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Worse yet, it's destroying the fabric of our society. I've know my neighbor since I was a kid, always having a friendly relationship. Just yesterday we were tal

by slacka 6y ago

Worse yet, it's destroying the fabric of our society. I've know my neighbor since I was a kid, always having a friendly relationship. Just yesterday we were talking about my uncle and somehow he jumped how angry he was at "Coke for training their employees to 'be less white'". So I pull out my phone, and first hit is a fact-check showing it's a right-wing, culture war fabrication. I see the same on the other side with younger generation. We've lost a shared set of facts. Social media and the filter bubble it creates is destroying our country by radicalizing people with addictive disinformation.

kingsuper20 6y ago
Probably the most forgiving take on the subject. https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less-white-learning-plan-was-about-workplace-inclusion-1570875 https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less... mea culpa. Here I am, feeding the beast.
- slacka 6y ago
  I should have left out any details because they are a distraction. My point was I could not have a friendly conversation with my neighbor, because he was all wound up over a culture war issue fed by Facebook. But for the record, here was what I saw on my quick phone fact-check at the time, that contradicted his claims about Coke having an anti-white/anti-conservative policy[1][2]. > In a statement, Coca-Cola denied the video and images circulating on social media were part of the company’s learning curriculum. But these details really didn't matter. What would have been a positive neighborly interaction 20 years ago, was soured because of today's environment. This is going on all across America. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-coca-cola-ceos-alleged-insult-conservatives-false/6872079002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fac... [2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-training-less-white/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-training-less-wh...
labatyd 6y ago
You should at least entertain the idea that you might be the one who is wrong in that interaction. I googled your exact quote and it looks like it’s 100% true not some right wing conspiracy. Even if you are going to try and bend over backward and claim that’s not what coco cola intended, the literal fact is they require their employees to take a training and in that training they are told to be less white. That makes your quote above literally a true thing that happened. I can see why he would be angry at you for trying to pretend the literal facts in front of his face are not true.
- Buge 6y ago
  I'm not sure it was true, I haven't seen evidence yet. Is there evidence that Coke promoted the course to its employees? It sounds to me like it might have just been some course on a platform that Coke didn't create. For example if Coke required employees to watch a youtube video, then some other weird video showed up in the youtube recommendations, that wouldn't be Coke requiring or promoting that weird video.
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by slacka 6y ago

kingsuper20 6y ago

Probably the most forgiving take on the subject. https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less-white-learning-plan-was-about-workplace-inclusion-1570875 https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less... mea culpa. Here I am, feeding the beast.

slacka 6y ago
I should have left out any details because they are a distraction. My point was I could not have a friendly conversation with my neighbor, because he was all wound up over a culture war issue fed by Facebook. But for the record, here was what I saw on my quick phone fact-check at the time, that contradicted his claims about Coke having an anti-white/anti-conservative policy[1][2]. > In a statement, Coca-Cola denied the video and images circulating on social media were part of the company’s learning curriculum. But these details really didn't matter. What would have been a positive neighborly interaction 20 years ago, was soured because of today's environment. This is going on all across America. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-coca-cola-ceos-alleged-insult-conservatives-false/6872079002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fac... [2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-training-less-white/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-training-less-wh...

labatyd 6y ago

You should at least entertain the idea that you might be the one who is wrong in that interaction. I googled your exact quote and it looks like it’s 100% true not some right wing conspiracy. Even if you are going to try and bend over backward and claim that’s not what coco cola intended, the literal fact is they require their employees to take a training and in that training they are told to be less white. That makes your quote above literally a true thing that happened. I can see why he would be angry at you for trying to pretend the literal facts in front of his face are not true.

Buge 6y ago
I'm not sure it was true, I haven't seen evidence yet. Is there evidence that Coke promoted the course to its employees? It sounds to me like it might have just been some course on a platform that Coke didn't create. For example if Coke required employees to watch a youtube video, then some other weird video showed up in the youtube recommendations, that wouldn't be Coke requiring or promoting that weird video.

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