Death by corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), also known colloquially as ‘wokeism’, is unfortunately becoming a theme.
If you have been following the story of a missing deep water tourist submarine run by a company called OceanGate®, perhaps this part of the untold story might provide some ironic context for the current crisis.
“The search for a missing Titanic tourist submersible continued Wednesday as experts fear the watercraft may have only a day’s supply of oxygen left” (more).
The CEO of OceanGate, the company that has created a tourism industry around underwater exploration, is a man named Stockton Rush. Two years ago, Mr. Rush was interviewed about his company and how they operate; his outlook on the personnel he hired might explain the crisis.
According to Mr. Rush, he intentionally did not want to hire a certain kind of submariner expert for his corporate endeavor, because that would only bring ex-military submariners into the company. In his own words he explains how he did not want to hire “50-year-old white guys“, and instead preferred a more diverse and younger workforce to represent the operational face of the company. Diversity, equity and inclusion was the priority. VIDEO at 27:10, WATCH:
https://youtu.be/YH0qRx5eYkY?t=1630
Given the legal liabilities now present, the video will likely be scrubbed. However, there is a certain irony in the decisions around corporate human resources and operational priority, given the fact that all the rescue missions are being led by “50-year-old white guys.”
[…] U.S. and Canadian crews began searching for the underwater vessel Sunday after the 22-foot submersible, named Titan, lost contact with a support ship while carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic. (more)
Grandma’s rules apply to further commentary. I digress.
Kiss your internet goodbye.
time for the rebellion to lose comm.
what act were they doing when the pipeline was bombed
And why are they now forcibly taking property from farmers in South Dakota?
It may not be “taking” as we know it, but when the Sheriff assists a company that has no legal right to go onto someone else’s land and install a deep well digger to do “tests” — without getting permission — we know the time to kiss our internet goodbye is soon.
Patriots ready to go and back the land owner are told, ‘Don’t bring guns, they’ll be setting you up for something worse than January 6th.’
Steal someone’s land, with the “law” standing by on the side of lawlessness, and things aren’t going to get pretty.
‘Scuse me, WHUT? Missing Titanic tourist sub “homemade”? Was already “lost” once before?
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/06/20/scuse-me-whut-missing-titanic-tourist-sub-homemade-was-already-lost-once-before-n559191
Yeah. I’m calling it… This “adventure” was essentially autoerotic asphyxiation.
https://www.insider.com/lost-titanic-sub-maker-oceangate-warned-hull-safety-2018-2023-6
“Lochridge said he was told that no such scans had been done”
But you can bet the diversity quotas were met.😒
Lockridge is a 49 year old white guy. They could have listened to him and still met their diversity quota.
They fired him, instead.
Just sayin’….
As I’ve often said and see, they had more money than brains.
The wealthiest person I have ever known was worth around $100M when he passed. He was a high school dropout and completely self-made. He would say, “It don’t take brains to spend money”. Apart from real estate (main source of wealth), he owned two Anheuser-Busch distributorships. I often imagine him rolling over in his grave now
Excellent example! Thanks for posting.
Apply this to air traffic controllers.
Enjoy your flight!
Actually they did. Under Obama they did away with the traditional competence based entrance exam in favor of DIE. The two colleges training people for ATC careers raised a big stink and demanded some guidance so they could train properly — it was a big scandal atthe time overlooked by MSM. And yes, the skies did get sporting. Remember the crash in LAX where one airplane was cleared to land on another one (1991) ? That was a quota hire (they later promoted her to tower chief which at least got her away from airplanes). Nonetheless, Obama admin scrapped the requirements for DIE.
(Note: David Koch escaped the burning wreckage and turned to philanthropy in a big way)
recently Air Traffic Control cleared a FedEx plane to land on a runway occupied by a Southwest plane preparing to take off at Austin airport. It came within feet of colliding with it.
Diversity is our strength
Sadly, in this case it looks like Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. DIE
DIE is actually the order in which these BS concepts were introduced. After everyone was sick of 20+ years of Diversity training, Inclusiveness came about, until more recently when Equity was added to the recipe for disaster. I’m afraid you may be right in that DIE played a role in this situation.
