Corporate America and modern internet culture.

[Ingomike]

I'll give you my view from inside a fairly large corporation.

This stuff is coming from HR and probably marketing. HR departments have been pushing this stuff for years. The leaders go to conferences where they hear about how this needs to be done and taught. They then come back and tell the CEO they need to do this, and they are off to the races. Inclusion, micro aggressions, yada yada yada...

I am guessing there is a similar dynamic going on in Marketing. As the largest corporations start, it gets easier for the next tier of corporations marketing departments to convince their management that they need to follow suit.

It isn't coming from young employees. Unless it is a tech company, most of the workforce is probably not that young to begin with.

Agree! HR is a department that creates nothing...

 

[NKBJ]

And HR brings back to their corporate home what they've been told by __(fill in the blank)__.

 

[NKBJ]

I'll give you my view from inside a fairly large corporation.

This stuff is coming from HR and probably marketing. HR departments have been pushing this stuff for years. The leaders go to conferences where they hear about how this needs to be done and taught. They then come back and tell the CEO they need to do this, and they are off to the races. Inclusion, micro aggressions, yada yada yada...

I am guessing there is a similar dynamic going on in Marketing. As the largest corporations start, it gets easier for the next tier of corporations marketing departments to convince their management that they need to follow suit.

It isn't coming from young employees. Unless it is a tech company, most of the workforce is probably not that young to begin with.

Yes, there is indeed a point of dissemination that in turn is captured.

 

[Magyars]

Leftist tend to protest, sometimes violently to get what they want.
Conservatives are more independent minded and tend to not protest or complain.......we ( the right ) should be voting more by our purchases.

 

[KLB]

Leftist tend to protest, sometimes violently to get what they want.
Conservatives are more independent minded and tend to not protest or complain.......we ( the right ) should be voting more by our purchases.

That has actually flipped in the last 20 years or so. It used to be the conservatives that wanted to censor, now it is the "liberals".

 

[Twangbanger]

Corporations are, by definition, risk-averse. They have legal departments, ethics codes, and insurance all in place as mechanisms to mitigate risk. You are trying to prevent dollars going out the door for avoidable reasons.

SJW outrage is one more business risk added onto the pile.

You implement "values statements," policies, and training and communication as forms of risk-mitigation, to protect yourself against lawsuits alleging the company was negligent and allowed some kind of "environment" to exist.

Then, (here's the tricky part): since your CEO / Pres / VP / Officer corps are mostly (<<drumroll>>) white and male , and you're thus vulnerable to claims of hypocrisy, you go hire an "articulate" African American woman pretty enough to be an underwear model to a $350k position with one secretary reporting to her, as your VP of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Her job is to make the upper tier of "white stiffs" look good. She's there as a personal human credibility token, to convince the rest of the world these yack-a-mouth stiffs really do care about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And it's understood they will believe her, because her Personal Integrity Would Never Allow Her to Take This Position if she weren't convinced the company's goals and efforts were genuine. In exchange for this herculean lift of personal credibility, she draws the unfortunate task of going in front of adverse audiences** and serving as the human bullet shield who deflects criticism of the company's culture, and lays down a barrage of covering return fire by regaling them with all the great measures the company is taking.

(** "adverse audiences," in addition to investors, customers, and .Gov officials, could be understood to include the organization's own employees)

 

[KLB]

Corporations are, by definition, risk-averse. They have legal departments, ethics codes, and insurance all in place as mechanisms to mitigate risk. You are trying to prevent dollars going out the door for avoidable reasons.

SJW outrage is one more business risk added onto the pile.

You implement "values statements," policies, and training and communication as forms of risk-mitigation, to protect yourself against lawsuits alleging the company was negligent and allowed some kind of "environment" to exist.

Then, (here's the tricky part): since your CEO / Pres / VP / Officer corps are mostly (<<drumroll>>) white and male , and you're thus vulnerable to claims of hypocrisy, you go hire an "articulate" African American woman pretty enough to be an underwear model to a $350k position with one secretary reporting to her, as your VP of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Her job is to make the upper tier of "white stiffs" look good. She's there as a personal human credibility token, to convince the rest of the world these yack-a-mouth stiffs really do care about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And it's understood they will believe her, because her Personal Integrity Would Never Allow Her to Take This Position if she weren't convinced the company's goals and efforts were genuine. In exchange for this herculean lift of personal credibility, she draws the unfortunate task of going in front of adverse audiences** and serving as the human bullet shield who deflects criticism of the company's culture, and lays down a barrage of covering return fire by regaling them with all the great measures the company is taking.

(** "adverse audiences," in addition to investors, customers, and .Gov officials, could be understood to include the organization's own employees)

That may be in some companies, but this has been going on a lot longer than most people realize. Diversity training is nothing new, it has just been slowly evolving.