white people are too good at making music, we need affirmative action in orchestras!
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Meh, it's been a slow death for decades now, it's only been accelerated recently.
Think back to the 90s when they banned dodgeball and other competitive sports from gym class. We can't have athletic kids make nonathletic kids feel bad about their lack of ability. Might as well ban it for everyone. This was also right around the time when participation trophies were awarded to every child for simply showing up, and they stopped 'officially' keeping score at children's sporting events so no ones feelings would get hurt.
It's been a long, steady decline for a long time now.
I know many many classical musicians. The blind audition process is there to help allow the BEST of the BEST get in. There’s even a carpet down so judges can’t hear high-heels and get biased against women.
What the fuck!!
A black friend won the 1st chair in one of the best orchestras around and it was a huge fucking deal. Won it bc he’s the best. Ain’t got shit to do w complexion.
Talent. Merit. Hard fucking work. True American Dream.
Years ago, this policy was instituted as a way to protect women and minorities from bias. Now we are told we must get rid of them to protect women and minorities???
Clown World, dude. Clown World.
Nobwe get rid of them in order to allow discrimination again because these people have decided discriminating against whites and men is preferable to equality
this is 100% correct. My how the tables have turned.
It’s because it’s not about protecting minorities anymore. It’s about replacing White people.
Aren't Asians over represented in classical music as well? They'll probably go the Ivy League route and limit them as well.
In Australia they tried to fight sexism by taking the names off job applications and found that disparity actually increased so they stopped doing that
Not women...
Word. Not to mention it's still a second or third job if you're not with one of the biggest orchestras.
There should be a blind audition for just about everything.
First chair beatbox.
Probably paranoia speaking but you might want to get rid of the parenthetical portion. Could figure it the identity or at least narrow it down by finding which of the best orchestras have only one black first chair.
Can confirm. 80's kid, 90's teen. We used to smuggle footballs in our backpacks. Watching the principal sperg out when she found out the name of the game we were playing was "smear the queer" was priceless. Especially since we were so young none of us knew what queer meant lol. I thought it meant kick returner untill I was 9.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in decades, that and fag tag. I don't remember much about either game in school except that nobody I know took those games seriously or had any genuine deep-seated feelings about sexual preference (we were kids after all).
As for the names themselves, we only liked them because adults didn't want us using those words.
Remember this one? - " I do so know what a queer is! You just don't know and you want me to tell you! No way QUEER!!!!" I once called my friend Josh a lesbian masterbation, I had no clue what it meant. The teacher laughed his ass off
lol I played smear the queer in school. I remembered it a few years ago and asked if anyone else remembers it and so many people got pissed off at me thinking it was some kind of backwater deep south thing children of klansmen did. Nope, southern California in the early 90s.
LOVED PLAYING THAT!!!
Man as a teenager I'm so glad I went to a k-12 private catholic school, nobody there banned my class from "picking teams" or hitting kids in the heads with dodgeballs, I see so many public schools indulging in the liberal "fairness" BS that's been poisoning our society.
Catholic Schools are probably the last major educational institution that isn't completely corrupted by leftists. Despite the stupid stuff that the current pope focuses on, Catholics have been teaching under the same fundamental principles for thousands of years.
BTW you don't necessarily have to be Catholic to go to them. You just have to be respectful of the fact that it is a Catholic school, so you cannot make a fuss about the fact that your kids are going to be taught under a system guided by Catholic theology.
And the nuns would smack us around when we misbehaved. Good times!
And stopped using red pens to grade school work because it's traumatizing and hurts their feelings.
Shit.
For real?
For real. Hell, I'm in California. My wife and I are having a gender reveal today for our baby (due in February). People here are leaving shitty comments on my wife's Facebook. "How dare you try to pick your child's gender, Reeeeeee reeeeeeeee Reeeeeee! Honestly my wife has always been redpilled. She was a pede before me, but now she is full blown Augusto Pinochet fire up the helicopters mode. When she said that none of these freaks is allowed to talk to our child because they will try to give her the mind virus I was so proud.
your wife have an unmarried sister?...lol
"My wife and I are having a gender reveal today for our baby (12 in February)"
Kidding, kidding.
You won the marriage lottery
Congrats!
It’S a SeX ReVeAl
I've had students ask not to grade in red pen because it's demoralizing
But purple ink is any better?! I got an F but it at least it ain’t RED!
https://time.com/31960/school-bans-teachers-from-using-red-ink-because-its-too-mean/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/send-the-right-message-ab_b_9100560
And this is how we get to helicopter mothers calling workplaces to see if there is a cake planned at the office for their daughter and interceding in employee performance evaluations. Yes, it's real.
honk honk
Yep. My wife's a school teacher. It's a real thing.
I guess I was right before all that because I was in school the entire 90s and we still had all of that. I am abysmally horrible at sports and many years I hated gym class and I still wouldn't want it banned. I always felt the good gym teachers had a wide enough set of activities in their back pocket to level the playing field a bit anyway.
I hated gym class too, especially dodge ball. It really reveals which sporty kids are total jerks and like to bean someone as hard as they can for no reason. I used to just cheat and sit down before I was actually out so they'd quite hitting me as hard as they could. If you're really feeling stealthy, you can hit people while sitting, since you're not technically out. I figure I was just introducing snipers to dodge ball.
I hear at least some schools now give you PE credits for other activities. Some got credits for ballet (which involves 4-6 hours of class per week), some others could do a mountain biking group with their school. I was born too soon, I guess.