BREAKING: Nissan Motor will be rolling back its diversity initiatives, per NYP

They are merely the vanguard of the corporate movement to get rid of DEI and the trans movement. Expect most, if not all, to follow suit.

Straight white people only

That frees up more money for funding the Trump inauguration. Gotta shmooze the president if you want to keep playing in the US.

Nissan is a heartbeat away from going bankrupt. They’re flailing and doing anything to save cash, including sucking up to Honda.

DEI is DEAD!!!

Nissan's shiteous cars finally caught up to them. Their French sugar daddy left them, so now they're on the prowl for a new one. Maybe they'll find him closer to home this time.

Diversity Initiatives are generally BS any way. Can anyone point one that had positive outcomes? They were create to quell the public after the George Floyd upheavals. Then came the expected Black lash from whites, who refuse to give up any power.

If most universities focused solely on academic credentials (SAT, GPA. AP tests and scores), the number of white people would go down and the number of Asians would skyrocket.

R8 It's a slippery slope. If too many asian kids go to a school, the white kids will go somewhere else. Universities can get a reputation as no fun and a grind if they over index on asians. My college roommate now works in admissions for a state university. They would never admit this publically of course.

Nissan gets consistently low marks from mechanics of the top 3 vehicles they wouldn’t buy

Good r8! Maybe white students would start pulling their weight and we wouldn’t have so many stupid people.

They're a heartbeat away from failure. What's the point?

They consistently design the ugliest cars out of any brand.

Just remember Infinitis are overpriced Nissans.

R8 and what about the black student population?

[quote] If too many asian kids go to a school, the white kids will go somewhere else. Universities can get a reputation as no fun and a grind if they over index on asians

College is not supposed to be all about fun and parties nitwit. Asians will be more than happy to replace entitles white kids there to party while they work on a degree to better themselves. Your college roommate sounds as dumb as a box of rocks.

As I said back then, all the vast majority of black people asked for was for the police to calm the fuck down and to stop killing us. No one asked for statues to be removed, Gone With the Wind to be taken off TCM, defunding the police, and all the DEI initiatives. None of those things had anything to do with stopping deadly interactions between the police and some black people.

Every time shit like this happens, liberal white people go overboard, and black people end up being blamed.

R17, most Americans would be outraged if they witnessed an animal being killed by police in the manner George Floyd was murdered. After witnessing that horror it occurred to many people -- white, Black and other -- that America has spent 400+ years fostering a culture that dehumanizes Black people. All of those actions you described were undertaken with the sincere intent of addressing our cultural problems. The racist backlash is a natural consequence of taking proactive steps to mitigate the negative effects of racism in a country that is fundamentally and comfortably racist.

Good. Fuck them. We, including our allies, don’t have to but their shitty cars.

Boycott Nissan.

I distinguish marketing DEI from genuine DEI. Save a buck or two by no longer sponsoring Pride? Fine. Show me who you hire and how you treat your workforce. That's what counts to me.

Nissan should merge with Stellantis – – both suck.

R16 It's all about keeping wealthy alumni and heavy donors happy. Colleges and universities are all about the money. You need to wake up, henny.

R16 social life has been a significant aspect of Colleges and Universities in this country since the 1800s.

[quote] I distinguish marketing DEI from genuine DEI. Save a buck or two by no longer sponsoring Pride? Fine. Show me who you hire and how you treat your workforce. That's what counts to me.

Corporations don't distinguish, its D&I touches every division -- from marketing to HR. What most have figured out is that at least 50% of its consumers are non-white.

I wonder what Hallmark Christmas Gay and Nissan Spokesperson Jonathan Bennett has to say about this?

R8, R9

Good. Hire only the best. We all know black people aren’t the smartest.

[quote]most Americans would be outraged if they witnessed an animal being killed by police in the manner George Floyd was murdered.

Most animals have not served EIGHT jail terms on various charges, including drug possession, theft, and trespassing. So there is that.

Since it is Nissan Motors, wouldn't DEI initiatives refer to hiring more white people?

Nissan makes the shittiest cars I’ve ever driven, so bad I’d rather drive a Kia.

[quote] Honda and Nissan have formally agreed to hold talks over the next six months on a possible merger, a deal that would create the world’s third-largest automaker and give them more resources to compete with a growing threat from Chinese carmakers. A third, smaller Japanese automaker, Mitsubishi, which is already in an alliance with Nissan, will also participate in the talks. The combined company, should it be created, would trail only Toyota (TM) and Volkswagen in global sales.

R27 - alright dumbass racist - but you know it also means women, gays / lesbians, Latinos, and non-Japanese are going to potentially suffer when it comes to hiring, right?

The problem - and I've seen it with my own eyes - is that a lot of straight white men want a frat house environment and to pal around with other straight white men.

What I know for sure is that having different genders and viewpoints bring about the best results and the most ideas. When it's all the same type of people in the room, it becomes more of a 'club' thing and the amount of aggression and disrespect goes off the charts.

All male teams, all female teams, all white teams - sincerely, I've seen them all and they don't function well.

"Good [R8]! Maybe white students would start pulling their weight and we wouldn’t have so many stupid people."

Lol...less stupid people, just like in Asia?

Dude, have you lived in an Asian country? Any of them? I'm not patriotic in the slightest, but I don't envy Asia for the "quality" of its political or business leaders. I know it's hard to believe, but on the whole it may be worse than it is in the US.

[quote]Lol...less stupid people, just like in Asia?

"fewer" stupid people, not " less."

Will Nissan cars still come with personalized pronouns?

"As I said back then, all the vast majority of black people asked for was for the police to calm the fuck down and to stop killing us. No one asked for statues to be removed, Gone With the Wind to be taken off TCM, defunding the police, and all the DEI initiatives. None of those things had anything to do with stopping deadly interactions between the police and some black people."

Well, there whole class of grifters with PhDs all hopped up on Judith Butler and YA fiction who wanted to make the big bucks doing consulting work is to blame. That included professional BLM protesters who would fly into a city where a young guy had just been killed by cops and successfully coopt existing community protests. Lots of these people are black, some are white. White people are certainly somewhat to blame, because they fell in line without any kind of real insight into why they were being asked to take down statues, censor kids books, and announce their white privilege and supremacy everytime there was a meeting.

"of those actions you described were undertaken with the sincere intent of addressing our cultural problems. The racist backlash is a natural consequence of taking proactive steps to mitigate the negative effects of racism in a country that is fundamentally and comfortably racist."

Lol, knocking "To Kill a Mockingbird" off of *suggested* reading lists and taking down statues of Abe Lincoln are not proactive steps to "mitigate" racism. Every fifth thinkpiece or so at the time was moronic drivel that actively stoked racism---articles like "Why We Need to Talk About John Brown's White Privilege" or "I don't like white people---here's why" were fucking everywhere. You're a dupe, babe---and you're in the slim minority of people who don't realize that the woke charade was a totally cynical scam.

What happened to "We're not going back." Oh yeah, she lost.

[quote] As I said back then, all the vast majority of black people asked for was for the police to calm the fuck down and to stop killing us.

Tell us another one. 🙄

This is a thread about... Nissan, right?

Well, R40, at least it hasn't devolved into a discussion of "Follies" or Sondheim.