Clever…in a creepy way.
Uh, Stockton Rush looks like…a fifty-year-old white guy. Maybe he should have stepped down…last year.
What a dick
He put peoples lives at risk and apparently his own
He put peoples lives at risk but he risked only his livelihood.
Wrong! He’s in the sub, too.
GO woke…GO soaked.
I think the 50 year old
white CEO is going to lose some moneys and
In a few years will some future “adventure” company be selling submarine tours to view the wreckage of the OceanGate sub?
“Welcome aboard, comrades! Your submariner operator for today’s adventure is an 11-year-old black-Hispanic-Native-American-Pacific-Islander Muslim gay self-mutilating transgender with the latest version of SkyNet Cybernetic “Save-The-Planet-and-Eradicate-the-Human-Virus-and-Cancer Implant. Enjoy the ride!”
Hopefully it will be advertised as the final resting place of DEI, ESG and diversity hiring in general…..
Per this article, Stockton Rush is a descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independence: Dr. Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton.
Shame.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/missing-titanic-submersible-ceo-sf-family-18162447.php.
What a disgrace to the memory of the great Dr. Rush.
They will be spinning in their graves for some time to come….
‘I went on Titan – it was a SUICIDE mission’: German who paid OceanGate to see Titanic wreck in 2021 says he was ‘incredibly lucky’ to make it after one sub ‘didn’t work’, there were ‘electrical problems’ and a piece of the vessel FELL OFF
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12218125/German-paid-OceanGate-Titanic-wreck-2021-says-incredibly-lucky-make-it.html
P3 aircraft earlier were picking up banging noises every 30 minutes in the search area of the missing sub.
Some wag somewhere replied that “They are hammering out Morse code that says “S E N D O L D W H I T E M E N.”
LMAO
Me too! Hilarious!
Seriously, however, maybe they are unaware of the SOS rhythm, which would make their banging noises CLEARLY from them:
bang (long pause) bang (long pause) bang (long pause); bang bang bang; bang (long pause) bang (long pause) bang (long pause); bang bang bang; etc.
Otherwise written: – – – … – – – …
Perhaps only 50+ white men would know what SOS sounds like, which would include those trying to rescue them.
I’m still unclear how the AIRCRAFT were hearing these UNDERWATER bangs.
The P-3 aircraft would drop sonobuoys which have microphones mounted within, as well as transmitters which relay the sounds picked up by the mic to ovhead aircraft.
Strange that, SOS in morse is did did did daw daw daw did did did
Of at least it was when I was a Merchant Navy Radio operator.
But then everything has changed for this (very) old white guy.
Hey there VegGOP – keep an open mind. Some of us 50+ white (and probably black) females had Dads who served in WWII and taught us basic SOS and Morse as children. One heck of a lot more useful than current children’s literature. The one time I used it was when my car was stuck in a perilous patch of ice in the middle of the night on a steep rural road. I bleeted out S-O-S in Morse on my horn hoping for help. Did nothing but alert every animal around – eventually managed to extract myself and canine to start to hoof it home alone — another WWII era lesson. Met the Vietnam vet clearing roads at 0400 partway who helped. What a coincidence who you meet on the front line actually doing things !
I’m sure the souls who died so tragically on the Titanic did not appreciate the prurient gawping of rich tourists on their gravesite. I would consider it a warning. Respect the dead. Don’t profit from it.
We need to seize the FITHY Marxists lingo and change DEI to DIE, which is clearly more accurate.
FJB, & F John Durham
And F Blackrock.
Statement seen today: “We used to respect people who were willing to risk their lives for the sake of exploration. Now we openly despise them and laugh when they die. The old attitude was much healthier. This new attitude is sick and depraved.”
My reply: “That was back before DIE diversity hires were permitted and encouraged to add unnecessary risks.
It’s a Brave New Normal now and will only accelerate as the Competency Crisis causes the collapse of Western Civilization (and there are those, smarter than me, who believe it’s already happened).”
“Now we openly despise them and laugh when they die. “
It’s human nature to feel compassion for the innocent.
When people open their mouths and utter insults to their fellow man, and subsequently suffer from the ramifications of their poor choice, innocence is lost…and so is much compassion.
