Blazers social media team...lacking diversity?

[riverman]

As with any large business, it's not hard for one segment of a business to function in a completely different manner than others. The presence of diversity in the locker room doesn't obviate the need for it elsewhere.

I'm not opposed to hiring anyone to do the job that is talented....I just think this is a real stretch in the PC conversation. In a year of heart failure and hernia surgery I've yet to see a white doctor out of 7 different specialists...no complaints...they are talented doctors...but I think they were hired for their skills, not their ethnicity..being inclusive is something to do for all the right reasons but to be really inclusive, no ethnic characteristics should separate anyone from getting the job they're great at...none of this is an excuse for bad business ethics regarding racial profiling

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I'm not opposed to hiring anyone to do the job that is talented....I just think this is a real stretch in the PC conversation. In a year of heart failure and hernia surgery I've yet to see a white doctor out of 7 different specialists...no complaints...they are talented doctors...but I think they were hired for their skills, not their ethnicity..being inclusive is something to do for all the right reasons but to be really inclusive, no ethnic characteristics should separate anyone from getting the job they're great at...none of this is an excuse for bad business ethics regarding racial profiling

Part of the need for a social media team for a large business is having an understanding of how the message is perceived by diverse audiences. In this case, ethnic characteristics legitimately impact the ability to be good at the job.

 

[riverman]

Part of the need for a social media team for a large business is having an understanding of how the message is perceived by diverse audiences. In this case, ethnic characteristics legitimately impact the ability to be good at the job.

I don't agree with your assumption but that's just me rambling from the cheap seats as a Blazer fan...it's a sticking point with me...I put together a trio in Taiwan with 2 Taiwanese musicians and we were fairly successful....they had a nation wide competition for the best band in Taiwan and I wasn't allowed to compete....I've always felt that was wrong on many levels. They said there are already so many famous white musicians....if I were from Malaysia and looked Taiwanese...it wouldn't have been an issue. I'm at a point in human evolution where I think it's time to be just a member of the human race and go from there...across the board, from all camps...I'm game and I'll break bread with any decent person

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I don't agree with your assumption but that's just me rambling from the cheap seats as a Blazer fan...it's a sticking point with me...I put together a trio in Taiwan with 2 Taiwanese musicians and we were fairly successful....they had a nation wide competition for the best band in Taiwan and I wasn't allowed to compete....I've always felt that was wrong on many levels. They said there are already so many famous white musicians....if I were from Malaysia and looked Taiwanese...it wouldn't have been an issue. I'm at a point in human evolution where I think it's time to be just a member of the human race and go from there...across the board, from all camps...I'm game and I'll break bread with any decent person

People from any ethnicity can be amazing musicians. People from any ethnicity can be excellent doctors. People from any ethnicity can be great athletes.

But white people can't simply see the world the way people of color do, no matter how much we might want to, because life in America is just different for us.

 

[hoopsjock]

Part of the need for a social media team for a large business is having an understanding of how the message is perceived by diverse audiences. In this case, ethnic characteristics legitimately impact the ability to be good at the job.

My only issue with that is no one noticed (if they did excuse me I wasn't aware and I will stand corrected) that the content itself lacked diversity until they saw the skin color of those behind it.

 

[THE HCP]

I love black people!

 

[julius]

Quick question, HCP, do you do their yard maintenance too?

 

[riverman]

But white people can't simply see the world the way people of color do,

that's quite a blanket statement..anyone who has the experience of being immersed in another culture can see the way the locals do. Music is a perfect example...so is language...learning to speak Mandarin changed my patterns of communication a lot. Playing in a Cuban salsa band for 3 years immersed me into Cuban culture a lot..would have been more if I'd learned Spanish better. Same in Hawaii..had local friends and learned some pidgin English...gained some insight....Social media for me includes TV, internet, radio, print...etc...we have Michael Holton, Orlando Williams, Jordan Kent, Lamar Hurd, talking Blazers now....we've had Chris Haynes and other beat journalists....writers are anthropologists in the end...good ones cross over the boundaries of seperation

 

[julius]

How long until we get one of those sappy John Canzano articles about this?

