Thank you for your contribution to the discussion, Seán. It will be given the appropriate amount of consideration before we move on with forgetting you even exist.
Nepo babies are easily rilled up.
When you are wealthy and a nepo baby the world appears more like a meritocracy. Sean’s ideas get shot down when he pitches them and he sees this as proof the field is level.
It never occurs to him that most people never even get the meeting to get shot down in. It never occurs to him that his half-brother got fucked on his inheritance by Yoko. It never occurs to him that the word “imagine” exists because reality is different than the perceptions of someone who will never wonder what it’s like to argue with a landlord or budget for meals or have to work rather than choose to work on your own projects.
He looks like a character from Portlandia
Yoko’s son talking about splitting people up reminds me of something.
Who cares what nepo baby boy thinks?
Is this the son John Lennon cared about, or the one I care about? Important question.
Sean Lennon is a fucking moron, and his music is dogshit!
Your goal in an equitable society should be to remove the existing barriers that prevent certain demographics from participating equally, not giving the privileged a taste of their own medicine.
To me, the focus on DEI should be a strategy with an expiration date, not one that continues indefinitely. That way, 50 years from now, no one’s fighting for Chad, Brad, and Thad to be hired in a black, female-dominated workplace.
Trying to book a spot at the 2024 CPAC I see
I care about his opinion as much as Ja Rule’s
Why is Jason Schwartzman dressing up like Mr. Slave?
Sure he’s a nepo baby but the claypool Lennon delirium fucking slaps
Privileged people should be allowed to voice their opinion of course, but that’s where it ends. It’s just that – an opinion – in no way a fact.
You haven’t been in the body of a black woman trying to work in a male-dominated field (for example). You couldn’t possibly know what others are going through.
Why tf is SEAN LENNON worried about DEI? Is he getting turned down for corporate job interviews?? Is he trying to be an accountant or something? 😂
CRT is now DEI and soon another scary three letter acronym will be used to manipulate people’s fears and biases.
GASP. Creating policies that focus solely on the race and gender of applicants creates a systemic way of thinking that centers around race and gender? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.
Aww, Nepo baby has an opinion. Cute!
He looks like lord farquad
Cool. What does Dweezle Zappa have to say?
And that’s the only time he will use that phrase.
I’m gonna need Ja Rule’s take on this.
Sounds like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Says the prince of nepo-babies
Never go full Rowling.
As a hiring manager with MAGA relatives, I have to say this way more often than I’d like.
The idea that DEI is “racism” or “discrimination” is rooted in the idea that companies are hiring unqualified candidates because of their race (or gender, etc). That these under represented groups _inherently cannot produce a qualified candidate._
We’re big on DEI at my company. We have never once hired an unqualified candidate on a DEI basis. Not once.
What does happen is: I have three candidates who are about equal in qualifications, but one is a white dude, one is a white woman, and one is a black guy.
Qualifications being equal, there are valid business reasons for wanting to hire a “diversity” candidate.
The classic example I like to use is gender based, and I use it a lot because the people I know who are the loudest in opposition to DEI are white women. If your product has any privacy implications _at all_ you are potentially committing professional malpractice if you don’t have women on your team. Women know how your product will be used by abusers and stalkers, and will advocate to mitigate these concerns in ways that the men on your team will never understand.
I used to work for the IT department of a university, back before wifi and ubiquitous laptop usage. Every hardwired device on our network had a static IP with a reverse DNS that indicated its exact physical location. Think like someone sleeps on the right side of Room 206 in Davis Hall? Their IP would resolve to `rm206r.davis.uwhatever.edu`. And if you logged into a computer at the lab, it’d be `lab1seat15.smith.uwhatever.edu` and so on.
It was all Unix systems, too. So your IP would show up in lastlog. And if you sent emails to your classmates, your IP would show up in the headers. It was really trivial to track someone’s movements around campus. Figure out what their patterns were.
So a young woman in our school figured this out and complained. But no one with the power to make changes cared because they were all older white dudes who didn’t understand the threat. They didn’t believe it, or thought it was overblown. Who knows. But when I suggested we change this, I got shot down.
Well, it turned out she complained because a guy she rejected was using this to stalk her. A few weeks after we rejected her complaint, he saw she was logged into a Unix machine at the Smith Hall computer lab, so he went and waited for her to leave and attacked her. We gave him all the info he needed to catch her in a vulnerable place at a vulnerable time.
The next day we changed the naming scheme.
I guarantee you, if there were more women anywhere _near_ the decision making process, it would have been taken more seriously.
So yeah. If I have three equally qualified candidates and one is from an underrepresented group, I’m probably taking that person _because they will bring in a perspective that I’m lacking on my current team._
This plays into many biographical details, as well. Like, if I have a team that’s all ex-Amazon employees and I have three candidates 2 ex-Amazon and 1 ex-Google, I might take the Googler simply for a diverse perspective on how to do things. The list goes on.