Didn’t Shackleton dismiss one of his crew because he couldn’t handle the pressure ? Single minded focus on competence in the old days.
Would “Under Pressure” by Queen be inappropriate at this point?
Yes. Great song to be preserved for impending civil war
Deleted. For now.
Stocktons last words I always wanted to be buried at sea
For sure, a dude that surfed in Iceland and being kind and fun (engaging personality) qualifies for operating a submarine!
I really want my heart doctor to have those same exceptional experiences and qualities when he does heart surgery on me or a loved one! Said NO ONE EVER!
Where do I sign up? (Ughhhh)
What a JA. Good grief!
The people who signed up…baaaaa-baaaaa!! Same people who voted for The Zer-O Hussein!
Can’t fix stupid!
I’d hire Captain Nemo before I’d hire Madonna to pilot my deep dive subs but Ocean Gate knows way more about what’s important in crewing subs.
“Death by corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), also known colloquially as ‘wokeism’, is unfortunately becoming a theme.”
One way to think about this is since some very rich people are in the sub, perhaps it might make people rethink their crazy belief that DEI is the only thing important in a company.
Another way to think about this is that at least it wasn’t a plane load of innocent people fireballing on a runway because of a companies rabid focus on DEI as the only important thing in their company.
I don’t know the politics of those trapped in the sub so I will reserve my sympathies.
For those that are on the DIET – diversity, inclusion, equity, and tolerance – I have none.
For this CEO, I have less than none.
At least, it appears, the CEO is going down with his ship.
Not sure I would call it a ship, but he is clearly going down.
First, prayers to He who made the oceans for their rescue, if not too late already.
Second,
“OceanGate”
My, the corporate name is kindof appropriate, what with that syllable, “gate”.
The Woke Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate company
is on this submarine and will never be coming home.
I say Good Riddance to this Woke CEO.
I heard they hit the same iceberg as the Titanic
I’m going with a giant squid dragged them into the depths.
“Gunnars mom” is 100% correct.
Ahrnauld the Failed Guhvnatuh would do a bigger number on that thing than he did on conservative California.
Cmon you guys. The DEI is INSANE but these people are dead/dying. Where’s the humanity here?
Where’s the humanity?
The utter stupidity which has gripped western society has resulted in untold deaths, rampant autoimmune disorders (apparently leading to early demise), amoral/immoral governance, abridgment of human rights, despondency and suicide, not to mention destroyed standard of living/earning potential with off the chart inflation and debasement of currency.
It ALL was brought about by political correctness, which elevated the incompetent and pushed aside the competent.
As a result, mayhem across the board.
Accidents happen, tragically, and it is part of the human experience. And, then there are darwinian experiments gone successful.
It’s all just comic relief, not malice. It is a tragic situation, but it speaks to the intentional degradation of our society by none other than the uber-rich, who happened to have occupied the missing sub.
The families of these passengers probably want Stockton Rush saved so they can off him themselves.
The passengers were aware of the risks, the word “death” comes up a lot in their waivers, and these people seem to need to always find the next adrenaline rush. Odds were never on their side.
Alive and well.
A first world effort has to have to have 50 year old white guys somewhere in the mix.
I just want to note here that a carbon fiber cylinder is fantastically strong in resisting internal pressure (carbon fibers in tension) but not at all so much in external pressure (carbon fibers in compression, essentially relying on the plastic resin component for strength).
I think the sub went “pop” some time ago. One sonar expert stated that the banging sounds are just debris falling off the decaying Titanic wreck.
They were aiming to go 12,000 feet down in a vessel made of plastic resin? 😵
….reinforced by carbon fiber cloth…
Actually, it was wound with prepreg CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) filaments, not woven fabric. I did not see any 45-degree (helical) passes in the video I watched, so it doesn’t have a lot of strength against tube bending.
I worked with developing the 787 airplane. Every single cubic centimeter of structure had to be ultrasonically inspected to prove it didn’t have voids or cracks, which are typical problems. There’s quite an art to building with CFRP, you don’t just throw it together and call it good unless you’re making cheap auto dashboards. The sub people are on record saying there was no NDI (Non-Destructive Inspection) done on the tube. This is criminal.
