participation in it, by their very presence, will wreck it.”

—James Baldwin, debating William F. Buckley at Cambridge Union Society, February 18, 1965

#james baldwin #black history #whitewashing history #blacklivesmatter #racism #dei #diversity equity and inclusion #the american dream

[commonsensecommentary]

I wrote this only a couple of weeks ago about the peculiar career and Harvard presidency of Claudine Gay. Now that she is gone, a self-serving letter of resignation trailing in her wake, perhaps now is a good time to contemplate the root causes of the problems caused by our DEI obssession.

#claudine gay #harvard #DEI #diversity equity and inclusion #leadership #education #woke #woke cult #woke is a joke #woke racism