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Just a heads up, was at winners today ,just a dynamite sheet sale ,
Think you'd get a second look if you showed up at your first Clan gathering wearing the Teddy Bear collection ....:sign0176: |
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He made one small staement and you took that as an excuse to launch. Fact is that there are all sorts of businesses that are not colour blind in the board room and that includes the oil and gas sector. We all know it... and some of us have seen it with our own eyes. Apparently Gust is one of em. For my part... I can't remember EVER seeing a non-white face representing them on TV in ANY capacity and that does make one wonder.... now that it has been brought up. The real question though... is why are you so sensitive about it princess? |
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What does it make you wonder? You pay attention to the skin color of people you see on TV? What does that say about you? My Alberta is about the best man for the job. The color of an individual’s skin is meaningless. No matter how much the New Temporary Albertan’s want to make it about some sort of politically correct, white guilt, Oil & Gas is bad thing. If either you or Gust have some evidence of a "large drilling firm" or any firm for that matter; who "employs members of this board" & has racist & bigoted "internal executive policies" I am all ears. (And will be the 2nd person on the band wagon) Until then I will regard it as just another attack on Albertans & our industries. |
There are thousands of minorities working in the Oil & Gas sector from CEO's to engineers to techs, tradesman etc. etc.
To say that so and so company is biased based on skin colour is just plain ignorant... |
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My original point is that it's easier to attain a kkk vision in the workplace than as a club. Even moreso troubling is when that thought structure happens and is enacted from boardroom. |
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This. It's the same old steaming bag of KKK bovine excrement, only packaged in a thin multicultural baggie so you can't smell the poo so easily. :snapoutofit: |
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I didn't realize it was sacreligious to critisize the patch??? But I can tell you this as sure as the sun shines.....there is plenty of BS that goes on in the patch....from the lowly workers to the top executives. It sure aint peaches and cream....and that's as fact as a fact can be!!!! |
How many of you know the involvement of the communists in the early years of Alberta?
Then there were the fascists. A lot of them fought in the Spanish civil war. A lot of them came home from the war to become school teachers. Oh, and what about the black folks and Chinese . They came too. |
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Wasn't there a Communist town government in the Crowsnest Pass. Read that somewhere - found it Abstract On 14 February 1933, the citizens of Blairmore, Alberta, elected a Communist town council; this so-called Red administration remained in power until 1936. Best known for their seemingly outrageous actions, the council exists within current historiography as either the result of protracted depression or an example of the success experienced by the Communist Party of Canada during this period. This thesis will challenge both arguments, demonstrating that a series of social, economic, and political experiences resulted in the election of known Communists being socially permissible by 1933. It w ill be demonstrated that the agenda of council was not strictly ìCommunist,î rather it represented a balance between radical and populist programs, thus enabling council to challenge capitalist society while providing a practical response to the local effects of the Depression. The deterioration of this balance by 1936, coupled with a series of scandals, was resultant in the councilís electoral downfall. Politics in Alberta have been everywhere at one point or another. regards, Don |
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It is pointless to try convincing anyone dedicated to self delusion. No hard feelings Sneeze... but you really do need to try to be more objective and not take every reference to oil and gas personnally. JMHO. Regards.:) |
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Otherwise we'd have ousted those PC's a long time ago.:) |
I'm guessing they wouldn't like me much. Being racially impure, the product of a mixed marriage, done my best to create more racial impurity, not sure how the Alberta's kkk think but I know the southern us ones aren't fans of Catholics so that be for me strike 3!!!! Lmao
As for racism in oil patch haven't seen to much, 15 years and can think of maybe 5 overt no imagination moments that I've been offended. That said a couple of those were over the phone without having met me ( I talk like a white guy when I'm talking to white guys lol). The point being not to many people start things with the bigger fellas, most of those types try it with the small frys. Interesting stuff though, if I wasn't disqualified I would almost want to join. |
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I will give you a tip. If you type (quote) insert text here (/quote) you can make your responses a bit nicer to read. Replace the ( with [ and ) with ]. For example: Quote:
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I am curious however if there has been any research done in regards to the Nepotism of the Oil & Gas Industry? Any papers published comparing its level of nepotism to that of other industries in Alberta? Or is it's nepotism famous just to you? Quote:
My definition of a "new temporary Albertan" is somebody that lives, works and hunts here and will not define themselves as an Albertan. Quote:
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So far I am seeing you shining a light into a closet and finding clothing not skeletons. So, after the long winded response to your long winded response: What in the wide wide world of sports are you trying to say, ask, describe, figure out!???? |
When I first started there wasn't nearly as many minorities as now. It was not quite rare but not quite common to see other visible minorities. Today you see the full spectrum, all types, all sexes all religions.
I've been told that in the older days it was tougher to get into and had to dig your heels in a bit, but society has changed so much for the better and so have people in that regard. |
Clever answers?
Seems lke alot of bickering for a bunch of "men"...
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My folks had much to do with Edmonton "Silly hall" back in the 70's and 80's, Through their social contacts, my folks knew a journalist who did a story on neo Nazis in Alberta. The journalist answered his door one evening and was assaulted by a skin head type fellow, the assault cost him vision in one of his eyes.. From what I have heard, that type of thinking is still rampant in Alberta. I worked for a pressure vessel company about 8 or 9 years ago and while there, I saw much antisemitism and KKK stuff written on the stalls in the washroom.
It's nice to see many posts that degrade that type of attitude, but I think we are only fooling ourselves by thinking that all of that is gone. |
The provinces with the highest rates of hearing racist comments were Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba/Saskatchewan at 74% each, followed closely by Ontario at 71%.
The highest rate of witnessing racism was in British Columbia (41%) followed by Alberta at 40% and Ontario at 32%. As for those reporting a rise in racism in their neighbourhood, the province with the highest rate was B.C. (18%) followed by Ontario (16%) and Alberta (15%). The results are part of an in-depth public opinion poll on racism conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. The results are being released weeks after a Statistics Canada study predicted that by 2031 one in three Canadians will belong to a visible minority group and one in four Canadians will be foreign born. |
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Not sure about corporate but I know quite a few consultants, pushes, field supervisors etc that wouldn't qualify for the kkk. But all of the ones I know are my kind of brown lol.
The racism study is odd, hearing and seeing racism are very subjective to viewpoint. If you heard the way me and some of my friends eviscirate each other, you would think what a bunch if insensitive jerks. |
i found 5 orange "pips" ay my fishing honey hole today. think i'm being recruted.
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However I think protectionism and racism are often mistaken specially by the media. In Vancouver for instance there is a flood of rich immigrants from Asia. Locals hold some resentment but not because the immigrants are a different color and breeding with the locals or any purity or other ideological issue. They resent it because the immigrants are driving property prices through the stratosphere and putting pressure on resources resulting in locals being priced out of their homeland and forever changing the landscape. Its really not a race issue at all. It just happens that a majority of the immigrants in this case are a visual minority. Alberta with its flood or outside workers also has a healthy dose of protectionism and understandably so. Things have certainly changed for any local that has been around here for +30 years. I can understand some resentment in that regard. Times always change but that doesn't mean its easy to see the old ways die. |
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X2 ^Be they newer members, or older members with new names ... they're still here, all right! Their posting tactics may have changed, but it's obvious that their ideologies haven't. TF |
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