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PC proliferation on college campuses (formerly UNC students...)

TownieDeac said:
Nothing will change with the national media after this election. We'd so much rather be entertained than informed. People whose biases are questioned/checked by a certain source can always go elsewhere.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male employees, lawsuit charges
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A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Marissa Mayer of leading a campaign to purge male employees.

“Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees,” said the suit by Scott Ard filed this week in federal district court in San Jose.

Ard, who worked for Yahoo for 3 ½ years until January 2015, is now editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal. His lawsuit also claims that Yahoo illegally fired large numbers of workers ousted under a performance-rating system imposed by Mayer. That allegation was not tied to gender.

Yahoo spokeswoman Carolyn Clark said Yahoo couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but she defended the company’s performance-review process, which she said was guided by “fairness.”

“Our performance-review process was developed to allow employees at all levels of the company to receive meaningful, regular and actionable feedback from others,” Clark said. “We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company, as well as for low performers to be transitioned out.”

In addition to Mayer, two other female executives — Kathy Savitt, former chief marketing officer, and Megan Liberman, editor-in-chief of Yahoo News, identified in the lawsuit as Yahoo’s vice president of news at the time — are accused in the lawsuit of discriminating on the basis of gender.

“When Savitt began at Yahoo the top managers reporting to her … including the chief editors of the verticals and magazines, were less than 20 percent female. Within a year and a half those top managers were more than 80 percent female,” the lawsuit said. “Savitt has publicly expressed support for increasing the number of women in media and has intentionally hired and promoted women because of their gender, while terminating, demoting or laying off male employees because of their gender.

“Of the approximately 16 senior-level editorial employees hired or promoted by Savitt … in approximately an 18-month period, 14 of them, or 87 percent, were female,” the lawsuit said.

Ard, hired at Yahoo in 2011, said in the suit that until Savitt and Liberman took over management of the firm’s media section in early 2014, he had received performance reviews and stock options reflecting “fully satisfactory” work. But in June 2014, Liberman told him that his role as head of editorial programming for Yahoo’s home page was being given to a woman Liberman had recently hired, the suit said.

Then in January 2015, during a performance review phone call, Liberman told Ard he was fired, effective that day, because “his performance was not satisfactory.”

“Liberman stated that she was terminating (Ard) because she had not received a requested breakdown of (his) duties. (Ard) had already provided that very information as requested, however, and reminded Liberman that he had done so,” the lawsuit said. “Liberman’s excuse for terminating (Ard) was a pretext.”

Right after the call, Ard requested a copy of his performance review and said he wanted to appeal his firing, the suit said. “Both requests were denied and (Ard) was ordered to turn in his laptop and depart the premises immediately.”

Ard’s suit also takes aim at the performance-review process he said Mayer imposed. The process allowed high-level managers to arbitrarily change scores of employees they had no contact with, and it “permitted and encouraged discrimination based on gender or any other personal bias held by management.”

Liberman, he said, once “unilaterally lowered” the scores of three men whose performance Ard had evaluated, while she maintained the scores of two women.

Yahoo’s use of this review system to fire many workers individually in a short time period broke the U.S. and California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) acts, which mandate advance notification of mass layoffs, the suit alleged. “Marissa Mayer became CEO on a wave of optimism and then engaged in a sleight of hand to terminate large numbers of employees without announcing a single layoff,” the suit said.

Yahoo’s diversity reports indicate that the percentage of women in leadership positions at the company rose slightly to 24 percent in 2015 from 23 percent in 2014.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/06/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-led-illegal-purge-of-male-employees-lawsuit-charges/
 
Ouch, conservatives. Who is suppressing speech now? Talk about safe spaces...:

"The furor over constitutional rights at East Carolina University started on Oct. 1, when 19 members of the university’s marching band kneeled as the national anthem was being played during a football game. Fans responded by booing and spitting at the band members, who had to have a police escort when they left the game, according to the News & Observer. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) also weighed in, calling the protest “extremely inappropriate.”

“They have every right to express their First Amendment rights outside the stadium,” but not on campus, McCrory said, the News & Observer reported."

(From article in the post today; don't have a link)
 
Well, Mayer was a management failure, that's in the books, I just hate that she got very rich being sexist, self indulgent and incompetent.
 
Australian students to be taught about 'male privilege'
A state in Australia has launched an education programme designed to smash gender stereotypes and tackle the root causes of domestic violence.

The "respectful relationship" curriculum will be mandatory in all schools in Victoria from next year.

Students will explore issues around social inequality, gender-based violence and male privilege.

However, a report on a 2015 pilot trial accused it of presenting all men as "bad" and all women as "victims".

