You should try the team building exercises in the Navy, or the oil field. I can attest to both; nothing strengthens team morale like shared drunken debauchery.Team building exercises were the absolute worst waste of time ever.
You should try the team building exercises in the Navy, or the oil field. I can attest to both; nothing strengthens team morale like shared drunken debauchery.Team building exercises were the absolute worst waste of time ever.
You forgot to mention "omissions"... That would pretty much wrap up the argument of anyone who considers him/herself a victim... in their logic, it would put you in a corner and leave you no way out of their accusationswe're all responsible for any discriminatory acts, utterances or thoughts
Ah, yes-- "omissions." As in, "You didn't condemn <insert name here> when he said, '<insert quote of allegedly offensive statement here>', therefore you're a BAD PERSON! You should be fired from your job and barred from ever working again!"You forgot to mention "omissions"... That would pretty much wrap up the argument of anyone who considers him/herself a victim... in their logic, it would put you in a corner and leave you no way out of their accusations
oooohh, careful again. Now you're getting political, on top of alluding to race correlation with political party association. Tisk tisk, you dirty racist.The Left has become quite adept at putting its adversaries in "damned if you do, damned if you don't" positions and convicting people of thoughtcrime for doing absolutely nothing offensive at all...
Nope, didn't say that. If you read the posts. The topic was mass shootings. Single shootings by color or race is a different topic, and one that probably can't be discussed here for reasons related to the rest of the thread. I'm going to be PC now.It's so reassuring to know that number of people killed by terrorists by means other than shootings are so small as to be ignored altogether.
No, you didn't say it and the follow-up was more directed a post a bit earlier in the chain. Establishing the correct context was a bit tricky and I didn't do it well.Nope, didn't say that. If you read the posts. The topic was mass shootings. Single shootings by color or race is a different topic, and one that probably can't be discussed here for reasons related to the rest of the thread. I'm going to be PC now.
No problem.No, you didn't say it and the follow-up was more directed a post a bit earlier in the chain. Establishing the correct context was a bit tricky and I didn't do it well.
But the tone of the thread is drifting into proscribed areas (as I figured it probably would sooner or later) so let's all try to restrain ourselves a bit closer to the original topic (which is not to say that I don't think most of the discussion isn't reasonably well related to the underlying concepts in many ways).
I suspect that that is true of most countries. Wars are intense, but concentrated events and even in WWII only directly involved a small fraction of the total population (of course that fraction was higher in many countries and the U.S. has been fortunate that very few of our conflicts have been fought on U.S. soil). The result is that the much lower non-accidental, non-natural death rate (what used to be called "deaths due to mischief") overtakes it pretty easily because it is applied to a much larger group of people over a much larger period of time.Another little fact did pop up related to wars thinning the population. In the US we have killed more of us than all of our wars combined. Not sure what that means, but it is an interesting number.
Having worked mostly for small employers, I have fortunately been spared most of this team-building tripe. The few times that I have had to partake I have found the activities somewhat fun (only because the particular activity was somewhat fun) but have never seen anything that indicated that it did anything to improve organization teamwork. In the Air Force these kinds of events were widely listed as "mandatory fun" events. Sometimes whispered under the table and sometimes spoken openly by the person mandating it. I always observed that esprit de corps was generally much higher in the units in which the person mandating it was open about calling it mandatory fun, which says good things about the attitude of the leader more than anything else.You forgot to mention "omissions"... That would pretty much wrap up the argument of anyone who considers him/herself a victim... in their logic, it would put you in a corner and leave you no way out of their accusations
Yeah, When a leader calls things by their true names, he inspires trust.I always observed that esprit de corps was generally much higher in the units in which the person mandating it was open about calling it mandatory fun, which says good things about the attitude of the leader more than anything else.
You guys had MANDOFUN in the chair force too? I figured you would have called that DUTY.In the Air Force these kinds of events were widely listed as "mandatory fun" events.
That was still an option where I was in high school in the sixties. I think the coach enjoyed it. Fortunately, my dad had taught me to box; unfortunately, the coach didn't enforce the rules.When my dad was in school (he graduated in 1945) if two kids were caught fighting it was broken up and both kids had to report to the football coach after school who gave them boxing gloves and had them duke it out.
No. Liberalism.What's happening on campus reflects a gradual shift in our society: selective hyper-sensitivity.
I refuse to buy into that warped way of thinking.Not just white guilt. It's collective white guilt: remember, we're all responsible for any discriminatory acts, utterances or thoughts any white individual commits or has ever committed, going all the way back to the beginning of time.
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