My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit.
This is an interesting and encouraging article.
Here's the intro:
By now there are enough “cancel culture” stories to fill volumes. After my own story about standing up to a woke mob—and succeeding—went viral on Twitter, I decided to speak out, because I am convinced that Americans need more encouraging stories about standing up to cancel culture, and information on how they can do it themselves.
In order to withstand attacks, you’ll need to be armed with an understanding of the ideas in play, and the courage to stand up to bullies. I hope my story can help give you both.
Here's the intro:
By now there are enough “cancel culture” stories to fill volumes. After my own story about standing up to a woke mob—and succeeding—went viral on Twitter, I decided to speak out, because I am convinced that Americans need more encouraging stories about standing up to cancel culture, and information on how they can do it themselves.
In order to withstand attacks, you’ll need to be armed with an understanding of the ideas in play, and the courage to stand up to bullies. I hope my story can help give you both.
The author of this piece states: "... critical social justice is an anti-objectivity ideology: One of its fundamental assertions is that there are no objective truths, only 'positional' truths."
Rand recognized the anti-objective scientist in Galt's radio speech: "Do you hear me, Dr. Robert Stadler?"
When the group who stood in agreement with the complaints reached its final size, my next words would have been:
"Thank you all for your service, you may now leave the building. Your final paychecks will be mailed, and your personal belongings will be shipped to your homes. Security, please escort these people out."
An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible. The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed."
There's that "softening" that Cherryl Taggart described to Dagny.
One fine day midway through my career, a white inmate asked me to let him do some silly Schiff I can't remember. What I do very clearly remember is that white inmate saying I let black inmates do whatever the hell he was talking about. I recall saying, "That's a first" before walking on.
Toward the end of my career during a shift briefing, a black sergeant outlined some things he wanted us to do that day. A black officer openly complained about being a slave. To that, the black sergeant irately said, "There are no slaves!" The black officer shut up.
About three months ago a white neighbor who is a supervisor at Home Depot complained about black workers who accused him about being a racist.
I told him the story about the black sergeant who should have added "You can always quit." Maybe he didn't due to an employee shortage.
Did I understand that correctly?
The employees who were truly committed to helping victims of trauma eventually saw the error of their ways with the critical theory they'd been taught in school, since helping the victims required objective evidence of when trauma had occurred, and what treatments would work to heal it. They stayed with the business, while the irrational ones who insisted on staying "woke" and using nebulous definitions of "harm" ("oppression," etc.) left.
doesn't actually require any libertarian goals, nor any dedication to principles of individual liberty and free markets, nor any rational thought.
CRT is simple. It's anti-white racism being used to divide people and concentrate leftist power. That is the only logic involved.
The perpetrators think they can rape innocent whites. They will say anything, repeat any lie in order to gain power over others.
If we let them do so we will be helping to destroy the country that is the closest one to individual freedom in human history.
We will be handing all human liberty back to neo-monarchists whose objective is serfdom for everyone except those they choose to be oppressors.
the Dunning-Kruger effect (Bongino Mentions it).
These idiots think they can do anything.
I had a cab driver friend tell me he could be president of Heinz because they guy makes no decisions.
So, I challenged him. I asked this question:
"You've wasted 13 years and countless MILLION of dollars on plastics research to make a plastic ketchup bottle that the acid from the tomatoes does not destroy and dis-flavor your product destroying the shelf-life... This year, you have to decide, do you abandon it? Why?"
He was stunned, and this was JUST BEFORE Plastic Ketchup bottles (due to an internal teflon-like coating that's clear) was picked as the solution. But I pushed harder. Assume 20 million bottles of ketchup are currently shipped in glass bottles with metal lids. What's the fuel cost savings of switching to plastic? What's the material and weight savings? What are the bottling changes (upside down caps?) that can come into play?...
He told me the CEO would have people to answer those questions. And I asked him DIRECTLY... How many of them would you have thought of, honestly? See, the CEO doesn't have the job of making a LOT of decisions, he has the job of asking the right questions, and processing a shit-ton of information relative to his business.
Then I looked at him, and said, "You've driven a cab for 10 years now. Year over year, are you increasing your net income through applying all of this great insight you must have gained? Above and beyond inflation?" His response was typical "I make the same now as before, but I work less hard for it, I don't want to make $1 more than I need to, I just want enough to get by!"
LOL... Would you want a CEO who did not want to make more money for the same efforts? Nahh...