Re: Job Offer

On 3/22/2025 9:24 PM, John B. wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:26:32 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

On 3/21/2025 6:56 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 5:46 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/21/2025 5:58 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 4:54 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/21/2025 5:04 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:41:36 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>

On 3/21/2025 2:44 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:32:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
wrote:
>

On 3/21/2025 12:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/21/2025 6:06 AM, John B. wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:04:16 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

On 3/21/2025 12:23 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

>
Hey, let's have none of that DEI stuff here. You're
supposed to pretend
black people never existed. Like Jackie Robinson, for
example.
>

>
Hey, they aren't pretending he never existed, they're
pretending he
wasn't black.
>
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense- department-
jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was- mistakenly-
removed/ar-AA1BfyKN
>
The ethnic cleansing lead to other "mistakes".
>
"Besides the Robinson information, the official said
other content will
be republished, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola
Gay, the Navajo
Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and
the Marines at
Iwo Jima. Enola Gay was the name of a B-29 Superfortress
bomber."
>
Sure, let's pretend institutionalized rascism never existed.

>
It has probably has always existed and probably always
will -"Them
guys over there, they ain't no good!"

>
But what we're seeing now is official actions to wipe out
public access to information containing some "trigger words"
using crude algorithms generated by glorified hackers
working for an unelected billionaire. Seriously, we
shouldn't read about the "Enola Gay" bomber? Changing URLs
by automatically prefixing them with "dei" if the subjects
of the web pages are black?
>
That's ignorant bullshit.
>
>

>
>
I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with
you.   Ill considered over reaction, and it ought to be
reworked.
>
In the same way that killing white SA farmers because they
are white is not a good resolution to the prior racism.

>
"I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with
you."
>
I did research too, and all I see is people claiming that it's
being
done.   Much like people making claims about Trumps visit to
Russia.

>
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense-department-
jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was-mistakenly-
removed/ar-AA1BfyKN
>
I can't imagine what it's like to wander though life so willfully
ignorant.

>
"mistakenly"

>
That's like "Judge, I shot him by mistake! He moved his head in
front of my handgun just as I pulled the trigger. And I had his
wallet so I could  give it to his widow."
>
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-restores- some-
webpages-honoring-minority-service-members-but- defends- dei-purge
>
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us- politics/
military-trump-dei-code-talkers-b2716915.html
>
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/dei-web-pages- cms- nih-go-
dark-00200123
>
But I understand your ignorance. You can't open your eyes while your
head is buried in the sand.
>
>
>

>
Which confirms that the action was hasty and not well thought
through, as we discussed.
>
It also shows me they are correcting, which is right.

>
They are correcting only as a response to widespread outrage from both
sides of the political spectrum. I think they were surprised that even
Republicans revered military and others who were not lily white.
>

>
Ohferchrissake.
They erred. And they are rectifying the errors.

>
Sez you, and to what effect? "white" washing institutional racism
endemic in the history of the US? Yeah, real helpful...

 I read the other day that Fort Bragg had it's name changed as it was
named for a confederate general  and then changed back.
 

At Gen Sherman's funeral, CSA Gen Johnston stood in a freezing rain as the cortege slowly passed, holding his hat over his heart with his remaining arm.  When encouraged to step inside he replied, "He would do the same for me."*
I have no particular feelings about Gen Bragg one way or the other but a case could be made and not frivolously.
*Chilled and exhausted at his age, he died shortly thereafter.
--
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971