Chicago museum fires all of it's mostly White female, financially well-off docents....

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    This is silly. They're going to have to train a lot of new people. I really think they could just bring on more a more diverse staff thru attrition:
     
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    They fired VOLUNTEERS?
     
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    I guess that is possible? I mean they were told they no longer have those positions. Perhaps there is a better term for it?

    They... let go... severed the relationship.... eliminated .... ??? .... fired seems fine. These people wanted the positions and were eliminated due to their color / status. Does that seem moral?
     
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    And here is the spin!
    Firing is firing dude. Why can’t you just admit it’s racist instead of some sorry arse spin?
     
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    They see it as an opportunity to pay black people for the same volunteer work albeit less quality and expertise.. Not commen sense. The question...Will they discriminate against whites when they hire for the paid positions.?
     
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    No, they fired white people.
     
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    They want to turn a free service into an expense? WTF? This is insane.

    Clown World.
     
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    That's not really a "question", as in, something in doubt. Of course they will.

    On the one hand, race-based discrimination is an ugly thing. On the other hand, as well-off white women in Chicago, the docents are probably getting exactly the sort of thing they've voted for, and the people of Chicago are going to get exactly the sort of mediocre service they've voted for, so there's at least some justice to be found in all of this.
     
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    Dems are ok with this racism.
     
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    That's wrong.
     
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    I suppose you can’t be white to even volunteer in the extreme left view. Unbelievable
     
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    You know they are Liberal White Women... lol.

    It would be fun to have lunch with a bunch of them right after this happened.
     
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    When you fire all your White staff you aren't diversifying... you're cleansing.
     
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    LoL... this was a diversity hire who got the job 6 months ago. So woke and so incompetent. A person like her at my company would bankrupt it in just a few years.

    Given what has passed for art in the past century, it is hard to imagine that anything could destroy something that was already destroyed decades ago. I visited the Basilica of St Josephat this weekend (a piece of architecture built by Polish immigrants in 1895) and my God I could not think of anything built in the last 50 years with even half the beauty of that precious gem. Subvert away, Veronica Stein, subvert away.

    https://www.artic.edu/press/press-r...ve-director-of-learning-and-public-engagement

    https://thebasilica.org/
     
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    /gasp You mean you don't regard George Floyd graffiti as fine art?!?
     
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    They are replacing them with $25/hour workers and want that scaled down worker pool to be diverse. If they say whites need not apply for the paid positions, then they are being racist. Otherwise, my guess is these rich white housewives volunteer docents are the types who are politically correct to begin with and support the efforts given their lack of outrage.
     
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    This.
     
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    It's not silly is is stupid and absurd and probably a civil rights violation and the members of the staff who came up with this and are not trying to institute should all be fired and the docents brought back on the job.
     
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    Volunteers that go through years of multiple days a week of training and education in order to do the job. But let's bring in the boys from the hood and just hope that none of the art works get hit by a bullet.
     
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    Yes...they aren't outraged. They are simply saddened. So sad.
     
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    Wokism attacks feminism. Let the games begin.
     
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    What is the world coming too? Why, I can remember when that was a white only privilege.
     
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    Well, they can volunteer at one of their causes. The Lincoln Park Zoo maybe. They can shush the lions at night.
     
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    I agree which is why I grudging approve of the move. The people being fired were probably almost all well to do woke white women, who deserve to be fired and replaced by someone from the many victim classes that want a piece of the pie.

    In fact, if you are a woke white person, you should quit your job so some minority can have it. Otherwise, you're a hypocrite.
     
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    Firing unpaid volunteers without already having trained replacements in place, seems pretty idiotic to me.
     

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