I watch and defend Billy Mitchell's response to Karl Jobst. I also respond to people who, intentionally or not, defend Karl; e.g., LUS asking for mercy from Billy to Karl, and downplaying/underreporting Karl's racism, while LUS praises Ethan Klein in the middle of a genocide.
#tokenism
Tokenism is the symbolic effort to include underrepresented groups, often without genuine integration. It can lead to feelings of isolation and additional pressure on employees who have been tokenized. 💖🏾✨
#RDI #RainbowDiversityInstitute #Tokenism #Equity #Inclusion #Diversity
🧵 Ihr wollt unsere Geschichten – aber nicht unsere Sichtbarkeit? Ernsthaft?!
Ich bin so müde davon.
Wirklich.
Immer wieder kommen Journalist*innen mit der Bitte: „Erzähl uns deine Geschichte. Erzähl uns, wie es ist, mehrfach diskriminiert zu werden. Wir wollen deine Perspektive. Die ist so wichtig.“⬇️
#Trans #OwnVoices #TransIsBeautiful #Queer #LGBTQIA #DisabilityJustice #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Sichtbarkeit #RepresentationMatters #Representation #Tokenism
Unbequem, radikal, wütend, laut, sichtbar.
Ich wollte mich von Twitter zurückziehen. Der Grund war ein Konflikt mit zwei cis Frauen und einer trans Frau, die über medizinische Versorgung von trans* Menschen diskutierten – ohne bereit zu sein, die Gewalt ihrer eigenen Positionen zu reflektieren.⬇️
#PrideIsARiot #QueerLiberationNow #Queer #LGBTQIA #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #QueerResistance #Tokenism #Solidarität #SorryNotSorry #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Disability
Sad to see how little has progressed on inclusion in the gardening world, though not at all surprised. Good for Tayshan Hayden-Smith for saying something about it though. The sector can be a very exclusive place. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/royal-horticultural-society-ambassador-tayshan-hayden-smith-quits-made-feel-nuisance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #TayshanHaydenSmith #EDI #RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow #tokenism #gardening
The creatives must be taking advices from angel peach 😋 #dp in terms of adding picapica & stecu into the final songlist 🙃🫠 for the sake of embracing #diversity indeed :")
But again and again, such #tokenism strategy did not work out well. 32 in the finalé????
However given the strong digital engagement contrary to the Nielsen rating attached, I think this is pretty much of a multidimentional issue #goodmorning #partyleftover #mostviewedprogram
when such attempt of showing #diversity is just done as a matter of formality then it's called #tokenism :") deleting your post is an act of cowardice btw
"Each year I watch the messaging from organizations who roll out their one connection to #disability and promote it. This can be a win when it helps normalize the idea of fellow humans just being, you know, fellow humans. It can be a problem when the effort is #tokenism. It can be a signal of lack of organizational commitment when the messaging itself is #inaccessible."
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html
My mind's been fvcked up lately thanks to such endless revision 🥲. Should have been "Idola Cinta Nusantara" instead 🙃🫠 Critically enough and genuinely asking btw, will this kinda #tokenism strategy ever work? Because I feel like there's such a missing link right here even though the intention was good overall, considering the origins of remaining contestants and most guest stars invited there :") #goodmorning
The cost of doing business for Apple & Meta. The EU fined Apple and Meta – but failed to really hold them to account. Was that to appease Trump? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/the-eu-fined-apple-and-meta-but-failed-to-really-hold-them-to-account-was-that-to-appease-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Capitalism #Tokenism
The Complete Muhammad Ali and Black Tokenism with Ishmael Reed
#JaredBall
#IshmaelReed #MuhammadAli #Tokenism #CA #SFBA #EastBay #Oakland #Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXRMGJ41FtM
'Ngunna yerrabi yanggu' meaning '(you may) walk on this country now' is a traditional welcome to #Ngunnawal country. - from the link below.
Something like this, "Leave only your footprints on this land" was displayed at the entrance to #NevilleBonnerPrimarySchool.
And almost the whole of the school land covered in concrete and tarmac.
In #Perth, the #Bassendean railway station has Aboriginal advice, "Keep moving or the country will eat you."
Discovering the perfect word to describe a frustrating corporate trend can be illuminating. At a recent book presentation, I stumbled upon 'tokenism' - a term that brilliantly captures how some modern companies mistakenly approach diversity, turning inclusion into a superficial marketing exercise. #tokenism #leadership #inclusion
https://andreafortuna.org/2025/01/25/tokenism-when-diversity-becomes-a-marketing-facade
So hey, Fediverse.
I’ve noticed that # advertisers are sharply moving away from ads with diverse cast and models.
I’m seeing #ads that harken back not look forward.
So, I need your help. Let’s highlight the companies not scared of advertising to a diverse audience and representing the breadth of their customers.
I’m not talking about #tokenism. I’m talking about actual campaigns that follow thru.
I’m gonna start. #woxers recently ran an ad with a #transmasc model. It was glorious.
Your go! I want it all… Holdiay and not… GO!
