Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work
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This year we got July 4 off but not Juneteenth. I think that preference for holidays is coming under the microscope. Corporate won’t just add another day for Juneteenth, presumably, but they may trade July 4 for it. Probably don’t want to trade MLK day for it. The other viable option is Presidents’ Day. Nobody cares about that one.
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Hmm, like @Renauda never heard of this day until today.
While I "kind" of understand it, there are also a lot of important days in history that are not national holidays.
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The two VPs I was most familiar with through my career were both gay, but it was never a thing with either of them. Just something everybody knew about and nobody cared about. They both retired early this year, just in time to not be involved with this new thing where they're supposed to be public and proud representatives of their people. What a shittily awkward position to be put in. Not everybody is down with this identitarian stuff, even those who ostensibly gain cultural credibility with the claim to it.
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@Horace said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
The two VPs I was most familiar with through my career were both gay, but it was never a thing with either of them. Just something everybody knew about and nobody cared about. They both retired early this year, just in time to not be involved with this new thing where they're supposed to be public and proud representatives of their people. What a shittily awkward position to be put in. Not everybody is down with this identitarian stuff, even those who ostensibly gain cultural credibility with the claim to it.
Someone I work with is currently raising shit that we're not off on Monday for Juneteenth. It's like bro, shut the fuck up, you're a contractor. You don't get paid if you don't show up, which by the way is always your option.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Contractors don’t get to have opinions on personnel matters.
Which they shouldn't even care about. But of course this is about leveraging power through minority PR, not personnel or a holiday. So, have fun with your alienation, man, I hope the pariah thing works out for you.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Again, a poor strategy for temporary resources.
Absolutely! Probably applies to the whole woke debacle in general, too.
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Had a thought about Juneteenth, and this is the closest thread I could find.
Today's Google Doodle is of a group of blacks noodling around in a park or something. All black faces, no whites.
It occurred to me to wonder, aren't whites allowed to commemorate Juneteenth? Isn't it reasonable to suppose that the end of slavery of human beings is also a source of gladness for whites?
In fact, in a much, much less abhorrent and frightful way, were not whites also liberated at that time from the onus of owning humans?
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@Catseye3 said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Had a thought about Juneteenth, and this is the closest thread I could find.
Today's Google Doodle is of a group of blacks noodling around in a park or something. All black faces, no whites.
It occurred to me to wonder, aren't whites allowed to commemorate Juneteenth? Isn't it reasonable to suppose that the end of slavery of human beings is also a source of gladness for whites?
In fact, in a much, much less abhorrent and frightful way, were not whites also liberated at that time from the onus of owning humans?
You're about 30 years behind where the narrative has strayed to.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
You're about 30 years behind where the narrative has strayed to.
Well, that is alarming, if true.
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@Catseye3 said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Had a thought about Juneteenth, and this is the closest thread I could find.
Today's Google Doodle is of a group of blacks noodling around in a park or something. All black faces, no whites.
It occurred to me to wonder, aren't whites allowed to commemorate Juneteenth? Isn't it reasonable to suppose that the end of slavery of human beings is also a source of gladness for whites?
In fact, in a much, much less abhorrent and frightful way, were not whites also liberated at that time from the onus of owning humans?
Yeh, I mean, who TOLD them they were free, anyway? Huh?
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I think you should do a shout-out to Anglo-Saxons for their pioneering role worldwide in ending slavery. Express how much pride you feel that this 10,000 year old scourge of mankind was essentially ended in less than a century once your fine people set their minds to it. Propose a toast to our moral leadership.
DON’T let them eat cake.
- RFK Jr
