There are threads to discuss those things. If you want to discuss them rather than this, go post there, but please don’t threadshit here.
Nice dodge. Since that’s the question you asked in the OP, I don’t see how it’s off-topic.
You have poisoned the well here. Why does this person who you’ve never heard of represent the Democratic party or the DNC? It’s a common tactic used by your side, to treat individuals on the other side as representatives of the whole group. You should cut it out, because it’s divisive and destructive. If your arguments were sound, you wouldn’t need to pretend that a middle manager of an I.T. sub-department who said something ridiculously bigoted actually represents Democrats in general, and you wouldn’t pretend that the DNC hasn’t already publicly denounced her statements.
Here’s a question for you. If it turns out that this person ends up being fired for her statements, will you take back what you said above, and admit that it’s not evidence that the DNC is racist or bigoted?
No.
Yes, but not in the way you’re implying.
No. We’re exhausted. Work has a funny way of doing that to people.
I think she should be reprimanded, and punished, up to and including termination. First, though, I’d try to figure out the motivation for such a request. Is this an isolated incident and a bad choice of words? Is it indicative of a particular bias of hers?
A poor choice of words can be easily rectified, and not grounds for termination. We all mispeak sometimes. And things sometimes sound better in our heads than when we attempt to articulate them.
The DNC has taken the right first step, saying that her words are not representative of the organization.
Having someone in the DNC who is an idiot is about as rare as having someone in the RNC who isn’t. I’ll gladly accept the fallout of having someone in my party drummed out of the national committee if I get to see the leader of your party led out of the White House in handcuffs.
It does seem a stupid piece of political incompetence. I don’t know about usual hiring practices in the US, but over here it’s quite common to see adverts offering warm words about diversity and deliberately setting out to encourage the under-represented (however defined) to apply, and to make sure adverts appear in a range of outlets to focus on the under-represented groups, or in other words, to present it positively rather than negatively, which you’d have thought a basic skill in someone working for a political organisation.
What do I think? Well, God knows I’m not a religious man, but what I think is of a lesson I remember from Sunday School back in the early eighties, turns out to be Matthew 7:3-5.
[Please understand that while I share the sentiment, I don’t countenance Jesus’s namecalling, certainly not outside of the Pit; I left it in there not to endorse it but so as not to butcher the quote]
That’s okay. The important thing is to keep practicing daily, and with time your skills are bound to improve.
When a no name Dem does something bad it means all Dems are bad. When the GOP president of the United States praises Nazis it means you’re a racist for noticing.
Please do try to keep up.
As several have pointed out, since this is exactly the question you ask in the OP, considering it off-topic is pretty funny, in a sad kind of way.
Gotta admit. Changing text in quote tags is against the rules. Changing JESUS’ quote has got to be some sort of special. And I don’t yet have the lightning bolt keyboard upgrade.
Do you think he has time what with all the investigating he has to do of Hillary? Huh???
According toTHISarticle, their were some jobs opening up at DNC headquarters and the recruiter specifically asked that the job posting NOT be sent to straight, white, cisgender men because they “are the majority”.
Well I’m a straight, white, cisgender male so I couldn’t qualify. And so are many others on this site.
Can you support a party where you are told “Do not apply”?
Enormous concern already in this thread.
Yeah, that sure is a shame. I assume you similarly blame other entire organizations for the actions of one of its members?
I concur that the woman should be terminated. Fortunately— and much more importantly— I’ve just gotten word that cisgender straight white males are not, as was erroneously reported, in danger of being underrepresented, in the DNC or pretty much anywhere else.
I apologize to anyone who may have expected knee-jerk, partisan wagon-circling and excuse-making as a response, and is perplexed and even a bit disappointed by its absence, based on a misguided belief that everybody does it in equal measure.
This seems odd. I’ve seen like maybe dozens of posts from you over the years arguing strenuously against bringing up hypocrisy in an argument, saying it’s just an ad hominem that does nothing to address the argument etc. etc.
Are you renouncing all that now?
I’ve long felt that the phrase “*just *asking questions” is unfair, as it fails to recognize the effort required, including the need to be quick on one’s feet.
So aside from some questioning the legitimacy of this (admittedly poorly sourced, at least at first) story, the unanimous consensus here is that you’re not an outlier; nobody here on the left is defending this woman. Are you disappointed in our reasonable and consistent response?
I’m going to combine this with the one in Elections.