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Direct link to the book (without the backref):
I don’t spot the difference between this and how most modern day corporations are operated:
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
My company has been fighting fascism this whole time. Wow!
“To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
So is this why DEI exists?
DEI exists because racists often have hiring power. It doesn’t force the hiring of the unqualified, it supports the qualified from not being discriminated against.
Nice “centrism” btw.
So riddle me this, why is it hard to believe that DEI type policies could be plot by some organization or country against the U.S. when there’s literally a field manual which says that such policies should be used against “fascists”. People on Lemmy call the U.S. imperialist all the time.
The flaw in your argument is the false equivalency between minorities (people the DEI programs are there to support) and “inefficient workers”.
Are straight white dudes exempt from ever being considered inefficient? That’s silly.
No, I didn’t say minorities, you’re assuming that. I was pointing out the part in the text which says, “fight fascists by creating bureaucracy”. There are lots of articles already which point out that DEI is for all identities, not just POC.
I didn’t say POC anywhere in my comment.
These identities are minority identities. Women, POC, LGBT+ communities are all considered minorities. There are legitimate reasons for DEI, including increasing efficiency in workplaces, which doesn’t line up here, because in this doc the increase in bureaucracy is for the purpose of decreasing efficiency.
Some studies I’d like to cite regarding my claim on Diversity practices increasing efficiency:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30765101/
Results: Most of the sixteen reviews matching inclusion criteria demonstrated positive associations between diversity, quality and financial performance. Healthcare studies showed patients generally fare better when care was provided by more diverse teams. Professional skills-focused studies generally find improvements to innovation, team communications and improved risk assessment. Financial performance also improved with increased diversity. A diversity-friendly environment was often identified as a key to avoiding frictions that come with change.
https://dinastipub.org/DIJDBM/article/download/2986/1924/12080 (This one is a PDF) CONCLUSION This study shows that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have a significant positive impact on employee performance.
I also found this article from Harvard that explored practices that don’t increase efficiency, however, when they don’t work, the reason is usually unconscious bias and racism:
https://hbr.org/2024/06/research-the-most-common-dei-practices-actually-undermine-diversity “These methods often exacerbate existing biases and fail to address systemic barriers, perpetuating organizational inequities. For example, diversity and harassment training programs frequently focus on blame, legal consequences, and unconscious bias. Employees are often told they are biased, and managers are informed that they will be held accountable if employees are accused of discrimination. This is counterproductive because employees tend to react with resistance and anger to these messages, inadvertently increasing discriminatory behavior.”
The reason I am including this is that even if the end goal was to decrease efficiency, it would have to be the goal of management, not the regulatory bodies, because management are the ones choosing these methods, and if it were management’s goal to decrease efficiency, they would be able to do this without DEI requirements.
My overarching point here is, while I understand your skepticism on DEI practices, there are much simpler and cheaper ways to perform the methods in the original post, making DEI an extremely unlikely culprit.
There is more merit to people in a meritocracy than grades alone.
Do you not believe in getting opportunity? Can you recall a few times people took a chance on you? What if nobody ever did?
Please stop. I literally made this thread a while back
https://lemmy.world/post/15392191
I believe in people getting opportunities. What I don’t like are thought police, or thought correction officers.
Left authoritarianism is still authoritarianism.
I also don’t take it for granted that someone talking about “empathy” or “compassion” necessarily doesn’t have ulterior motives.
DEI only irks people who are racists. For everyone else, it’s just a hiring process.
DEI is for all identities, not just POC. Creating more process is part of the the CIA field manual for fighting fascists, hence the question, are more bureaucratic jobs being created in some misguided attempt to “fight US imperialism”?
No, I won’t. Considering what you wrote in your linked post, why are you asking such strange questions?
Thought police? Yet you’re ok with being told not to touch/compliment women’s butts at work??
I won’t stop because you’re hilariously inept 🤣
I am asking these questions because we already have EO laws and ADA policies. We also have anti-harassment policies. What does DEI add that’s new other than create more bureaucratic jobs?
From my perspective, DEI just creates divisions between groups by splitting people into distinct identities.
- “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
- “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
- “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
- “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
- “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
- “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
- “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
- “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
- “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
But … but we’re already doing every single one of them 🥺
Isn’t this like the whole SCRUM framework
So, civ v was right, the only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy, is its inefficiency.
This will be declared a terrorist document create by a evil government as soon as trump hears about it. Its not like he can read well enough understand it.
