When financially successful entertainers and such also complain like this, I can't help but wonder if they think, somewhere in the back of their minds, that now that they've climbed up the ladder, they're going to pull it up so no one beneath them can reach their level, not even considering for a moment that they'll probably be pushed off the top by the very system they wanted to put into power.
There's a certain irony when celebrities and other wealthy/high-status individuals lecture others about privilege or classism without realizing they have the same privilege and class status they're criticizing and speaking out against.
He then started talking about “resourceism,” and it quickly became clear that the actual purpose of the meeting was for him to meme a new business buzzword into existence.
This goes to show that there's an -ism for anything. And if not, one can easily be made.
I had to look it up, because there`s no way this moron came up with this on his own. And not only did he rip it off from someone else, he`s using it wrong. It`s some academic libtard term for humans having the audacity to believe that natural resources are there for them to use.
Wordsmithing
and appropriation at the same time? Color me surprised. (I'm sure that just helped someone fill their buzzword bingo card, too)
(For those of you who don`t work in corporate settings, not knowing and repeating the latest buzzwords earns you disappointed frowns and headshakes from your boss. It`s not important to know what the buzzword means, it`s only important that you use it. And only an uncultured bumpkin will be crass enough to ask out loud what the new buzzword means, and then, should someone deign to bestow his knowledge to your unenlightened pleb self, have the audacity to translate it into understandable English for everyone else.)
This happened near the end of my previous profession. I asked about a peculiar corporate buzzword left on the whiteboard from a previous senior staff meeting and learned it was a pretentious way to describe what's normally a mundane thing/process. Privately, one of my outspoken coworkers from that job questioned the benefit of the overpriced corporate retreat that prompted the blitz of buzzwords.
Their reasons for "white man bad" are always bonkers, too. That's key. It can't be "white man stole muh land (by winning war I started.)" It has to be something like "white man bad because he believe in working hard. Evil white man use scientific method and take showers."
Or it's simply "White man bad simply for existing."
There's nothing wrong with recognizing the positive contributions made by people of various backgrounds. CRT, however, seems more intent on shitting on white people to make everyone else seem better.
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It may have been brought up before, but "systematic racism" is a pissoff-worthy term. My part of Kiwiland has determined that there's systematic racism in the health care field based on the treatment (or lack thereof) minorities received during the COVID pandemic. As such, all heath care professionals now have to undergo an approved form of diversity training when they next renew their licenses,
One of the retired health care professionals I know has opted to let their license lapse and not renew it in response to this mandate because (1) they resent the blanket assumption that all medical pros are inherently racist, and (2) they were raised in an era where people were taught some form of the Golden Rule and avoiding judgement based on irrelevant factors -- something they deem to be a far better lesson than anything to come out of any diversity/sensitivity training currently being offered by SJW and activist types.
