I can’t help it. I’ve got to say something.
Follow this link and tell me who is missing.
Why would they be so blatant about the exclusion? What would happen if the missing demographic quit in protest? (Which they wouldn’t do, of course.)
Doesn’t “diversity” include them, too???
(Hat tip: Go Pundit Go by way of Wizbang)
Update (10/12): I think some people are missing the point here. White men appear on the hostage rescue page, and I linked to it with the word quit to make a point. They seem to be doing the heavy lifting while “minorities†are propped up on main recruitment page. Make of it and this update what you will, but reading the entire post and following all the links would be helpful.
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Well I thought they had part of one’s face in the pic, but I think that’s an Asian guy. Maybe those two hands holding papers are one of the missing demographic?
They OBVIOUSLY TRIED to put everything but WHITE MEN in the pics.
Does this mean crime is only committed by minorities, so they don’t need any White investigators
?
Aw, LaShawn, don’t worry; all us white guys are riding in that chopper, donchaknow
Great to know that the FBI is recruiting Muslims, though; makes me feel SO much safer…
/sarcasm off
I should have said “Does this mean crime is only committed by minorities and women, so they don’t need any White male investigators
?”
We don’t need headshots. We’re behind the scenes, pulling strings, conspiring. Lulling you into a false sense of security.
Playing golf.
Hey Doc, the guy with the wrap on his head is East Indian. They mention that Sunjeet is “a member of America’s Sikh community“.
I guess since he’s part of the “America’s Sikh community”, he can’t live in a non-Sikh community? I just thought the wording was interesting. It kind of reminds me of the Leftists that cry the “nation within a nation” rhetoric.
Great to know that the FBI is recruiting Muslims, though; makes me feel SO much safer… (/sarcasm off)
In all seriousness, it should make you feel safer.
If you want to get a man on the inside of a suspect network (say, a mosque or islamic “charity” organization), you don’t want your agent to look like Clay Aiken. Call me crazy, but I think he would kind of, you know, stand out.
I’m sure they are recruiting Muslims, though. I see advantages and disadvantages there. Perhaps they should recruit Middle Eastern-looking men, rather than Muslims per se. The key question is, “Where do your loyalties lie?”
“Where do your loyalties lie?â€
I know a question they could ask. Someone could easily lie, but they could ask applicants if they agree with certain verses in the Koran. Like the one that says Muslims should subjugate Christians and Jews.
Oh but if they asked that, then they might be discriminating based on religion…
But I will say from background I won’t talk about, that in the intelligence community people going for certain levels of clearance are asked questions that really would tick off Liberals. I just hope they’re still asking those kinds of questions plus some new ones considering the current threat.
Of course, we are not being hit over the head with this:
http://www.fbijobs.gov/116.asp
All us Crackers are down in Gitmo whopping A**.
All us Crackers are down in Gitmo whopping A**.
Based on the training pics, I guess you are right. Apparently only white guys are skilled enough to do the real work.
I noticed the same thing when I looked over my 2nd grade daughter’s textbook. It’s like they were avoiding whites on pupose. They certainly included everybody else.
I actually think it’s amusing, watching government agencies go through such contortions to follow the PC guidelines.
Well, it was amusing until I realized that I’m paying for that idiotic behavior.
Where’s Agent Mulder?
Ah, I see, they’re not all ‘white’, so they must be ‘politically correct tokens’
Is there any better way to insult the employees in the pictures?
La Shawn,
The guy with the headgear is a Sikh, which is not really Hindu or Muslim. “Mideast looking men” who are Christian and who can speak Arabic are hard to find. Most have left the Mideast and are living in the USA or in the UK.
If the FBI needs people with certain skills, including Arabic, say so openly. There is too much PC (political correctness) and not enough
common sense.
James Barber
Well the disabled lady is white, I think? So they killed two birds with one stone when they included her photo.
Or perhaps she’s a post-op tranny so technically they considered her “male enough”.
Forgive me, I’ve had little sleep so far this week.
FYI, I didn’t say the man pictured on the site was Muslim. I was responding to a commenter.
