WotC WotC blacklist. Discussion

[Urriak]

Sorry, aren't informal blacklists for companies.... normal?

I mean, it seems like you'd want to keep track of people you think are difficult to work with to avoid in the future. Obviously it matters who your putting on the list and for what reasons, but just the existence of an informal blacklist isn't exactly a bad thing, right?

 

[Lanefan]

It’s absolutely true that the culture has changed significantly in those 20 years, the weird thing is singling out participation trophies as the cause of that change. There’s a contingent of people who get bafflingly worked up over participation trophies and seem to think they’re everything that’s wrong with society, and… nobody else really cares about them at all.

Heck, at this point, the anti-participation trophy sentiment itself feels pretty outdated. Like, come on, haven’t you moved on to griping about CRT yet?

CRT to me still stands for Cathode Ray Tube.

What does it mean nowadays?

 

[Nikosandros]

CRT to me still stands for Cathode Ray Tube.

What does it mean nowadays?

Critical Race Theory

 

[Jer]

I mean, it seems like you'd want to keep track of people you think are difficult to work with to avoid in the future. Obviously it matters who your putting on the list and for what reasons, but just the existence of an informal blacklist isn't exactly a bad thing, right?

It is if you're on the list.

The problem with informal blacklists is that there can be all kinds of reasons why someone ends up on them - they might be legitimate (like you were hired to do a job but you didn't do it properly) or not (like the manager who has you blacklisted is mad because they asked you out and you said no). They also stretch across companies and into whole industries where the actual reason that you're considered a "problem" isn't as well known as the "fact" that you're a "problem". And that can be a huge issue if the reason you're a "problem" is a lie that you can't fight back against.

 

[Lanefan]

Critical Race Theory

Ah. Not a thing in Canada (yet) thus largely off the radar here.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Ah. Not a thing in Canada (yet) thus largely off the radar here.

Canada sounds nice.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Canada sounds nice.

We like it.

 

[payn]

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[Umbran]

Canada sounds nice.

Your dogwhistle is not finely tuned enough. Please take your digs at inclusivity and politics to other sites that want them.

 

[Parmandur]

Liked CBR better when it was a dedicated comics site, instead of yet another listicle factory. Only reason I still visit there is the extant community, still chugging along on forum software two generations out of date.

I only go there for the ex lusive presser reports.