Done right, CFRP is stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum. Done wrong, it’s as weak as wet sand. I wouldn’t go for a ride to the bottom of my local lake in that deathtrap.
If a cylindrical steel vessel 36 in. in diameter and 8 ft length were designed per ASME code, it would have to be over 8 in. thick if the external design pressure were 5400 psi. (Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code VIII-1, 2013)
Can you imagine the weight of such a cylinder? Somewhere around 9 tons !!!
I doubt the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer material was as strong as steel nor even close to 8 in. thick.
….if it did happen thataway…it was quick…a few milliseconds slower than a lightening strike….one can’t even blink that fast
Lightening travels at 186,000 miles per second
Just sign this waiver…”you understand you might die.” Now pay up, sucker.
So, in other words, a group of 50-year-old, highly-skilled, ex-military white guys couldn’t be marketed as a “fun” crew for a tourist experience. That is preposterous, ageist and dumb. It looks like his prejudices may have killed him, in the end.
yesterday’s Grandma, “Less said easiest mended.”
today’s hip, older & woke Grandthey, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to me.”
Please forgive, sometimes this world gets the better of me.
I like the old school version.
LOL!
He’s white! He should have given his entire company to BLM, if he wants inclusion! He should donate all his wealth t o the homeless! Such a hypocrite! Funny how white rich people want diversity, but forget they are white and rich!
It looks like his business has gone under. The depth of his miscalculation has sunk him. If perhaps a white-skinned mermaid were to reach out to rescue them, I’m sure he’d drop his diversity religion like a lead anchor.
You bad
Sharif don’t like it…
Rock the Casbah
Rockin’ the Casbah
😂 😆 🤣😜🥳😅
It is well known amongst rescue workers that humor is one way of relieving great despair. I sympathize for their situation, nothing funny about it.
Guess he might be regretting this right about now.
One thing for sure….it would truly suck being one of them….
Still hoping that they get out alive….
Nothing new about dumbing down an industry. I’ve been dealing with it in several industries I’ve worked in over the last couple decades. Those at the top want more profit however to get that you have to work efficiently, expand the company bring in more clients which in turn brings on more employees cutting into the profits. Big companies routinely get rid of the old timers first because they make the most and they can hire 3 younger people to replace the old timers for the same amount. This would go on ad Infinium however eventually you get to a point where the lack of experience becomes a hindrance to the organization it’s process or in this case the safety and security of it’s clients. Most industries have already reached a breaking point where dumbing things down has hurt them but they refuse to acknowledge it. They have a few people that carry most of the weight in certain departments keeping the company just a bit ahead of catastrophic failure and that’s good enough so long as the profits keep coming in. DEI is the final straw driving the Cadillac off the cliff. They don’t see it because pushing DEI they get funding and kickbacks which backfills their profits but it’s not going to last forever.
I work for a large corporation doing capital intensive and complicated stuff…things all worked better when our parent corporation was smaller and less intrusive…when management was closer to our processes…came up from them…relationships developed over decades
The office types just really don’t get where the money is made…and saved…
And where plant reliability actually comes from.
My organization is far better than most and I commend mgmt for that and I receive respect in turn from them…
We are repeatedly recognized as one of the best managed corporations in USA…for good reason…but the money is made by boots on the ground…
Operations.
The bigger the corporation the less efficient it becomes.
Kent you are 100% spot on ! What scares me is that the elite school grads with the money and power not only do not understand Operations, they detest it. Look down on it – mostly for fashion reasons I think – and honestly believe there is nothing to it. This is genuinely scary !
Some have suggested:
The corporate greed led US industry to decimate itself shifting to cheaper offshore sourcing, starting in the late 1970’s. China saw the opportunity and built its global industrial supply chain behemoth now finishing that decimation.
Compounded by the competency decimation of identity class quotas,
starting in the 1960’s and accelerating with DEI.
(Subject of the OceanGate tragedy.)
And political corruption driving government debt past the point of no return.
Now the engineered [virus+shots] bioweapon system, serving the plandemic ends blighting the US Bloc on all levels.
