What is this scary brainwashing crap that's popping up everywhere?
All of these corporate diversity and inclusion pledges that business executives have to all go sign now are unbelievable. And since crap always rolls downhill it's only a matter of time before CEOs start forcing all the rank and file to sign it too or lose their jobs.
It's seriously creepy and fascist.
I'm not doing it!
I refuse to have this insanity forced down my throat to save my job.
It's sick and demented.
https://www.ceoaction.com/pledge/

What's sick and demented is how people can get cancelled if they refuse.

Diversity and inclusion policies are already a standard in the corporate landscape. Employees are already forced to take training for it and sign an acknowledgement form.
But this step of taking a pledge goes too far. I swore an oath to my country when I joined the service.
I will not swear oaths to my employer regardless.

The whole thing rubs me wrong. The consequences of not only losing your job but finding yourself black listed for your refusal to accept will destroy your career. That sort of thing is totalitarianism plain and simple and its being enforced all over the place. Journalists and writers who refuse to blindly follow the narrative of the left, University professors who cannot in good conscience preach the diatribe of political correctness in place of real-world history. Politicians and former celebs that at one time decades ago made a snide remark about some groups of people etc. etc.
This power of cancellation being swung recklessly with wild abandon by a typically uninformed mob of woke witch hunters is a re-enactment of the Spanish Inquisition.

In practice diversity + inclusion policies boil down to more H1B visa employees from India.
Definitely the case where I work which despite their lip service for D+I is the least inclusive company culture I've ever seen but they hire entire departments worth of Indians as though it was a buy one get one free sale.
Recently I had a discussion with a black female coworker about how after a year I've never been introduced to anybody at company events and meetings etc. and the only reason I know the names of people in my office is because of name tags at their desks. She agreed and said that's the exact same experience she's had but she's been there 4 years longer than I have.

Funny how this inclusion nonsense doesn't even apply to black employees in real life. It's all a scam to replace American workers regardless of their race. And black employees there know it. They aren't blind.

philthymike wrote on 06/19/20 at 08:44:24:




Its there to bypass blacks. There was a job fair and one of the major banks rounded up a bunch of black people at their booth and started talking to them about - not the job or the company or $$ or any of that nonsense, they were explaining to them about "diversity" at their company and how important it was to them.
Like WTF ???? Its petty much like telling them you're only here because we've been told to talk to you.

This chit has been advertised, and popularized and publicized and promoted and socialized for 30+ yrs at this point, and spectacularly more and more and more black people have been pushed down ward - there have been a few that have been almost by accident as well as some who have worked for it get pulled up, almost seems random accident.

Cool.
Srinath.

 I always considered this to be a lawsuit and marketing issue.  A "pledge" or "oath" essentially means nothing to most people, especially if one isn't particularly religious or loyal to any ideology.  

 Much like a "guarantee" means essentially nothing in business, unlike a "warranty" which can legally be challenged.  An "Oath" is prosecutable in official office, but not in private business.

 "Pledge" allegiance to a flag - then burn it, nothing happens, "pledge" means nothing.  Tell everyone how much the US sucks, hold up "God hates the military" signs at veteran funerals: Nothing happens, pledge means nothing.

 Pledge money to a charity, ignore them later and never give any coin: Nothing happens, pledge means nothing.

 So in this case I'd say signing a pledge is more of a "Look what we did!" thing than anything else.

What does forcing someone to sign a pledge say?
Please don't pretend holding someone's job in the balance isn't Forcing them..

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/19/20 at 16:05:18:




Signing a pledge you don't believe in is essentially a le. If someone can get you to lie about one thing then you've demonstrated that you will cede the truth to meet their demands. That's very dangerous.