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The diversity industry is worth $8 billion per year these days. So... yeah. (Also FYI, it's not about opposing institutional bias, it's about signaling and cor
by jlawson 6y ago
The diversity industry is worth $8 billion per year these days. So... yeah.
(Also FYI, it's not about opposing institutional bias, it's about signaling and corporate power games.)
- therealdrag0 6y agoWhere’d you get this number? First time hearing about it.
- jlawson 6y agoChapo Trap House episode about the White Fragility book.
- hef19898 6y agoAnd for some strange reason, for equal-rights activists it is abad thing to make a living and earn money fighting for these rights. The usual argument is always "they are paid to further an agenda", indirectly undermining the message, the messanger and the issue at hand. This doesn't seem to aplly for the otherside. People like Alex Jones make a load of money representing the opposite opinion. For him, making money all of a sudden isn#t a problem anymore.
- the_omegist 6y agoNo. It's perfectly fine (and even amazing) to make a living from a cause that is important to you. But it's disingenuous to believe that activists 1) will not see what "obsess" them everywhere (that's a common psychological bias) and 2) will not try to make their cause as important as they can by inflating the numbers.