More Coke, more woke BS, giving the Muppets a hard time, and the Liberal Government abstaining from condemning the genocide in China as we speak. All that and more coming up in The Krusty Canuck Podcast!
00:01:00.880Yes, ladies and gentlemen, more coke, woke BS, giving the Muppets a hard time and the Liberal government abstaining from condemning the genocide in China as we speak.
00:01:11.960And not to mention a few other political pundits and farbligarb that's been going on in this country today.
00:01:42.800Now, I'll leave links in the description and all that good stuff for you to read along and decide.
00:01:48.240But basically what I read about this article from the Postmillennial is that here's a so-called woke individual telling these corporate moguls and companies alike how it's terrible being white.
00:01:58.740Now, I was not raised in a racial household.
00:02:28.400And Coca-Cola being one of the biggest major companies on the planet.
00:02:31.760Not just in North America, but everywhere you go in the world, there's always some kind of Coke logo someplace trying to sell you the soft drink, trying to sell you products thereof.
00:02:41.500Whether it's the Powerade, whether it's this drink or that drink.
00:03:47.260In this day and age, right now, 2021, technological advances left and right, especially in the social media spectrum, telling you not to be certain.
00:04:06.040So, if I walk around all the time and I try not to be certain about things, are you telling me that I shouldn't be an adult?
00:04:15.700I should second guess myself everywhere I turn around?
00:04:19.160Every time I go to the store, every time I fill up my truck of gasoline, every time I pay a bill, every time I kiss my wife, I have to be uncertain.
00:04:47.360So, does that mean a customer can walk into your store who doesn't happen to be Caucasian and they can tell you they want this and want that?
00:04:54.600And you don't have to be certain with them?
00:05:45.580Now, I can understand simple things like don't be greedy because there might be people that need help.
00:05:50.780Or don't be an asshole when people need to hear a sympathetic ear of some sort.
00:05:54.940But there's also a line here that I'll emphasize that really drove me up the fucking wall.
00:06:01.020Yes, this comes from the Daily Mail in the UK.
00:06:03.780The headline is LinkedIn takes down white authors' slides telling people to be less white and less oppressive from its learning site after backlash against the Coca-Cola for using the video in diversity trading.
00:07:40.620Nobody that I know in my circle is in any way lined with any kind of white solidarity movement.
00:07:46.880So, for this individual to sit there and try to make this fucking public, she's right the fuck out to lunch.
00:07:53.760Anyway, carrying on with the story from Daily Mail.
00:07:57.560Well, I said a controversial training slides by a white academic encouraging people to be less white have been removed from LinkedIn's learning platform after Coca-Cola came under fire for making them available to its staff.
00:08:11.420The slides in question, which went viral on social media after they were revealed by a whistleblower working for the soft drink giant in the U.S., told viewers that being less white meant being less oppressive, less arrogant, and less ignorant.
00:08:22.320The slides come from a series of LinkedIn host videos called Confronting Racism with Robin DiAngelo, a white academic who argues that even well-meaning white people are complicit in racist structures unless they actually work to be an anti-racist.
00:08:35.160Well, to be an anti-racist means you're born in a country and born with people that are teaching you the right way to do things.
00:08:43.580It doesn't matter what color you are, folks.
00:08:46.440If people still have to be reminded not to be racist, then there's a problem on the individuals, not on society.
00:08:52.580After calls for boycotts and lawsuits against Coca-Cola, the firm said it merely provided access to the slides in the LinkedIn learning site as part of its diversity training rather than making them require viewing.
00:09:03.100But the slides have now been taken down altogether at the request of the third-party content provider we license this content from, a LinkedIn spokeswoman told Newsweek on Monday.
00:09:14.180Basically, the heading says, try to be less white.
00:09:16.240Now, yes, I admit there are racists in society today.
00:09:45.480And they were quite disturbing, the points of view that these individuals had when it came to race and people and organizing this and organizing that.
00:10:19.560Now, I'm going to ignore that last one because nobody, like I said, nobody I know in my circle that happened to be white are in any kind of solidarity movement whatsoever over the color of their skin.