 

[riverman]

The Blazers will definitely have a staff meeting over this issue so in that context...it will probably factor into their hirings in the future

 

[santeesioux]

Where's all the Native Americans at!?!?

 

[riverman]

Where's all the Native Americans at!?!?

My grandmother...passed when I was in high school. Last in my family.

 

[santeesioux]

My grandmother...passed when I was in high school. Last in my family.

Sorry about your grandma.

 

[riverman]

Sorry about your grandma.

She was awesome...Lakota...grew up around Deadwood

 

[Natebishop3]

Just gonna say, this thread is basically a bunch of white guys complaining about calls for diversity.

Because guess who gets laid off when there are calls for diversity? What happens to the person that gets diversified?

 

[HailBlazers]

I love black people!

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And Photoshop!

 

[THE HCP]

And Photoshop!

Alright this made me laugh.

 

[Natebishop3]

HCP is their token white friend!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Because guess who gets laid off when there are calls for diversity? What happens to the person that gets diversified?

Comparatively our hardships are miniscule. We can deal.

 

[Natebishop3]

Comparatively our hardships are miniscule. We can deal.

Compared to who? People who have similar credentials to me have significantly more hardships?

 

[blazerboy30]

Comparatively our hardships are miniscule. We can deal.

You speak for all white people, do you?

Get off your high horse.

 

[blazerboy30]

Part of the need for a social media team for a large business is having an understanding of how the message is perceived by diverse audiences. In this case, ethnic characteristics legitimately impact the ability to be good at the job.

You're trying to argue that diversity may improve certain aspects of business. Which may or may not be true.

But it says nothing about why an external group should be offended by the level of diversity. The Blazers social media team doesn't owe you a product. If they're truly creating a poor product due to their lack of diversity, it will negatively affect their business.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

You're trying to argue that diversity may improve certain aspects of business. Which may or may not be true.

But it says nothing about why an external group should be offended by the level of diversity. The Blazers social media team doesn't owe you a product. If they're truly creating a poor product due to their lack of diversity, it will negatively affect their business.

Who said anyone was offended?

 

[blazerboy30]

Who said anyone was offended?

You forgot the green font.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

My only issue with that is no one noticed (if they did excuse me I wasn't aware and I will stand corrected) that the content itself lacked diversity until they saw the skin color of those behind it.

Actually people are upset about that. Apparently our social media steals from "Black Twitter" and now that people know our social media team is white, that's a huge problem too.

 

[hoopsjock]

Actually people are upset about that. Apparently our social media steals from "Black Twitter" and now that people know our social media team is white, that's a huge problem too.

But I never heard anything about it before the video today, which is my point.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

But I never heard anything about it before the video today, which is my point.

Yeah I know, they didn't care before now. Pretty sure we were one on the most popular accounts last season.

 

[Paine Tablet]

As with any large business, it's not hard for one segment of a business to function in a completely different manner than others. The presence of diversity in the locker room doesn't obviate the need for it elsewhere.

How do you address the issue of diversity in the NBA when it's so overwhelmingly overrepresented by POC? There is a stunning lack of diversity from what should be expected given demographics measuring the important things(not basketball skill of course).

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not the way any company should hire its employees...

 

[Paine Tablet]

People from any ethnicity can be amazing musicians. People from any ethnicity can be excellent doctors. People from any ethnicity can be great athletes.

But white people can't simply see the world the way people of color do, no matter how much we might want to, because life in America is just different for us.

I was walking the other day in NE Portland past a group of clearly East African immigrants. They were teenage boys throwing around the N word in a thick accent. They spoke in their native tongue and have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Their appropriation and use of words of oppression should rile you, no?