Well the disabled lady is white, I think? So they killed two birds with one stone when they included her photo.
No, Carol, she counts as disabled and female. What’s missing is white men. I don’t “see anyone like me”, so according to liberal dogma, the FBI must not want anyone like me.
The same thing happens in other sections of the government as well. You should hear how some of my friends in the intelligence community laugh and grouse about the PC-ness of their agency (where I would think the prime criteria would be getting the job done right and fast).
Could it be they’ve filled that quota?
No, Carol, she counts as disabled and female. What’s missing is white men. I don’t “see anyone like meâ€, so according to liberal dogma, the FBI must not want anyone like me.
http://www.fbijobs.gov/322.asp
http://www.fbijobs.gov/116.asp
Not a burqa in sight.
Ummm . . . I don’t get it. Isn’t this a recruiting page? Doesn’t recruiting mean, like, advertising? I mean, like, reaching out to people you might want to, you know, reach? (Meaning those you haven’t already reached?) Market penetration and all that? Does anybody really think the FBI has a problem reaching white males?
I am pleased they are reaching out to the Labrador demographic.
#21
Shade, those FBI employees are not white enough for the Confirmed Right Wing. They are obviously liberal plants. They are also obviously only put there to offset another demographic which was ‘included’ to be pEEECEEEE.
The moonbats will have pictures of ANY colour except white. So just stop it with the facts, ok?
Why can’t you just accept the Truth. The Conservative Truth.
There is a rogue middle eastern man in the FBI. And he was planted by liberals. Time to question where his real motives lie. And talking of lie, I just saw a picture of someone with Asian features. Another liberal lie. Slippery slope.
Regards,
JohnD
I think it’s highly important that the FBI recruits Muslim/Middle Eastern men and women whose loyalties lie with the US and are able to penetrate terror cells where white, black and Hispanic people would never be allowed to go.
I also think the FBI’s desire to have a workforce that reflects the racial makeup of our nation is not a bad thing at all, as long as it doesn’t trump hiring the right people for the job.
That being said, the jobs webpage is just absolutely insane PC-think run amok. They might need to a hire a few more white guys over the next few years, after all. Beyond that, the over-emphasis of minorities is a bit patronizing to minorities, I would think.
Anyway, thanks for picking up the post, La Shawn.
Great post La Shawn.
Unfair charge! I see a white guy’s hands in the main picture behind the dog…
Diversity!
http://www.fbijobs.gov/322.asp
I notice that Peter, the only white male at this link is shown twice. Either he is a supervisor who likes to hog the scene or they are so short of white men, it was necessary to use him again.
Oops! I failed to see that there is another white male. I guess I should clean my glasses better. Two out of three I guess is better than two out of two. 8^)
Aren’t the guys doing the hostage rescue white?
Yeah. That’s why I linked the word “quit” to the page. They seem to be doing the heavy lifting while “minorities” are propped up in the recruitment posters. – Admin
http://www.fbijobs.gov/321.asp
on the Meet our people page they do have several white males in the mix and that page seems a little more reasonable. The webmaster needs to use that as a guide for how to get some appeal to everyone in the country.
Wow, it is just pictures. So what? I never knew pictures meant so much. People are so sensitive these days about race. If you do not have white people complaining about not enough white people in pictures, then you will have black people complaining about the same thing. Why should it matter? When I pick and choose clothes, I could careless what color the models are. If I like it, I buy it. Isn’t all of this kind of counter-productive to wanting a true colorblind society? I am starting to think that there a many on the right who want a non-discriminatory society towards white people and not really caring if there is still discrimination towards other races, because the only true discrimination, these days, is the one against whites, right? Some of you might as well be the white versions of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. I guess the black folk who support you are the equivalent of the white liberals who support them.
I suggest that we all trade in our Race Card for a Visa or MasterCard.
#32 “because the only true discrimination, these days, is the one against whites, right?”
Roye, I think you nailed it.
The reactionary ‘liberals’ who only target racism against blacks are (to me, at least) the ideological twins of ‘right-wingers’ who claim that it is the whites who are hard-done-by.