Pay inequality, anger management, sexual orientation and the dangers of pornography will be among the topics explored by students in the programme, costing A$21.8m (£13.5m; $16.5m).

Primary school students will be exposed to images of both boys and girls doing household chores, playing sport and working as firefighters and receptionists.

The material includes statements including "girls can play football, can be doctors and can be strong" and "boys can cry when they are hurt, can be gentle, can be nurses and can mind babies".

In high school, students will be taught the meaning of terms including pansexual, cisgender and transsexual and the concept of male privilege.

A guide for the Year 7 and 8 curriculum states: "Being born a male, you have advantages - such as being overly represented in the public sphere - and this will be true whether you personally approve or think you are entitled to this privilege."

It describes privilege as "automatic, unearned benefits bestowed upon dominant groups" based on "gender, sexuality, race or socio-economic class".

Year 11 and 12 students are introduced to the concept of "hegemonic masculinity" which "requires boys and men to be heterosexual, tough, athletic and emotionless, and encourages the control and dominance of men over women".

Breaking the cycle

Some critics have suggested that although more needs to be done to protect the female victims of domestic violence, the programme lacks objectivity and nuance.

Jeremy Sammut, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, a libertarian think tank, told The Australian newspaper that it amounted to "taxpayer-funded indoctrination" of children.

"The idea behind this programme - that all men are latent abusers by nature of the 'discourse' - is an idea that only cloistered feminist academics could love," Dr Sammut said.

"A lot of evidence suggests that like child abuse, domestic violence is a by-product of social dysfunction: welfare, drugs, family breakdown."

The royal commission that recommended education as the key measure for preventing future family violence found that 25% of victims of family violence are men. Critics argue that point is often overlooked.

Education Minister James Merlino has said education is the key to ending the "vicious cycle" of family violence.

"This is about teaching our kids to treat everyone with respect and dignity so we can start the cultural change we need in our society to end the scourge of family violence," he said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37640353
 
University of Michigan holds racially separate forums, white reporter gets kicked out:
Last week the University of Michigan held “diversity” forums sponsored by the Residential College (RC), but some were irked that the events were separated by race — one was for people of color, the other “open to all.”

Because it was geared “to create an open dialogue geared specifically to all people of color involved in the program,” a reporter from The Michigan Daily was asked to leave the forum for non-white students.

The reporter was permitted to attend the other event.

Senior Admissions and Recruitment Coordinator Logan Corey defended the racial separation, saying it was “to ensure that students and faculty of color felt safe raising concerns and sitting in solidarity with other people of color, given the current climate on campus.”

Director of Residential College Jonathan Wells added that the separate events were appropriate because it gave “people of color a space to talk without feeling ‘watched.’”

From the Michigan Daily piece:

LSA and RC junior Darian Razdar, who attended both town halls and was one of many students to participate in the forum, said he recognized the potential for white students to feel discluded from the forum for people of color only, but added both forums were productive, emphasizing that this opportunity for students of color is rare in a mostly-white culture like at the University.

“I think for white students who feel somehow (upset) by us having a first town hall for students and staff of color, I’d say look at yourself, think about your place and your people’s histories,” Razdar said. “You can seek out white spaces, and those can be productive, as long as you think about how you can leverage your privilege that you’ve been raised with.”

During the townhalls, Razdar noted how he felt he had a different college experience due to his parents being immigrants and his background.

Though many voiced anger at the RC for its lack of diversity and inclusion during student speak-outs, Razdar said he disagreed and called the event indicative of RC efforts to improve inclusion. Instead, he said it was more of a call to action for the University’s overarching DEI plan.

Razdar also defended the ouster of the Michigan Daily reporter saying “they [sic] did not identify as a person of color. If the Daily had sent one they [sic] would have been welcome to join.”

One of the complaints at the people of color-only forum was that the school’s goal of “creating a comfortable community within the larger University” is contradicted by things like an “overemphasis on learning colonized languages” — Spanish, French, and German. They want “culturally relevant” languages … like Swahili.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29536/
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
University of Florida to Offer Counseling for Students Offended by Halloween Costumes

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/21/university-florida-offer-counseling-students-offended-halloween-costumes/

This explains so, so much about many of the younger posters on this board.
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As a Halloween counselor, I'm all for this. You wouldn't believe the emotional damage caused by this "holiday"... or maybe you choose not to believe. It says much more about the older posters on this board that likely are walking around with minor/latent PTSD from their untreated childhood experiences.
 
I'd like to volunteer as a Halloween counselor and laugh at the distressed dumbasses calling in cause they were triggered by some guy in a Trump mask.
 
Halloween is for children. Grownups should act their age and not try to appropriate a children's holiday by dressing in Halloween costumes. It's offensive. When you act so juvenile, it's a small wonder you need counselors.
 
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