So the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, announced it’s investigating Comcast for having a diversity program. And this white guy I work with went on a long rant about how promoting minorities in the workplace amounts to discrimination against white people. Can’t even believe people like this are employed at Comcast. Tempted to report him to HR 😂
I can’t wait for my employer to get in trouble for me being an engineer instead of some cishet white guy who can’t do algebra.
Can we just not discriminate based on race? The DEA was pretty good and since when does the FCC have jurisdiction with employment.
I assume you mean DEI and not the drug enforcement agency, which is infamously bad. And the FCC has broad powers over broadcasters. That said this definitely feels like a reach of power. Like, this feels like the sort of thing I wouldn’t think they have the internal skill base to do.
The executive branch has exploded in power. Ever since the start of the cold war it has slowly become more and more powerful. Everyone from Bush to Obama has pushed the limits.
Comcast just has to show the FCC a breakdown of average bandwidth by race and they’ll back off. All broadband companies have been playing racial favoritism since long before it was cool.
Not mild, post elsewhere
The way I know anti-DEI sentiments are inherently racist no matter how they spin it is because they seem to forget DEI literally also covers white people. Especially for ivy league university selection and the tech industry. They’re either so far up their own ass they completely forgot about that (until it comes back to bite them in said ass) or they don’t care because they know and are secure in the fact that anti-DEI is pro-whiteness and will be enacted as such.
Either OOP has somehow missed all the statistics about non-white people being underrepresented in anything desirable (media bubble?), or they think white people are naturally more qualified on average, somehow.
I will relish the day someone like this gives me the opportunity to point that out to them.
Oh jeez I wonder if those two possibilities interact with each other. Fortunately universities in my state aren’t allowed to research such things anymore
You should report him to his HR rep.
Can’t even believe people like this are employed at Comcast
People like this are employed fucking everywhere.
But especially at Comcast.
Dude is so thick that he used an example of a time when he was a minority within his department and discriminated against as a way to argue that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against minorities.
Like bro. Do you not understand that this scenario is insanely more common for racial and ethnic minorities to encounter in our society at large and that’s why we have DEI programs to begin with?
It’s common for conservatives in majority groups to have the sort of experience that could imbue empathy for minorities and instead use it to argue for cracking down against them
Literally no part of this is arguing that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against minorities.
DEI is discriminating against majorities. Anything other than merit as a consideration is discrimination.
Pretty sure you’re too old to be this stupid, dude.
They looked straight at them!!!
“and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me”
Invidious?
invidious adjective °Envious; causing or arising from envy. °Enviable; desirable.
Maybe he meant “insidious”?
Bold of you to assume the guy in charge of the FCC has any idea what he’s doing or saying.
The way it’s meant to be played.
Upvote this comment if you think it’s okay to discriminate against white people.
Surely nobody can be that dumb?
It was upvoted at first but then went negative. I have to say it’s a relief that people aren’t yet willing to embrace that position openly.
What’s lovely is that the people who upvoted… don’t seem to realize that their votes on lemmy are quite public.
Thanks for generating a ban-list for my instance!
Was it you that removed my comment?
I’m not admin for your instance. So no.
Don’t be a piss baby
Don’t worry… the owner class treats all of us like field ******s
But sure we can do this culture war circle jerk real quick here for the funsies
I don’t see how it’s “culture war circle jerk” to run a poll on how many people think discriminating based on race is okay. Care to explain?
Read some Karl Marx
Did you pick anything up when you read Marx? Are you able to articulate your thinking here?
he’s so eloquent, I clearly understood how he was innocent of whatever they said he was guilty of.
