Hobbs Kessler loves "dei music". He would never run so quickly if he trained to Dolly Parton.
Kendrick Lamar called out for no White performers in Super Bowl halftime show
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Turn the TV off, turn the TV off🎵
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I Cannot wrote:
Elzio Dennick wrote:
Black sang our National Anthem, Southern U marching band, Black Nathional Anthem with a black choir, two black QB's, black halftime,
Gotta love it.
Your sudden interest in a call for diversity is comically transparent, unconvincingly insincere and only makes you look even more clownish than you did prior to making this ridiculous post.
You certainly don't mind watching a majority black league. ✊🏾
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I Cannot wrote:
Aubrey Graham wrote:
Orange Jesus killed DEI, had he not done so, I'm quite sure the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders would have found their way into the routine. He should have waited just a bit longer.
Oh well...
Next time.
He was picked to be the SuperBowl 'entertainment' 2 months before Trump was elected President.
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Lamar is All About Merit and Authenticity wrote:
This was not DEI. Lamar wanted to tell an unapologetically Black story and for it to be authentic, it required an all Black cast.
If it were DEI, then a smattering of white, Asian, and Latino dancers would have been cast as allies to show that other races fully support his message. He didn’t water it down for mass appeal thus, Kendrick Lamar stayed true to his vision.
White people didn’t belong, didn’t have the skills to appear in it, and rightfully were not placed in it for reasons of tokenism and to satisfy some audience members personal need for inclusion.
You go girl
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Veee Eyee Teee wrote:
since folks have issues, affirmative action was the quota or boost type plans to admit/hire minorities/women to address historic discrimination/segregation. DEI is the office down the hall that runs an annual 1 hour seminar asking you to think about being more sensitive.
it's amusing the right has conflated the 2 into the supposed "DEI" menace. that suggests that the beef started with even being asked for an hour to be nicer and then worked backwards.
that's how triggered the right is.
This is actually not true at all. As I mentioned previously, DEI is a relatively new response to inequality, and it is based on illiberal principles--those that prioritize immutable characteristics over individual merit and integrity. "Equity" is the key word in this acronym. Equity suggests that people should have equal outcomes, which is very different than saying people should have equal opportunities.
The other thing is: you have clearly not spent time in an institution that has incorporated DEI principles. It's not about being nice. It's about hiring a woman in STEM because she's a woman, or a racial minority because they're a racial minority. It's about rejecting highly qualified Asian kids from elite universities because they are deemed to be overrepresented in the study body. In the later case, it's basically punishing people for succeess because they're the wrong skin color.
DEI thought also casts people in permanent roles of oppressor and victim based on these immutable characteristics. Far from meaning that you have to be "nice" to your coworker from whatever underrepresnted group, it means that the most disturbed and unhinged people who happen to be members of that group can abuse you and your colleagues, and when you complain, you get punished because you're the default oppressor regardless of the facts.
DEI means that a bunch of Soviet-style bureaucrats can tell actual qualified professional who to hire and how to think.
DEI is authoritarian. It is not nice.
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bhah wrote:
Aubrey Graham wrote:
But but but, by definition, it was 100% DEI, no?
Was the show good or not so much, or does the answer to that have to wait until we figure out whether or not it was DEI?
Ha! Yes, by definition, it was 100% diverse. Everyone in it was non-white.
I don’t care so much about that. I was more bothered by Samuel L Jackson’s weird take on Uncle Sam, which he played ironically as the forces of conservatism trying to hold down people like Kendrick Lamar. That’s how I read it anyway. That seemed pretty crazy to me, as Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest entertainers in the world, and it’s been decades since any conservative has been in power to “hold him down.”
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Aubrey Graham wrote:
"There's no diversity in the half time show. DEI only goes one direction and this horrible halftime show perfectly represents why DEI needs to die"whatever.💤 from the Irish Star??
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Mikeh33 wrote:
bhah wrote:
But but but, by definition, it was 100% DEI, no?
Was the show good or not so much, or does the answer to that have to wait until we figure out whether or not it was DEI?
Ha! Yes, by definition, it was 100% diverse. Everyone in it was non-white.
I don’t care so much about that. I was more bothered by Samuel L Jackson’s weird take on Uncle Sam, which he played ironically as the forces of conservatism trying to hold down people like Kendrick Lamar. That’s how I read it anyway. That seemed pretty crazy to me, as Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest entertainers in the world, and it’s been decades since any conservative has been in power to “hold him down.”
Poor Kendrick worth 140 million. Whitey is really holding him down
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briguy wrote:
Can’t blame us white boys for that atrocity of a half time show
You hate every halftime show every year. We get it bro, be your own person.
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The Drake wrote:
Mikeh33 wrote:
Ha! Yes, by definition, it was 100% diverse. Everyone in it was non-white.
