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At university DEI exercise, had to pick 5 ppl for spacecraft after apocalypse

This was a few years ago as part of the training they make y...
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burst out laughing at: "we'll need that" in space
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Date: July 10th, 2024 2:57 AM
Author: cerise misanthropic wrinkle locale

This was a few years ago as part of the training they make you do when becoming an adjunct prof; not technically a DEI-named event, per se.

All the incoming instructors are given a slip of paper describing a person (I was a hispanic single mother who used to teach elementary school but had to quit because of post-partum alcoholism), and the room was split into two teams, each of which took turns picking 5 ppl apiece to put on two spacecrafts that would save these ppl from the apocalypse and leave them to repopulate the species.

Because I apparently lack a strong self-preservation instinct, I pointed out that we should pick 4 young women and 1 man -- in my defense, I figured that women were higher on the intersectionality hierarchy than men, and I also thought it would be seen as okay to be advocating for my own character -- and it was made immediately clear that this whole mode of thought (i.e., rational thinking) was *NOT* appreciated.

We ended up picking a MTF transperson, a menopausal woman in her 50s, and 2 dudes selected for their skills, one of whom was LGBT (but I guess will have to get over that shit, no?). A single early-20s woman, who ended up on board by the lucky chance that she was indigenous and politically active (and "we'll need that" in space), and who I guess will be mitochondrial Eve for the whole species.

As I was watching this process unfold -- and I swear to God it was being taken seriously by the participants who ended up being the decisionmakers (although, obviously, every white male / STEM person knew to shut tf up and nod along) -- I remember thinking I needed to make a thread about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826783)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:01 AM
Author: Sapphire brunch regret

'nodding along' to the graveyard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826787)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:18 AM
Author: cerise misanthropic wrinkle locale

A long-haired, visibly greasy, clearly gay dude who I swear to god couldn't have been more than 5'5" asserted to the group that "new technology" allows FTM transpersons to get pregnant so there is no reason to take that into consideration.

He was probably serious (and just retarded; I should mention this place isn't exactly harvard), but the statement is more interesting to ponder as a Dare. No one took him up on it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826801)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:23 AM
Author: Sapphire brunch regret

the universities were always viewed as a place to silo these freaks. it was thought that they would be harmless there and just teach Moby Dick to retarded 19 y/os. it was a misake. they should all have been Pol Potted in a field.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826804)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:28 AM
Author: cerise misanthropic wrinkle locale

Yeah. While it's hard not to view this experience as a metaphor/microcosm for how progressivism warps decisionmaking in more-important contexts,

the real lesson that should not be overlooked is that post-secondary education is complete and utter shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826810)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:04 AM
Author: Exhilarant pink candlestick maker cruise ship

I participated in one of these in high school and it ended a lot like you described.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826791)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:43 AM
Author: cerise misanthropic wrinkle locale

What's funny is that there's a real (rational) case for racial diversity here, particularly given that our fake population obviously did not exhibit the same racial correlations that the IRL population does (although it would have been hilarious if they passed out like 7 african-american slips and they were all like "gangbanger," "on welfare," "absentee father of 6," "goes fishing off side of overpass every weekday," "incarcerated", etc.).

But no: it's like rationality itself was the enemy to be defeated, and diversity is merely a weapon in furtherance of that end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826824)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 10:32 AM
Author: swashbuckling avocado stage preventive strike

i suspect it might not be so much “like” that as “literally and specifically” that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827325)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:13 AM
Author: stimulating godawful library masturbator



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826797)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:18 AM
Author: boyish wine indirect expression

lol at wagecucks so bitchmade they sit and take this shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826800)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:21 AM
Author: vivacious piazza clown

Excellent 3am poast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826802)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:22 AM
Author: appetizing smoky place of business rigor

burst out laughing at: "we'll need that" in space

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826803)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 12:57 PM
Author: black startling fortuitous meteor pit



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Date: July 10th, 2024 12:59 PM
Author: Cyan racy messiness meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827698)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 3:34 AM
Author: onyx hall round eye

This could easily be the next show on Netflix. Including the same cast.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826818)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 5:01 AM
Author: Drunken Stain



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826880)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 5:30 AM
Author: black startling fortuitous meteor pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826899)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 5:49 AM
Author: Lascivious Orchid Casino

Fuck the species bro. Only China will survive anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826902)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 5:54 AM
Author: Lascivious Orchid Casino

Neil Stephenson did a book on this called Seveneves. It's 180. The near menopausal POTUS shoots herself up into space and manages to crap out one baby. Her narcisstic descendants, ostracized by the descendants of the other 6 Eves who numerically dominate, then proceed to wage space war on the rest of the species.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826906)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 6:28 AM
Author: haunting market

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826928)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 9:36 AM
Author: dashing fuchsia space potus

bookmarked, ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827197)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 10:27 AM
Author: cerise misanthropic wrinkle locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827315)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 11:03 AM
Author: appetizing smoky place of business rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827390)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 11:07 AM
Author: Lascivious Orchid Casino

Book ends with the space humans discovering the alpha males who didn't go up into space survived in bunkers in Alaska and built a totally different but vastly more primitive civilization under ground from the enlightened space civilization. Stephenson had to shit on the men folk that way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827398)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 6:57 AM
Author: Learning Disabled Faggotry

I remember having to do this too and it was peak insanity. I feel like this was widespread following George's death, and we talked about it quite a bit on xoxo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47826964)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 9:09 AM
Author: Lascivious Orchid Casino

I never had to do this but there is no universe wherein I would not have gaped the libs in the room mercilessly were I to do this. Fuck staying employed. I would not bend knee even in a fictional exercise. Lib Nazis can suck it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827157)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 10:59 AM
Author: Bateful bossy theater

I did this in HS, back in the aughts, and our school counselor was exasperated because no one was taking it seriously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827380)



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Date: July 10th, 2024 12:01 PM
Author: swashbuckling avocado stage preventive strike

imagine the mental landscape of a person, ostensibly trained in teenage psychology, and who has undoubtedly seen this exact same scenario play out in class after class, year after year, who becomes newly exasperated when it unsurprisingly happens again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553055&forum_id=2#47827511)