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The article doesn't use the word "racist" or "racism", it says that a university enacted a policy of being more understanding about tardiness due to cultural di
by Hasu 2y ago
The article doesn't use the word "racist" or "racism", it says that a university enacted a policy of being more understanding about tardiness due to cultural differences.
As someone who has never been in a meeting that started on time, usually due to white male managers who are bad at time management, I can understand this need to be tolerant of other cultures and their idiosyncrasies.
- 3np 2y ago> A little birdie (Twitter) pointed us to an interesting report regarding tardiness: it may be racist to expect employees to show up to work on time. The very first line of the article you are referring to.
- Hasu 2y agoOkay, I was wrong, but the rest of the article discusses it normally and not with the rhetoric of an aggrieved hillbilly.
- rolisz 2y agoThis link better? https://www.aei.org/op-eds/smithsonian-institution-explains-that-rationality-hard-work-are-racist/ https://www.aei.org/op-eds/smithsonian-institution-explains-...
- ADeerAppeared 2y agoYou're linking conservative think-tanks, not the original source from the smithsonian. If you'd look at the original infographic, it's about which norms and values are considered "default" in the US, inherited from (white) European values. With "Hard work" in specific: > Protestwant Work Ethic > * Hard work is the key to success > * Work before play > * "If you didn't meet your goals, you didn't work hard enough" And I'm sorry but the notion that these are human-invented norms and values, not "laws of the universe", is pretty fucking milquetoast. If you genuinely believe all failures at your job are the result of you not hustle-grinding hard enough, that not even a single element contributing to those failures has been out of your control, I have a bridge to sell you.