There will be no colourblind society until people stop playing the race card, and people stop being racist. Unfortunately, both are profitable for the politically motivated.
Even MORE unfortunately, politics is profitable to those who have no ethical concerns above making whoopee with the ‘truth’.
The Other Side did it.
I think the whole argument against the FBI recruiting pictures is ridiculous. Who cares.
Why is everyone making an issue out of nothing and making fun of the people listed on those pages? What kind of attitude is that? This is stupid. I’m about reading to drop this site from my feed…
“Why is everyone making an issue out of nothing and making fun of the people listed on those pages?”
Because if someone *isn’t* white anglo-saxon looking, or have a teace of olive skin, or black skin, or tanned skin, or something Un-White, then they must be a ‘token’ pawn for the ‘Other Side’.
I think the issue is not serious, but rather simply silly. Silly that those responsible for that recruiting page felt the need to ride the PC diversity bus right over the cliff.
MikeM said
No, Carol, she counts as disabled and female. What’s missing is white men. I don’t “see anyone like meâ€, so according to liberal dogma, the FBI must not want anyone like me.
This sounds as if you would not consider a disabled white man as “someone like you”.
Black Labs rule! I used to bring my Lab to work and he would do nothing all day, just like any other government worker.
Hostage rescue = “heavy lifting?” Well, maybe that is one way of looking at it. I don’t see it that way – I think people in such jobs would have to be smart, quick at decision making, and of course very fit. Brute force alone could end up with dead hostages. But I’ve never done the job, nor been rescued from being a hostage, so maybe my perception is not accurate.
My comment was really more directed to some other comments, and I did read the post, and did follow the links.
As I pondered the matter, for a while I *was* going to say that I didn’t think it mattered, who was on the front page, but then started thinking of other things, like college brochures or church leaflets, and I realized that I’d find it weird if a regular state college, for example, had four photos on the front with none of them white (if the student body had a majority of white people), even though whites were featured inside, or a church showed only “minorities” on its leaflet front, if the church was mostly white or just really mixed, even if whites were in photos on the inside. What is on the front does matter, especially when you are emphasizing one thing and trying to de-emphasize another. Your point made more sense to me as I put the same idea into different contexts.
I wish I could edit my comment. LaShawn, I didn’t mean your point didn’t make good sense already, just that I myself understood it more as I thought about it in different ways. sorry
It’s just the most egregious example of the “diversity” image industry. Insurance brochures, college bookstores, you name it…plastered with photos that convey absolutely no content except “diversity.” Few people realize how anti-white the practice is (even though whites are probably the main orchestrators).
The country was CREATED by white Europeans – along with a black minority. Our culture is Euro-American – and all of us who are products of that culture should want it to remain so. Now, we have decided as a society that the white majority has to be diminished and destroyed to make way for the new order.
Once you realize this, it becomes painful to see these images on a daily basis….
LaShawn – The FBI is just one example. Check out any major corporation’s “Careers” page. If you can find a white, male face, he’ll be far in the background. AT&T, GE, and Verizon all fit the FBI example.
Jeez you guys. LaShawn, you should know better. Let’s not fall into the same stupid pattern of being sensitive about perceived discrimination. If they want to display seventeen pictures of Arabs or whatever for whatever motive, who cares? Remember the sensitivity that whites didn’t understand, like, I call my friends or even my brother “boy” sometimes in casual talk, as in, “come on boy let’s get goin’ here.” But if I said that to a black friend, I know I would get an evil look, and I might be naive enough to wonder why. My point is, that we can’t go around nitpicking peoples’ motive or thoughts. Just campaign for the good things, and don’t over analyze things like those pictures. I hope the average person would look at that page and never think someone was missing. I hope we come to a day that these things are ignored.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I wanted to point out the skin-deep “diversity” hypocrisy. That’s what I do. Sensitivity is not the point of this post. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, that should be clear. If you’re a new reader, I suggest you read several posts before commenting. – Admin
It’s not just the FBI. My corporation just made us do ethics training and I couldn’t help but notice that all the unethical villains were white and all the ethical saints were minorities. What a joke that an ethics training program that counsels against racism and sexism in the workplace is itself racist and sexist.
