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2006-12-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

FrontPage Mag: Jane Elliott and her Blue-Eyed Devil Children

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Posted by .com 2006-12-27 12:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't it make my brown eyes blue?

--Crystal Gayle

Posted by badanov 2006-12-27 13:39|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-27 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 But my eyes change color all the time based on my mood! (Watch out when they are certain colors..)...

But, I am married to a Chinese, my kids are mixed with one dating a Hindu cuttie and my nephew is Chinese, Black and White...

So, why should I be a target of Jane Elliott for diversity training instead of somebody from a "mono" culture like say an Islamic Terrorist from Aceh?

Most people are a mix of something if you look into it. Cherkoee blood in lots of the MidWest and Southern "whites".

Maybe Jane is the prime candidate for her own diversity training...

BTW... one of the more bigoted persons I ever met was from an ex-colony of ours in the Pacific. You should have seen his face when I explained to him the difference between anything he or his ancestors may have experienced and what ex-slaves of any race have experienced be they black, white or green, Christian, Jewish or Buddhists... Oh and I pointed out how proud he was in the content of Spainsh blood in his line. Didn't that mean he looked down on others from his nation with less content?

Jane doesn't see the racism in lumpping folk into little boxes according to percived individual skin color and then assigning generic blame. Folks live and grow up in a family enviornment. All family members need not look alike...

Posted by 3dc 2006-12-27 14:20|| 2006-12-27 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 As we always suspected, it is a scam and a farce. Diversity training on the Elliott model does nothing to eliminate racism and almost certainly makes it worse.

There have been a number of spin-offs from this philosophy of sadistic abuse in the name of corporate attitude adjustment, including "high-impact executive training." This involves bringing junior executives into a seminar where they are subjected to verbal and psychological abuse for days on end in an effort to "toughen" them for the supposed battleground of the corporate world.

They have the option of leaving at any time of course but this would be a sign of weakness in front of their ~~fellow sharks~~ peers and you know what that means. Having seen both real war and real boardrooms, I find this laughable, but it is all the rage among certain corporations.

And just who has been the leading practitioner of this particular form of sado-masochistic corporate farce, the dominatrix in chief who earned millions in the process?
Why, none other than Janice Karpinski, corporate trainer extraordinaire and one-time Brigadier General in the US Army reserve. Karpinski's executive training career was put on hold for a while in 2003, when she was called to active duty to run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. She has apparently been too busy on the lecture circuit to revive it recently but she wouldn't have to drag clients in on a leash if she did revive it.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-27 14:32|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2006-12-27 14:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Corporations do this because it helps them cover their asses if discrimination suits come up.

The only people who this type of training helps are those from foreign countries with way different social values than Americans in public.

Posted by Penguin 2006-12-27 15:57|| 2006-12-27 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 "Racial sensitivity training" actually results in "Racism reinforcement training". Ordinarily, people will naturally segregate socially by race; however, when *class* is involved, people will associate with those of their class *ahead* of those of their race.

It's obvious. If you are white and enter a room, and on one side are an assortment of four black people and a white person, who are dressed in nice business clothes; and on the other side four shabby looking white people and a black person, if you are a middle class polite person, you will gravitate to the nice looking people, despite their *predominance* of race. If you are lower class, you will associate with the shabby people.

Note "predominance". Unless there is a racial "icebreaker", so it isn't all black on one side and all white on the other, most people will align with their race. Not out of attraction to their race, but out of assumed rejection by the other race.

However, "racial sensitivity training" actually tries to change this. It ignored class or any other attractants or repellents, and insists that all decisions be made on the basis of race.

But as with most social things, race is just one factor. So in essence they want you to constantly think about and segregate people socially according to race. Aka, racism.

You cannot associate with someone because you do business with them or have other commonalities, you must relate to them *only* by race. It doesn't matter if your wives or children are friends, if you went to school together, or any of the other innumerable human interactions.

Only race matters. It is "Racism reinforcement training".

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-27 16:28|| 2006-12-27 16:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I had to retake days 1 and 2 of our 4 day diversity training over again. I'd noted that "the Democrat Byrd Grand Kleagle from W. VA said there were white niggers too, on national TV, and the Democrat party refused to condemn him, so I guess it's all right?"...our facilitators were not amused. I pointed out that it was a fact, and that I would bring suit if they damaged my career in any way
:-)

I still had to take days 1 and 2 over....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-27 16:48|| 2006-12-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 All family members need not look alike
What Walt said.
I mean hell, my wife is from Reading PA!

/seriously tho.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-27 17:55|| 2006-12-27 17:55|| Front Page Top

#8 All family members need not look alike
What Walt said. I certainly hope not! I'd hate to wake up in the morning and have to kiss somebody who looks like me. Maybe that's why I'm single.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-12-27 18:17|| 2006-12-27 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 FAMILY GUY's PETER > "OMG, its the CHILDREN OF THE CORN". Blam ... Blam ...Blam from his shotgun.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-27 21:58|| 2006-12-27 21:58|| Front Page Top

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