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Thank you for your contribution to the discussion, Seán. It will be given the appropriate amount of consideration before we move on with forgetting you even exist.
Nepo babies are easily rilled up.
When you are wealthy and a nepo baby the world appears more like a meritocracy. Sean’s ideas get shot down when he pitches them and he sees this as proof the field is level.
It never occurs to him that most people never even get the meeting to get shot down in. It never occurs to him that his half-brother got fucked on his inheritance by Yoko. It never occurs to him that the word “imagine” exists because reality is different than the perceptions of someone who will never wonder what it’s like to argue with a landlord or budget for meals or have to work rather than choose to work on your own projects.
He looks like a character from Portlandia
Yoko’s son talking about splitting people up reminds me of something.
Who cares what nepo baby boy thinks?
Is this the son John Lennon cared about, or the one I care about? Important question.
Sean Lennon is a fucking moron, and his music is dogshit!
Your goal in an equitable society should be to remove the existing barriers that prevent certain demographics from participating equally, not giving the privileged a taste of their own medicine.
To me, the focus on DEI should be a strategy with an expiration date, not one that continues indefinitely. That way, 50 years from now, no one’s fighting for Chad, Brad, and Thad to be hired in a black, female-dominated workplace.
Trying to book a spot at the 2024 CPAC I see
I care about his opinion as much as Ja Rule’s
Why is Jason Schwartzman dressing up like Mr. Slave?
Sure he’s a nepo baby but the claypool Lennon delirium fucking slaps
Privileged people should be allowed to voice their opinion of course, but that’s where it ends. It’s just that – an opinion – in no way a fact.
You haven’t been in the body of a black woman trying to work in a male-dominated field (for example). You couldn’t possibly know what others are going through.
Why tf is SEAN LENNON worried about DEI? Is he getting turned down for corporate job interviews?? Is he trying to be an accountant or something? 😂
CRT is now DEI and soon another scary three letter acronym will be used to manipulate people’s fears and biases.
GASP. Creating policies that focus solely on the race and gender of applicants creates a systemic way of thinking that centers around race and gender? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.
Aww, Nepo baby has an opinion. Cute!
He looks like lord farquad
Cool. What does Dweezle Zappa have to say?
And that’s the only time he will use that phrase.
I’m gonna need Ja Rule’s take on this.
Sounds like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Says the prince of nepo-babies
Never go full Rowling.
As a hiring manager with MAGA relatives, I have to say this way more often than I’d like.
The idea that DEI is “racism” or “discrimination” is rooted in the idea that companies are hiring unqualified candidates because of their race (or gender, etc). That these under represented groups _inherently cannot produce a qualified candidate._
We’re big on DEI at my company. We have never once hired an unqualified candidate on a DEI basis. Not once.
What does happen is: I have three candidates who are about equal in qualifications, but one is a white dude, one is a white woman, and one is a black guy.
Qualifications being equal, there are valid business reasons for wanting to hire a “diversity” candidate.
The classic example I like to use is gender based, and I use it a lot because the people I know who are the loudest in opposition to DEI are white women. If your product has any privacy implications _at all_ you are potentially committing professional malpractice if you don’t have women on your team. Women know how your product will be used by abusers and stalkers, and will advocate to mitigate these concerns in ways that the men on your team will never understand.
I used to work for the IT department of a university, back before wifi and ubiquitous laptop usage. Every hardwired device on our network had a static IP with a reverse DNS that indicated its exact physical location. Think like someone sleeps on the right side of Room 206 in Davis Hall? Their IP would resolve to `rm206r.davis.uwhatever.edu`. And if you logged into a computer at the lab, it’d be `lab1seat15.smith.uwhatever.edu` and so on.
It was all Unix systems, too. So your IP would show up in lastlog. And if you sent emails to your classmates, your IP would show up in the headers. It was really trivial to track someone’s movements around campus. Figure out what their patterns were.
So a young woman in our school figured this out and complained. But no one with the power to make changes cared because they were all older white dudes who didn’t understand the threat. They didn’t believe it, or thought it was overblown. Who knows. But when I suggested we change this, I got shot down.
Well, it turned out she complained because a guy she rejected was using this to stalk her. A few weeks after we rejected her complaint, he saw she was logged into a Unix machine at the Smith Hall computer lab, so he went and waited for her to leave and attacked her. We gave him all the info he needed to catch her in a vulnerable place at a vulnerable time.
The next day we changed the naming scheme.
I guarantee you, if there were more women anywhere _near_ the decision making process, it would have been taken more seriously.
So yeah. If I have three equally qualified candidates and one is from an underrepresented group, I’m probably taking that person _because they will bring in a perspective that I’m lacking on my current team._
This plays into many biographical details, as well. Like, if I have a team that’s all ex-Amazon employees and I have three candidates 2 ex-Amazon and 1 ex-Google, I might take the Googler simply for a diverse perspective on how to do things. The list goes on.