LGBTQ+ Representation in Video Games: Progress or Tokenism?
https://gallivanting-rainbows.com/read/2024-11-02/lgbtq-representation-in-video-games-progress-or-tokenism #LGBTQRepresentation #VideoGames #Tokenism #GamingIndustry #AuthenticNarratives
The U.S. two-party electoral system functions as an ideological trap of white supremacy by presenting a false binary choice that constrains political imagination while masking the material reality: both parties advance imperial interests through military spending, global interventions, and economic policies that prioritize corporate power over human needs. And the elevation of Black figures like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to command the imperial machine demonstrates the continued success of this ideological and political trap, where the incorporation of non-white actors into the U.S. imperial machinery serves to legitimize rather than challenge fundamental power structures. This strategy extends from the neocolonial projects in Africa and the Caribbean back to the Americas, operating with greater sophistication, efficacy, and reach.
As a Black and South Asian woman in power, Harris co-pilots the administration’s agenda, actively undermining Black sovereignty in Haiti, supporting the zionist entity’s genocide of Palestinian people, and guaranteeing the war machine’s bases, contracts, and weapons programs dominate public spending. Her role demonstrates, once again, the reality that white supremacy works not exclusively through explicit racism but through the assimilation of non-white faces into imperial power structures. This makes the people’s oppression more perfect: by diffusing responsibility across seemingly “progressive” representatives while leaving the material conditions of exploitation intact.
Imperial power deliberately splits “domestic” and “foreign” policy to hide how U.S. imperialism dictates conditions at home. When Congress funnels $175 billion to Ukraine and $20 billion to Israel, it makes explicit economic choices that enrich weapons manufacturers while starving healthcare, housing, and education. Military bases and defense contracts deliberately trap communities in economic dependence, building a loyal base that champions endless war. The military-industrial complex colonizes public universities, turning them into research centers for war and destruction while bridges collapse and flooding decimates cities. Democrats deploy civil rights rhetoric, Republicans preach spreading democracy, while both fund apartheid regimes and death squads. What we get, then, are not not policies but an imperial system executing its core mission: sacrificing the people at home to maintain dominance abroad.
Imperial power exposes its true nature when it selectively grants and denies fundamental rights. While Harris claims to defend reproductive rights domestically, she actively supports policies that bomb Palestinian hospitals to smithereens and make childbirth impossible for Palestinian women. This is not just hypocrisy. It is the coherent application of western white-supremacist imperialist logic operating precisely as intended, measuring human worth by their usefulness to U.S. and western interests. The U.S. military, of which domestic police is but a branch, first perfects its surveillance technologies by testing them on occupied populations abroad. These weapons are then deployed against U.S. residents.. Military commanders develop and refine counter-insurgency strategies in foreign wars, then teach police forces to use these same tactics against the domestic population. The war always comes home.
It’s more grisly, even. The military-industrial machine weaponizes poverty itself, by running it through the gristmill converting economic deprivation into a mechanism of imperial control. Military service becomes one of few viable economic options in poor and minority communities, creating a pipeline where economic desperation drives imperial recruitment. Defense industry jobs create constituencies for continued military spending, while technical education, increasingly orients toward military applications. This is not mere economic policy – it is the systematic creation of material dependencies that make challenging imperial power feel impossible.
Breaking free from white supremacy’s ideological traps requires more than electoral theater. It demands organized, militant resistance by the masses of oppressed peoples who understand their struggles cannot be separated: the fight against Cop City is directly tied to the military occupations of Haiti and the genocide in Palestine.
Blackface imperialism is now the order of the day. Fully colonized Negroes functioning as empire’s overseers, shipping weapons for Palestinian genocide, forcing Haiti’s occupation, and militarizing police terror at home. Our liberation demands masses of exploited and colonized peoples advancing militant political education, forging grounded alliances between struggles, and uncompromising, strategic action that gives the empire no peace. The choice lies not between imperial U.S. political parties, but between submission to empire and militant mass struggle for liberation.
Carlos Sirah
source: Black Agenda Report
Rep. #RitchieTorres: No, the #GOP isn’t becoming more #LGBTQ+ #inclusive.
He calls such #claims "#absurd" and says the GOP is more interested in #tokenism than actually #supporting #queer #equality.
#政治正确 #PoliticalCorrectness 这个词本质就是右派政治狗哨
稍微中性的表达是 #身份政治 #IdentityPolitics ，但这一说法也随着右派污名化而变成了社会语境下对多元文化的攻讦；明明右派才是最爱搞身份政治的（MAGA里的「American」就是身份之一），而随着政治狗哨的传播，所有讨论无论正反都开始使用「政治正确」这一说法
在很多时候，表达者所说的「政治正确」其实是想批判 #装点主义 #Tokenism ；但这种批判的目的原本是要求商品生产更加深入和广泛地探索多元主义，而不是反过来；更多的人仅仅是依此为借口（「多元主义的存在要符合〇〇逻辑、要合适〇〇场景、要贴近〇〇历史或〇〇现实」等等）来打压非顺直白男群体的现身和表达，否定多元主义的可见性（#Visibility）。
representative matters. 在文化作品中呈现女性、酷儿、少数族裔、身材积极性等至关重要，因为我们同样是这个社会的一份子；我们的存在并不需要任何「理由」、任何「意义」、任何「适合」才能够在文化作品中出现；反之，正因为我们的存在被打压、被掩盖，才变成了政治正确。
Inclusive leadership can foster environments where diverse employees feel valued and empowered, balancing empathy, ethics, and efficiency while promoting transparency, mentorship, and constructive dialogue..
#InclusiveLeadership #Diversity #Empathy #Tokenism
https://robert.winter.ink/inclusive-leadership-fostering-diversity-and-equality-in-the-workplace/
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