Evidently everything in the corporate world is being funneled through a PC filter. It’s on TV, too. You can be sure that the white guy is going to be the dope when ever the cast is mixed. If it’s a family show, the wife is always some kind of genius while the father is a dunce who can barely tie his shoes on his own. That’s part of the reason I don’t watch those shows anymore. I wasn’t being entertained. I was being indoctrinated.
I’ll be honest. I’d like to see some shows that are all white. I’d like to see some shows that are all black. I’d like to see some that are black and white mixed together. I’d like to see some that are neither black nor white but something else entirely.
What I don’t want to see is the same cookie-cutter politically correct formula imposed on every friggin’ piece of media force-fed to me to endlessly affirm a particular point of view like I’m watching TV in North Korea.
Tantor
Hostage rescue = “heavy lifting?†Well, maybe that is one way of looking at it. I don’t see it that way – I think people in such jobs would have to be smart, quick at decision making, and of course very fit. Brute force alone could end up with dead hostages. But I’ve never done the job, nor been rescued from being a hostage, so maybe my perception is not accurate.
Comment by Karen — 10.12.06 @ 3:29 pm
maybe that’s the point. why use minorities as window dressing… but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, use white men? ’smart, quick at decision making, and very fit’….. so where is everyone else, or are they not ’smart, quick at decision making and very fit’? but they are good enough for window dressing and smiles.
what if the missing quit? Well so what. Last I saw there was no shortage of white men. Just look wherever there is wealth, privelege and status and you will find them slapping each other on the back and having great fun.
Greg,
You mean like over at Cosby’s house or Oprah’s house or professional sports or Colin Powell’s place or Condoleeza’s home or Vernon Jordan’s or at BET?
Do you liberals never tire of race-baiting?
Tantor
#47 “Do you liberals never tire of race-baiting?”
Tantor, it would appear that America has entered a new, defining era in race-politics/race-baiting?
1: Complaining that NON-WHITES are unfairly discriminated against is automatically labelled a ‘liberal’ position, and
2: Complaining that ‘WHITES’ are unfairly discriminated against is automatically labelled a ‘conservative’ position.
Considering the subtle degrees and variations of skin-colour, don’t any of us find it odd that we are scanning a carefully selected webpage for evidence of more than (??%) caucasian skin?
For what? To prove that the evil ‘liberals’ are ruining the world with ‘political correctness’?
Why not grab one of those non-white employees of the FBI, drag them into the media spotlight, and then accuse them pubicly of being a politically correct pawn of the left, without real world ‘white’ merit?
Because that is exactly what is being done here.
Shade, for instance, matter-of factly linked to a load of ‘white’ people’s pics on the FBI website.
And here’s the rub; No-one can ’see’ those white people, because we are all so fixated on the ‘evil liberal minority-skinned pawns’ on the linked page.
No, no race-baiting here, move along. Nothing to see. The right and the loony-right never race-bait. Nope, never. Anyone want to buy the Panama Canal? I have a deal on this month?
Erratum:
I meant to type, of course, ‘publicly’, not ‘pubicly’
Although in the world of politics, both have proved to capture the lower-mindset.
Yup. Been there, seen it, got the thin envelope.
Way back when, after leaving the military — during which I had *trained* with the NY HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) and did many of the things that agents do in training, I’d applied to the FBI, the Secret Service and a raft of other law enforcement and counterintel agencies.
Ultimately I was accepted by the Foreign Services’ DSS (but opted for law school instead), but not before being turned down by all the rest. In almost every case, the SAIC (special agent in charge — of the interview at least) would put his hand on my shoulder and sadly saw, ’sorry son, if you were a minority or a female we could hire you in a heartbeat.’
It wasn’t just civilian government that was doing this http://www.adversity.net/fedagency_news.htm, it was being ram-rodded through the military (see e.g. Kara Hultgren).
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