Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”

Meta claims it will find other ways to hire employees from different backgrounds.

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NBC has reported that Facebook now will allow people to post that homosexuality is mental illness, misinformation that is extremely toxic. Check out the language that Meta provided as the explanation if you want to become very sickened.

The gay = crazy myth was dispelled in 1956 by Dr. Evelyn Hooker, who decided to actually investigate the matter for the first time instead of doing what everyone else had done which is use "common sense" (wild bigoted assumption based on historical socialization). One of the experts who reviewed the data she gathered was so convinced of his "common sense" bigotry that he admitted later that he reviewed the data completely two times because he couldn't accept that gay people aren't crazy. At least he had the integrity to not only come out in favor of the facts but admitted his bigotry as a teachable moment. Despite that, it took the APA until the 70s to finally recognize the science. Zealots continue to falsely claim that the decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM was done primarily due to political pressure.

NPR even gave one of those guys' daughters (Spitzer) something like 22–27 minutes (I don't recall the exact number of minutes) during the Bush W administration to try to convince the public of this lie. It took her 15 minutes before she got to the name Hooker (and her pathetic attempt to handwaive the science). According to this particular mythology, poor social scientists like her father Spitzer were so bullied by horrible gay activists that they simply had no choice but to turn their backs on scientific truth. What a crock... thanks NPR. Did NPR follow that piece with a rebuttal or even a sentence or two about the actual facts? Nope. I can only guess that, like Zuckerberg, there was a decision to try to curry favor with the administration.

Facebook will hold "your" account hostage for 30 days if you try to delete it to protest this corporate hate for profit (or for any other reason, such as not wanting to help Zuckerberg build his flaming moat).

I hope that Ars will cover this. It's closely related to the DEI matter, of course — but it's certainly noteworthy enough to be an additional article. The words provided by Meta as explanation/justification are truly breathtaking in their odiousness and viciousness.

 

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Just imagine if people would just stop supporting companies like Meta, or any other corporation owned and run by the billionaire sociopaths.

The people building flaming moats and end times shelters (which have reportedly replaced getting a larger and larger yacht as the yardstick for elite standing) would have to find other work, such as trying to preserve the recently reported 25% of freshwater species on the verge of extinction, thanks to such "success." I need to have a chat with Stephen King, suggesting a story about billionaires using flaming moats to kill endangered species for sport.

 

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I need to have a chat with Stephen King, suggesting a story about billionaires using flaming moats to kill endangered species for sport.

The Washington Post would surely then run George Will, who rails against the Endangered Species Act (something Trump & Co will soon burn to the ground, with the helping hand of the Supreme Court if it ends up in their hat — likely as overkill as Trump already, in all caps, shouted that he's going to use executive power to give the biosphere away completely to anyone who can muster a paltry 1.5 billion or whatever the figure was). Will would react to this tale by suggesting that the only species that is endangered is the scholarly American conservative, and not solely due to DEI in HR departments.

Did anyone actually read his article pissing on Jimmy Carter, posted immediately after he died? It was titled something like Jimmy Carter — The Man Who Made Reagan Necessary. I couldn't be bothered. Even my morbid curiosity about how low Pulitzer winners can stoop ran out after his attack of the cave spiders piece.

Let's create a Nude Emperor's prize to award to all of the people, like George Will, who are making "strategic" insanity great again. My first nominee is Mark Zuckerberg. Or, perhaps we should name the prize after Dr. Leaded Gasoline (Midgley), a completely perfect encapsulation of the folly of so-called capitalism and its "profit."

This extremely poisonous compound that I know is extremely poisonous... Well... I'll just wash my hands in it to demonstrate its safety to the public and my safety to my corporate overlords (right along side the Ph.d from Harvard who said radium is absolutely safe for those girls to put into their mouths and the Johns Hopkins black lung expert who never found cases of black lung).

When those 25% of freshwater species go extinct, The George Wills of the world will have articles at the ready to try to jettison the remaining 75. As a gay person, I'm not feeling particularly fresh... a bit like the manatees in Florida after yet another run-in with showboating.

Midgley had found that tellurium, which is much less toxic than lead, also stopped engine knock. However, it had an odor and it was decided that the public (I mean the insane corporate overlords) would be better off if the poisoning could happen silently.