I don’t care so much about that. I was more bothered by Samuel L Jackson’s weird take on Uncle Sam, which he played ironically as the forces of conservatism trying to hold down people like Kendrick Lamar. That’s how I read it anyway. That seemed pretty crazy to me, as Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest entertainers in the world, and it’s been decades since any conservative has been in power to “hold him down.”
Poor Kendrick worth 140 million. Whitey is really holding him down
Yea I agree. It’s just delusional in todays world. Kendrick Lamar and those like him have won. You can say and do almost anything in the name of art. No one is holding him back, especially not “white America.”
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The Super Bowl halftime show was always a kind of ideological device to express certain ideas to the country, originally integration and national unity in the face of the actual political strife of the times. Even the first Super Bowl in 1967 featured an integrated halftime show with the University of Arizona and Grambling State marching bands, plus two guys flying in jet packs. You can't tell the race of most of the band members but presumably most if not all of Arizona's band was white or maybe Latino and Grambling State is an HBCU. The bands form constantly shifting symbolic shapes throughout and there's some bizarre scene of a guy in a white costume pretending to kill a bunch of people (a historical reenactment of something? I was watching without the sound), but the theme is expressed by the later image of the band forming a picture of the United States of America and then two people with interlocking hands, emphasizing our unity and our union. So, that's a different way of speaking to our differences from the beginning of the Super Bowl. I was not fond of the later way of doing it via Up With People, which was garbage, nor of the use of the show to get one man's revenge against another rapper, with lyrics and concepts unacceptable for children's ears. Now that is one thing Kendrick Lamar has in common with Trump.20
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under a bridge wrote:
Orange Man Good wrote:
I'm only a wanker when my wife outta town. I was not "triggered" at all and could care less what kind of garbage is broadcasted at the Superbowl. Twas simply pointing out the blatant reality that there would be masses in uproar if the tables were turned and there were not any black folks in the halftime show. Minneapolis and Saint Louis would probably be burning to the ground right now. I haven't watched football nor any Superbowl halftime shows since 2020 when they were pumping in fake crowd noise to the games and Drew Brees was shamed into apologizing for his contributions to the systematic racism against all the millionaire black players in the NFL.
You have to concoct fairly tales to try to make your point when reality doesn’t make it for you.
You have to woke to feel better about yourself, because reality doesn’t do it for you.
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Orange Man Gooder wrote:
under a bridge wrote:
You have to concoct fairly tales to try to make your point when reality doesn’t make it for you.
You have to woke to feel better about yourself, because reality doesn’t do it for you.
Lol nice sentence there.
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GD wrote:
Veee Eyee Teee wrote:
since folks have issues, affirmative action was the quota or boost type plans to admit/hire minorities/women to address historic discrimination/segregation. DEI is the office down the hall that runs an annual 1 hour seminar asking you to think about being more sensitive.
it's amusing the right has conflated the 2 into the supposed "DEI" menace. that suggests that the beef started with even being asked for an hour to be nicer and then worked backwards.
that's how triggered the right is.
This is actually not true at all. As I mentioned previously, DEI is a relatively new response to inequality, and it is based on illiberal principles--those that prioritize immutable characteristics over individual merit and integrity. "Equity" is the key word in this acronym. Equity suggests that people should have equal outcomes, which is very different than saying people should have equal opportunities.
The other thing is: you have clearly not spent time in an institution that has incorporated DEI principles. It's not about being nice. It's about hiring a woman in STEM because she's a woman, or a racial minority because they're a racial minority. It's about rejecting highly qualified Asian kids from elite universities because they are deemed to be overrepresented in the study body. In the later case, it's basically punishing people for succeess because they're the wrong skin color.
DEI thought also casts people in permanent roles of oppressor and victim based on these immutable characteristics. Far from meaning that you have to be "nice" to your coworker from whatever underrepresnted group, it means that the most disturbed and unhinged people who happen to be members of that group can abuse you and your colleagues, and when you complain, you get punished because you're the default oppressor regardless of the facts.
DEI means that a bunch of Soviet-style bureaucrats can tell actual qualified professional who to hire and how to think.
DEI is authoritarian. It is not nice.
An excellent overview of DEI, and what it is at a practical level. Well said.
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If we've learned anything of the last few years, it's that conservatives are just as snowflakey as liberals. Turns out neither political party has a monopoly on preachy nonsense.
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Aubrey Graham wrote:
"There's no diversity in the half time show. DEI only goes one direction and this horrible halftime show perfectly represents why DEI needs to die"LOL!
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Apple Music USA Top 100
The top 7 most played songs are all from Kendrick Lamar. It's never happened before.
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White grievance: Same old song and dance
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