Friday, July 17, 2020

Thank God I'm no longer in the corporate world and within the reach of big corporate HR.

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"Thank God I'm no longer in the corporate world and within the reach of big corporate HR.
Yesterday, I was speaking to a friend who jut came back from an expat assignment in Europe to become the head of a division of a Fortune 500 company here in the US.
Image result for  "white privilege" trainingHe told me that the explosion of mandatory "race sensitivity" and "white privilege" training flowing down from all corporate HQ was unbelievable in both volume and speed. 
He said it is at least double - maybe triple - the wave of #MeToo indoctrination that was just beginning to wind down.
The commonality he noted with the former "training" was that it isn't enough to not be a racist, you have to be "anti-racist", which means you have to actively cheerlead for BLM.
He noted that was exactly what the HR leadership promoted for sexual orientation and how the corporation began promoting "Pride" events and the ritual shaming of #MeToo where males were afraid to compliment a female colleague.
The premise put forth in both cases was that if you didn't celebrate LGBTQ causes, you were a homophobe and if you didn't parse every word spoken to a female employee, you were a sexual predator...
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