You have one BIG BLIND SPOT in your EXCELLENT thoughts on these issues and it is in your “own house”.
Corporations like yours with ESG scores and DEI also bow to the pressure of victim oppressor ideology. DEI/ESG recruiters in the corporate financial world (with diversity analytics tools as pointed out in todays WSJ by the CEO of Par…
You have one BIG BLIND SPOT in your EXCELLENT thoughts on these issues and it is in your “own house”.
Corporations like yours with ESG scores and DEI also bow to the pressure of victim oppressor ideology. DEI/ESG recruiters in the corporate financial world (with diversity analytics tools as pointed out in todays WSJ by the CEO of Paradigm Staffing), prioritize applicants that check the right diversity box so even the most qualified straight white male doesn’t get invited to participate in the recruitment process or gets sacrificed on the altar of DEI in the final rounds. see https://www.privatefundscfo.com/a-seat-at-the-table-inclusion-has-become-a-crucial-factor-in-pe-talent-recruiting/ This is rampant in PE and the financial world right NOW!
The reason why, as Graham Cunningham bluntly states, is “The Left’s appeal to the prosperous middle class is an essentially narcissistic and performative one; offering a way to feel more sophisticated than thou and a cost-free way to feel virtuous.” I know this is a hard truth wrapped in good intentions. Being born in 1963 to white upper middle class Jewish parents. I was raised with a constant drum beat of rising up against the white dominant culture ( now considered the oppressor) as our noble cause. To be absolved the “white patriarchy” of our comfortable upper middle class suburban life we sought the constant endorphins of “speaking truth to power.” But in the end, it was as toxic as it was intoxicating. As white wealthy Jews we MUST first take the painful step of turning inward. My Jewish, intermittent fasting, yoga pantsed, Range Rover driving, hate doesn’t live here lawn signers, BLM donor, suburban moms were GOB SMACKED when the black/ brown, lgbtqia2s+ and other assorted bag of rainbow haired pierced radical campus progressive community was screaming for the genocide of Jews on their babies 70k a year elite college campuses.
We must stop rationalizing this for our own need to be more virtuous than our other white peers and cut the head off the victim oppressor reward for immutable traits industrial complex and dig deep into all of the processes, relationships, memberships, donations, actions etc. that feed this in our own lives and that includes the hiring at companies like yours or Apollo, Goldman etc. Just as we have seen our institutions like Harvard fall to the take over of “spoilt-brat radicalism” and the left-wing fraud “a posh person’s mind games” “corroding us from within” (quoting from Graham Cunningham’s article) we need to own the role we played in this and continue to play and clean our own house too before they fall like the Harvard's of the world!
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You have one BIG BLIND SPOT in your EXCELLENT thoughts on these issues and it is in your “own house”.
Corporations like yours with ESG scores and DEI also bow to the pressure of victim oppressor ideology. DEI/ESG recruiters in the corporate financial world (with diversity analytics tools as pointed out in todays WSJ by the CEO of Paradigm Staffing), prioritize applicants that check the right diversity box so even the most qualified straight white male doesn’t get invited to participate in the recruitment process or gets sacrificed on the altar of DEI in the final rounds. see https://www.privatefundscfo.com/a-seat-at-the-table-inclusion-has-become-a-crucial-factor-in-pe-talent-recruiting/ This is rampant in PE and the financial world right NOW!
The reason why, as Graham Cunningham bluntly states, is “The Left’s appeal to the prosperous middle class is an essentially narcissistic and performative one; offering a way to feel more sophisticated than thou and a cost-free way to feel virtuous.” I know this is a hard truth wrapped in good intentions. Being born in 1963 to white upper middle class Jewish parents. I was raised with a constant drum beat of rising up against the white dominant culture ( now considered the oppressor) as our noble cause. To be absolved the “white patriarchy” of our comfortable upper middle class suburban life we sought the constant endorphins of “speaking truth to power.” But in the end, it was as toxic as it was intoxicating. As white wealthy Jews we MUST first take the painful step of turning inward. My Jewish, intermittent fasting, yoga pantsed, Range Rover driving, hate doesn’t live here lawn signers, BLM donor, suburban moms were GOB SMACKED when the black/ brown, lgbtqia2s+ and other assorted bag of rainbow haired pierced radical campus progressive community was screaming for the genocide of Jews on their babies 70k a year elite college campuses.
We must stop rationalizing this for our own need to be more virtuous than our other white peers and cut the head off the victim oppressor reward for immutable traits industrial complex and dig deep into all of the processes, relationships, memberships, donations, actions etc. that feed this in our own lives and that includes the hiring at companies like yours or Apollo, Goldman etc. Just as we have seen our institutions like Harvard fall to the take over of “spoilt-brat radicalism” and the left-wing fraud “a posh person’s mind games” “corroding us from within” (quoting from Graham Cunningham’s article) we need to own the role we played in this and continue to play and clean our own house too before they fall like the Harvard's of the world!