Some speculate that he cannot read at all. I do not think this is the case, as it is very difficult to finish university without some kind of reading and writing (even with grades as horrific as his).
But I strongly believe that Trump is dyslexic. Which would explain his aversion to reading at all costs and his desire to have things done in picture form and not written form. I am not the only one who suspects this.
It’s not at all difficult to finish university without reading or writing, it’s just more expensive.
You can purchase essays and tutoring. The little income I do get right now is helping get the rich and illiterate through college.
I did have a hustle in college where I did homework for some guys (they were not rich. They were just lazy). But my main concern isn’t about getting essays or some other projects done. It is about sitting through exams. How would he have finished an exam while being functionally illiterate? The only way it could be done is that he bribed someone to bring him a copy of the exam beforehand so he can have someone tell him what to do for what part.
But if that was the case, his grades wouldn’t be as utter shit as they were. I know if I had an advance copy of an exam, no matter how tough it was, I would have at least gotten a B or B+.
I know if I had an advance copy of an exam, no matter how tough it was, I would have at least gotten a B or B+.
This is one of those benefits of joining a fraternity/sorority. Many do keep collections of old exams, homework assignments, etc. Imagine how that factors with the type of fraternities the uber wealthy join too.
Another strategy is getting accommodations. With money, you can get the kind of diagnoses and paper work to get around a lot. This is not at all to attack the legitimacy of college accommodations - I’ve worked with many who deserved them, and in some ways I was able to access some myself. I’ve also worked with people who did pay for a diagnosis and list of accommodations. This is more of a rich people taking advantage of a system that is mostly inaccessible to poorer people.
Another aspect is “track system.” Eg, my ex husband came from serious money, went to a high school where there was a track for those who wanted to learn, and for those whose parents just wanted them in a nice school with other rich kids. (He would freely admit to switching to the “rich kid” track because he was too lazy to write essays. That continued in college - he used the strategy of having me do it.)
I think this continues in colleges, especially the more expensive privates/Ivys/and even local colleges, in certain major programs. People joke about Business majors, but yeah… There’s an element of institutional knowledge here that can also go with the frats/sororities - who lets you take home the tests, who uses multiple choice, etc…
Always very frustrating to me - I got kicked out of college a couple times trying to get through STEM/engineering while working multiple jobs and pimping myself out on Craigslist. Knowledge is a candle, and lighting others does not extinguish one’s own flame, but damn if don’t have some resentments some times.
Report imaginary spies
Sounds like a good way to get your buddy Bob taken out and shot.
When fascists starts suspecting everyone as spies, good people die.
“Report imaginary spies” = bad.
“Let other people’s children be homeless and starve for your cause” = good.
You have some fucked up priorities.
The priority is the end goal of undermining the regime
Hell yeah! This is great! I’m glad I’m not the only one sharing it around to friends and neighbors. True resistance is not the flashy stuff; it’s a whole of society approach to stop fascists in their tracks. True resistance is the sum total of small acts to inconvenience and impede a fascist.
The thing is that these techniques were intended to be used in hostile opponent countries, not your own.
“Shut down America” isn’t a goal any American should have - instead, work to make a positive difference.
Fam, America IS the “hostile opponent country” now. Thats why this is going viral
Ignore this document. It’s a plant.
It suggests filing metal containers that contain gasoline. They just want to see who shows up in ERs or local police dept with specific injuries or vandalism charges.
Edit: the anarchist cookbook that circulated in the 90s and 2000s was a false flag that was intended to remove fingers, hands, and entire faces. It was a funded attempt to get ‘smart people’ to blow their hands off. The doc posted by OP has the same hallmark copy-paste from reputable sources mixed with advice from chaos agents.
What’s the chemistry there?
Grinding metal can create large voltage potentials which can create arcs which can ignite gasoline vapor which can cause an explosion.
More to the point, i’m commenting on semi competent text followed by suicide advice. I stopped reading to make my previous post. I’ll pick back up to see if there are any more obvious points.
What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?
People seriously need to chill the fuck out with the Nazi comparisons.
Trump won popular vote, that’s literally a democracy.
I wish the Republicans had more class in dealing with political opponents, or in getting their point across about some issues, but they don’t. Their lack of finesse just makes people overreact. These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
Ah, yes. Truly a classic. “The people angry about the blanket pardoning of all the violent insurrectionists are just as bad as the violent insurrectionists!”
Lol.
Good point, I should clarify that’s not what I was saying. I was saying that it reminds me of the same online reactions prior to it happening.
