Racism in America

https://voxday.net/2022/02/02/diversity-time-bombs/

Couldn't feel happier to see such an evil organization get its comeuppance. But the NFL's evil is the same kind of banal evil that the rest of corporate, and in fact, elitist "America" has all embraced. Is there a public corporation anywhere that rejects this nonsense? Maybe Cabela's/Bass Pro Shops. 

Maybe.

There used to be a bit of wisdom in the Anglo-Saxon world; that if you want the Danes (Vikings) to leave you alone, you have to stop paying Danegeld. Once the Danes know that all they have to do is show up and rattle their swords at you a bit to get free money from you, then they'll show up as often as they think they can get away with it and rattle their swords at you for free money.

You wanna stop hearing about race and racism in America? Here's a clue. It is a hoax. But you'll never stop hearing about it until we stop paying blackgeld, browngeld, pinkgeld, and all of the other gelds that we pay because we're either too lazy, too cowardly, too corrupt, or too naive to just not pay it.

Every objective, empirical analysis proves that racism and sexism don't exist. In fact, the opposite is true. White guys are the nicest, on average, that have ever lived in the history of humanity. We bend over backwards to give everyone else a more than fair shake. This also matches everyone's actual personal experience, as well as the data. 

But as long as we continue to fall for it, the con will go on.

Anyway, to the specific example at hand; if you're going to hire someone to manage "diversity" which is a stupid, make-work job to begin with, of course they are going to try and justify that their meaningless job has to exist by posturing about all of the problems that they're working on. If that posturing, in turn, leads to legal sanctions because someone can use that posturing as evidence in a civil suit, well... the take-away is get rid of your diversity people. Or at least muzzle them in public. But better yet, don't have any such position.

It always was a meaningless make-work job to begin with.

UPDATE: The Z-man weighed in on this story too. I'll quote an edited for length part of his post.

What all of the beautiful people know is that the number of black coaches is less than the desired number and that is because of racism. All men are created equal, so what else could explain the disparity in the profession? Further, most coaches were players and most players are black. The logic of social Marxism says that the only possible explanation is some hidden barrier or conspiracy. The reason racial perfection does not exist is something structural.

This bit of logic is slamming into the reality of the business. Teams not only need to win games as a business reality, but they attract owners and executives who want to win games out of competitive instinct. Put another way, the inherent contradiction of the new social religion turns on the fact that the human condition is immutable. They may dream of a world of perfect equality, but men are not equal in the general sense or the particular sense. Therefore, human society is going to be defined by variation and inequality, reflecting the diversity of the people in that society. In the case of football, most players will be black, while most coaches will be white.

The crisis is that the true believers think their good intentions put them on the side of angels, which in this case means the side of nonwhites. In reality, they are alienating the people they claim to represent. Imagine being a young black coach hoping for a chance to be a head coach and quickly learning that your value is in ticking the box on a form required by the league. Regardless of your views on race relations, you have to empathize with this coach suing the league.

What the policy does is reveal that you can have a league where everyone tries to win or you can have a league where everyone tries to comport with the new racial morality of the new religion. You cannot have both. That means the owners can choose between wanting to be a hero to the black man or satisfying the needs of the business. In order to do both, they need to find a way to crush the dreams of this and other black coaches in the name of racial equity.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at it. The NFL is run by some of the most disreputable grifters finance capitalism can produce. The owners are mostly men who gamed the system to skim billions from the people. They have produced nothing and will leave no footprints when they are gone. The NFL is the full expression what is wrong with placing carnies at the top of the social order. No people deserve this misery more than the NFL owners and operators.

Of course, the NFL is the part of the iceberg we see. They represent the managerial elite of the American empire. This NFL policy is about soothing the sensitive psyches of the managerial elite. It is not really about the black coaches. It is about the elites and their need to reconcile their position in society. Instead of building monuments to their people or culture, they are building monuments to themselves by supporting these reckless social engineering schemes.

It is ironic that the people who come from an intellectual tradition rooted in the belief that the inherent contradictions of capitalism will bring down the system and usher in the communist utopia now sit atop a system riddled with internal contradictions. In the fullness of time, scholar will debate how it was possible that radial politics could be wrong about so much and stagger on for so long. The Enlightenment will inevitably be renamed The Great Embarrassment.