Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work
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wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:19 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:22 last edited by@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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wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:28 last edited by
Contractors don’t get to have opinions on personnel matters.
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wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:39 last edited by Aqua Letifer
@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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wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:43 last edited by
Again, a poor strategy for temporary resources.
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wrote on 18 Jun 2022, 02:44 last edited by
@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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wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 23:48 last edited by
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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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?
wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 00:34 last edited by@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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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 00:57 last edited by
The status of Juneteenth is a sad commentary.
You think it is divisive now?
It is, very divisive.
Just wait until it is cancelled.
It is just as inevitable as Roe's cancellation.
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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.
wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 01:30 last edited by@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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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?
wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 01:43 last edited by@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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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 02:28 last edited by
I won't be able to attend the juneteenth celebration. I have Kwanza practice that day....
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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 02:50 last edited by jon-nyc
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.
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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.
wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 03:14 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
I think you should do a shout-out to Anglo-Saxons for their pioneering role worldwide in ending slavery..
Ok..
Yo Honkeys!!
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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 03:16 last edited by
Thanks, Lar. But I was thinking Horace should do so at his corporate event.
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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 03:18 last edited by Larry
@jon-nyc said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Thanks, Lar. But I was thinking Horace should do so at his corporate event.
I don't he ought to say honkey at his party....
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wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 21:11 last edited by
Juneteenth falling on Father’s Day must have Google working overtime.
White people are busy googling “what is Juneteenth,” while black people are googling “what is a Father?”
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Juneteenth falling on Father’s Day must have Google working overtime.
White people are busy googling “what is Juneteenth,” while black people are googling “what is a Father?”
wrote on 20 Jun 2022, 21:16 last edited by@George-K said in Juneteenth/pride virtual event at work:
Juneteenth falling on Father’s Day must have Google working overtime.
White people are busy googling “what is Juneteenth,” while black people are googling “what is a Father?”
:spittake: