I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Progressive racism
January 9, 2008
For all this talk about hiring quotas, ‘equal’ opportunity, and the like, it might do well to consider:
Is it just me, or is Starbucks tendency to scratch themselves on the back for hiring minorities just a flaming example of liberal racism? Yes, I said the word �Racism.� A person�s color or genitalia should be totally irrelevant when it comes time to dole out job offers and promotions. The fact that Starbucks sets yearly goals on how many Latinos they�re going to promote this year is just as racist as refusing to hire someone based on skin color.
Speaking as both a woman and a minority, (Ha! Threw you a little curveball there, eh?) I would be utterly horrified if my job security had anything to do at all with my genitalia or my minority status. I want to be promoted because I�m the right person for the job. I�d like to be recognized for my contributions to the company, my drive to succeed, my reliability, and my superior problem solving skills. My skin color should be irrelevant.
Referencing the skin color of your employees in some self congratulatory pamphlet as proof that you�re oh so diverse is racist. If Starbucks was truly a tolerant company, those factors would be completely inconsequential instead of applauded.
When one thinks of racism, one tends to think of the bad old days when people believed that people were better — or worse — than each other based on trivial things like gender or skin colour. In our moder, enlightened time, things work a little differently, but the basic principle is still the same.
