Woke Academia, Wedding Photos Edition

[Weatherman2020]

According to Michigan State University’s Amy Bonomi, director of the university’s Children and Youth Institute, and Neila Viveiros, associate vice chancellor for academic operations at the University of Colorado Denver, the expanded use of virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom and Skype has created “a ripe setting for unconscious bias.”

But of course. The frontier of indignation must forever expand.

“Unconscious bias includes using language, symbolism and nonverbal cues that reinforce normative social identities with respect to gender, race, sexual preference and socioeconomic status,” Bonomi said. “For example, when the virtual background of a Zoom meeting attendee has pictures of his or her wedding, it unintentionally reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between opposite sexes.”


It turns out that the reckless visibility of a wedding photo may be crushing the self-esteem out of the touchily unwed. You see, the mere sight of a photo of someone’s happy day can “crowd out the experiences of people with minoritized social identities,” albeit in ways never quite explained. Other taboos include references to “simple activities like family dance parties,” which are apparently a thing, and “gardening with a spouse.”

Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress.

There’s an unconscious bias in virtual meetings. Here’s how you can avoid it.

An MSU social science researcher discusses the

msutoday.msu.edu

 

[Oddball]

 

[depotoo]

Oh geeesh. Sounds like someone is so unhappy themselves they want everyone else to be the same.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

“Unconscious bias includes using language, symbolism and nonverbal cues that reinforce normative social identities with respect to gender, race, sexual preference and socioeconomic status,” Bonomi said. “For example, when the virtual background of a Zoom meeting attendee has pictures of his or her wedding, it unintentionally reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between opposite sexes.”

Also from the article, immediate following the paragraph which you quoted…

In fact, even a simple icebreaker — common for videoconferencing settings —can be a pathway for reinforcing dominant social norms and identities.​

F••• that. “Dominant social norms” are nearly always such for good reason. They reflect how normal people live their lives. Those who choose to live their lives in abnormal ways need to come to terms with the fact that they are abnormal. There is no reason at all why normal people should be ashamed of their normality, or be compelled to hide it.

I think it should now be obvious to most, that it was a mistake for us, as a society, to let certain classes of deviants “come out of the closet”, and escape the stigma that rightfully attached to they deviancy. It has just allowed further, more degenerate forms of deviancy to follow them into mainstream society, where now they are trying to force normality into the same closet from which the deviants escaped.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Maybe all pictures of any human activity at all should be banned because someone might find sorrow in them.

Or maybe all references to Amy Bonomi should be forever be excluded from public discussion.

 

[Disir]

I don't care. I hate Zoom with all of my heart. If you something in my work space that triggers you then it is time for you to kindly fuck off.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I don't care. I hate Zoom with all of my heart. If you something in my work space that triggers you then it is time for you to kindly fuck off.

Next zoom meeting simply hang this up behind you.

 

[Norman]

According to Michigan State University’s Amy Bonomi, director of the university’s Children and Youth Institute, and Neila Viveiros, associate vice chancellor for academic operations at the University of Colorado Denver, the expanded use of virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom and Skype has created “a ripe setting for unconscious bias.”

But of course. The frontier of indignation must forever expand.

“Unconscious bias includes using language, symbolism and nonverbal cues that reinforce normative social identities with respect to gender, race, sexual preference and socioeconomic status,” Bonomi said. “For example, when the virtual background of a Zoom meeting attendee has pictures of his or her wedding, it unintentionally reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between opposite sexes.”


It turns out that the reckless visibility of a wedding photo may be crushing the self-esteem out of the touchily unwed. You see, the mere sight of a photo of someone’s happy day can “crowd out the experiences of people with minoritized social identities,” albeit in ways never quite explained. Other taboos include references to “simple activities like family dance parties,” which are apparently a thing, and “gardening with a spouse.”

Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress.

There’s an unconscious bias in virtual meetings. Here’s how you can avoid it.

An MSU social science researcher discusses the

msutoday.msu.edu

Marriage is the most fitting between two opposite sexes.

Get the fuck out of indoctrinating our children. Can't believe idiots are stupid enough to pay for this shit.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I used to like Zoom.
It's kinda inner-city, but OK.