Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

That one has always been an attention-seeking fairy. I'd say spending even 2 minutes in her company would make you miserable.

Which one? Newton or Page? Because Thandiwe is easy on the eye. Would be quite happy spending some time in her company.

silverharp wrote: »

one airline I wont be flying on, there are certain jobs that you assume are there becuase they are the best of the best they can get, this is one of them

https://twitter.com/united/status/1379426304857141250

Western society going in reverse in its inexorable effort to virtue signal. We are living in surreal times

Deleted User wrote: »

Airline pilots and brain surgeons are the examples I have been using for years for why I think quotas or affirmative actions of any sort are regressive. If I am having brain surgery or being flown in a plane my only criteria is the best people for the jobs have gotten through the selection process. To put any ''squeeze'' or limitation on qualifying for such positions, beyond absolutely essential technical skills and meeting medical criteria, is an unbelievably stupid thing to do, in its very essence.

i'd add the military, firemen, police even, the quality shouldnt drop for quotas because they deal with life and death

Demonising of intellectual and scientific experts in order to keep the masses in fear of God and their government in order to make a ****load of money.

First really noticeable under Nixon (although it probably has earlier roots), acclerated by Reagan and - well, the genie was well and truly out of the bottle by the time Trump came to power.

Deleted User wrote: »

We used to have nepotism, where the bosses idiot son got to become a branch manager or similar, despite being totally unsuitable for the role.
Now we could have airline pilots doing these jobs to "make up the numbers", regardless of their abilities.
No doubt there are many of the "minority" who have the competency to match the "majority", but what about the ones who are pushed up the ladder to make up the numbers?

sounds like rte

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Meritocracy only works if the the standards of merit are high, and the people with natural ability are given equal oppertunites to the training required.

That would be a separate thread I would think. What about ppl who work their way up against all sorts of issues and finally have the experience and qualifications only to be told sorry you cant get the job because you are not aligned correctly on our BS virtue pyramid.....hardly fair that now is it!!

That is Wrong... just wrong

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I would agree - but there are lots of people in very positions simply because they ARE aligned correctly. That's equally wrong.

First thing you want to do to implement a meritocracy is to scrap democracy. Popularity is not merit.

I think the bit you miss is that the ppl who are aligned correctly will have the backing of the ppl who want a new alignment, due to the nature of power control. Those who have it want to keep it, and those who want it will fight for it only to come to an arrangement with the existing establishment. In irish history it t'would be called you can keep your land but you need to obey the new order. The only ones squeezed out will be the folks who probably worked on true honest merit to get as far as they could since these are the only fools who think that you will be rewarded by getting up early in the morning to quote a person who is part of both the old alignment and the new alignment in a personified example of what I am describing.

Did anyone actually care about her name (either one of them)?
Was it actually a barrier of entry for her acting career and only now she feels she can "take it back" ?
wtf is this rubbish?

Besides there are plenty of actors/musicians who have stage names/slightly different spelling of their real name etc
Its not exactly unusual to create a more "marketable" name and run with that, but nope, I guess that goes onto the racism list too.

The biggest problem seems to be, everything that is said is just taken at face value.
Nothing is ever challenged anymore.
Not that I am a fan of him, but fair play to Piers Morgan for actually calling out atleast one example, the "I think she is lying" == racist.

And there was me thinking that Rod Stewart was singing about genocide in his song Young Turks

https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1379468714815467524

Nermal wrote: »

Yes it is. The electorate judging who's best. Not you. Not 'experts'.

I think certain roles should require qualifications within a democracy, for example I would like to see County/City Managers being elected but that the candidates would have to have experience and qualifications to meet that role, weather in finance or in engineering or city planning etc.

Anyway I think there are a lot of people put into positions due to who they know.