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It’s bad enough that the company self-cancels the books.

But now we also can’t even have a secondary market for what already exists.

People have severely underestimated the influence these woke people have.

In my company, we receive forms from clients asking us to survey our employees for their sexual preferences and racial categories, essentially based on the same nomenclature used in nazi Germany.

It is completely bizarre and abhorrent.

At least this particular piece of poison is thus far resisted in Sweden.

All of this is connected and needs to stop. It starts with each and everyone of us no longer “just going along” with each new book burning and each new forbidden word they introduce.

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> In my company, we receive forms from clients asking us to survey our employees for their sexual preferences and racial categories

Wait, what? Is this legal?

This is common[0] in the legal industry; most such agreements aren't public.

[0] https://www.diversitylab.com/knowledge-sharing/clients-push-...

I don’t think so. And of course we don’t conduct these surveys. But they are still requested from primarily US clients.

I sat in class while we learnt a carol which included the lines 'even if he's black sir'. It sucked. Not just offensive. To kill a mockingbird is a great book but not suitable for kids in it's current form but I don't think it should be rewritten. This isn't woke, it's decency and kindness.

You can't just go out there and delete history, no matter how bad it was, because you know what happens when you do that? You will end up repeating the past mistakes. The book shows how society was back then, you can't just all of a sudden decide that it didn't exist and somehow put kids in a bubble and hide our past from them.

It isn't about deleting history, it's about not teaching the same thing as was taught in the past. Normalisation of the depiction of racist serotypes in books & media normalises racism. It's subtle but in conversations I've had with PoC, they point out all these subtlies that they notice but were an invisible part of my conditioning growing up.

The history still exists, for when it's appropriate to study the history of race relations, but if you're teaching pre-school & primary school children to read you don't need to do so with images of black people dressed as tribesmen which normalise racist depictions of those people.

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