Google goes full social justice. You can't imbibe just a little of the doctrine, without being infected by the entire http://j.mp/2YhfxPb . Here's document one, for the "diversity training" as of Feb 2018, Allyship 101:pic.twitter.com/WEOlr2HP2L
'Whiteness grants material ... advantages that are often invisible'. Google is training its employees to believe in things that are material yet invisible? Like ghosts? Phlogiston? Reptilians in stealthy Predator-type armor? Okee dokee.
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I wonder how much of the swing in cultural beliefs here is motivated by profit - is this a move to solidify a profitable reputation? Will it swing back if this reputation stops being profitable?
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Google thinks this stuff makes them look virtuous to the public, but they're in such an ideological bubble, they have no idea how dumb and incompetent it makes them look to everyone else.
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Anyone with a modicum of intellect read that as "not immediately apparent" not "transparent but noticable because the edges are slightly distorted." Aren't your supposed to be smart? Haven't I heard you advocate for "iron-manning" arguments?
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My thoughts exactly - the fact that tweets like these come from
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Literally every thought you’ve ever had is material and invisible.
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Also it's circularity - to ask for evidence of said 'invisible advantages' is a function of whiteness- as it privileges objective and evidence-based narratives over lived-experiences and is, therefore, to be disregarded.
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Electric field, radiation, air, heat, atoms, molecules, are all things that are material and invisible.
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I love a good phlogiston reference!
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phlogiston fcking ROCKED!
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