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Patrick Graham's avatar

I want to celebrate this but I am very much aware that the woke ideology has embedded itself so very deeply into our institutional and public sphere...

As ever private corporate profit sensibility must lead us out of this nonsensical battle ground and reinstate meritocratic principles in every aspect of life improvement.

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Ian Watkins's avatar

It's still embedded in those organisations that don't need to make a profit and can rely on a neverending supply of cash, that is the Public Sector.

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Patrick Graham's avatar

yeah - that's my point, and my fear - somehow those bodies' own idiocy has to be made to trip them up... and generally they pay zero attention to the factual world of economics around them, whilst siphoning tax dollars into their pockets for making things worse.

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Grace Under Fire's avatar

Yes, perhaps not the death rattles of EDI, but it’s certainly limping a bit. 😏

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

Agreed!

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Terri's avatar

Nice one 👍

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nailbunny's avatar

Very few others - only one comes to mind - can start an essay about DEI with 'In 180 AD'.

Has anyone noticed 'DEI-ty'? Did I just think of that or am I unconsciously ripping someone off?

I would love to be a sensitivity reader. I'd read the book, give it a star rating and say 'Leave it as it is. Next!'

I think everyone should seek out Jake Graf(t)'s LinkedIn post and react with a Funny emoji. I hope the DEI fool I used to work with sees it. She has spent the last 2 years 'liking' and 'supporting' other DEI people posting lies about Israel and justifying each political post on LinkedIn self-righteously claiming they could not be silent in the face of genocide and famine. She continues in her DEI role at a prominent life sciences company, so it's not over yet, I'm afraid. I last saw her posting sanctimoniously about how she spent the 13th of September away from the Hate March, to which I commented with a photo of Tommy Robinson smiling for a selfie surrounded by smiling brown men - one of whom was wearing a Kufi.

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

Dei-ty makes sense, since it's a kind of religion. I didn't spot that.

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MattUK's avatar

A brilliant read, I love Andrew’s work. The wigs are being ripped off! 🤣

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

Thank you!

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Terri's avatar

Excellent. Looking forward to seeing you at the battle of ideas over the weekend and getting my book signed.😁

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

See you there...

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Diane Whiteoak's avatar

Long long overdue. The whole EDI scam creates racism where none previously existed.

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

It does indeed. And studies show that "unconscious bias" training can actually increase the likelihood of racism in the workplace. It's a racket.

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Diane Whiteoak's avatar

I had to go on a course while working got BUPA in the 1990’s I was upset and then furious to be told k sm racist with unconscious bias.

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MexiMac's avatar

Canada is immersed in the DEI doctrine. Our government institutions in particular have been sucked in. I suspect that we pay DEI nothing more than lip service and a less progressive government will be the one that dumps it it.

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

Yes, Canada seems pretty far gone. Perhaps it will follow the global trend away from this stuff eventually.

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Bettina's avatar

Like those 'B Corp Certified' companies - the woke stamp of approval. I positively swerve any business that promotes themselves with that label.

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Andrew Doyle's avatar

Ben & Jerry's springs to mind. Insufferable...

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Bettina's avatar

Oh god, yes!

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