As observers fill reader comment threads, the sinking of the US Bloc continues apace, while the new global hegemon rises in the east.
Some suggest this is all part of the CCP 100 Year Plan, basically exploiting inherent weaknesses of the US to slowly subvert and bring it down. In the spirit of Sun Tzu’s book The Art of War. Even things like DEI, which is part of ESG pushed by global finance – why are they pushing this? (You connect the dots.)
I’m betting those fifty year old, white, ex military guys recognized the dangers and REFUSED to work for him.
Special Counsel John Durham, Rep. Adam Schiff Clash Over 2016 Trump Tower Meeting
https://www.theepochtimes.com/special-counsel-john-durham-rep-adam-schiff-clash-over-2016-trump-tower-meeting_5348504.html
Oops…posted in wrong thread by mistake. Mea culpa.
…too bad shifty isn’t on the sub
…or every other California politician
This nation would be far better off without the influences of pelosi…feinstein…schiff…newsom…
To state it simply they are all trash and should have never been allowed influence in Wash DC…
They are corruptive influences and have corrupted our national politics enthusiastically along with diabolical media support….
We don’t need them….they undermine everything good about America.
And our GOP puppets are selling and have sold us out to enrich themselves and their families exactly how the bidets and clintons and ryans and boehners have….
Their names do not deserve capitalization.
I wonder how many more wokester lemmings will cast themselves into oblivion while squealing about 50 year old white men. Hopefully all of them.
I read somewhere that OceanGate doesn’t want the people who go on these submersible trips to the Titanic grave as tourists – they are to be called “Mission Specialists” . . .
I think they get their own special jackets with insignia –
but how can they be “doing” anything as “Mission Specialists” when the pilot himself is using a gaming joystick type of device? It isn’t like they are like those guys all working at those desks at NASA, Mission Control – in their shirts with short sleeves, often – and pocket-protectors and they looked like they all knew how to use slide rules, certainly and were fluent in Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics, Geology, Crystallography and just all kinds of things (I KNOW, having grown up in a family where we watched all the NASA launches).
Now these guys in the sub are “Mission Specialists” but they don’t even have a seat or a desk to work at as they work on their assigned sets of calculations – what DO they do actually, as “Mission Specialists”?
In our foray into the news this evening, there was a story on Fox with that nice young lady Lauren Green who does stories about faith (one of the few people we still like on Fox) where a physicist who was on such a trip and got stuck down there and thought for sure he wasn’t getting back but miraculously DID . . . he told of his own faith experience, that he had been an atheist most of his life but before the trip in the sub had embraced faith – so when he was down there, he prayed, mainly getting ready to not survive – and now if I understood him, he said he thinks that the grave of the people who perished when the Titanic sank should be respected and not treated as a tourist destination.
It would surely be a magnificent miracle if the people on the OceanGate sub DO survive and live to tell the story of praying and surviving . . . now that they have everyone’s attention at least for a few minutes!
Jacques Cousteau is rolling over in his grave.
I have no empathy or sympathy for these people. The only reason anyone cares is because there was a billionaire on board. He could afford something far better than this toy of a submarine if he wanted to see the Titanic. Can’t fix stupid.
I will be so happy when this story goes away. Isn’t it about time for them to be out of air?
I am not completely w/out empathy, I do still feel bad for all those Russian sailors that drowned in their submarine years ago, that was tragic.
I did a poem many years ago that was about that Russian disaster and the columbine massacre, which happened around the same time. In the case of Columbine, it was a window to how badly our kids are being led by a horrible education system, that their minds could turn so dark; while the Russian disaster showed Russia so utterly paranoid, that any other nations offering to help might possibly steal submarine secrets, that both US and UK were rejected, when both had the means to do something…There WERE sounds of those in that doomed submarine pounding in panic.
Of course ironically, some years later our military were betrayed by a U.S. government under Obama and Clinton that rejected going in to rescue Ambassador Stevens in Libya, instead imprisoning an innocent film editor (admittedly woke so there is also irony in that) for a year for supposedly having caused a riot with his film…which had not even been seen by anyone in Libya.
Wokeness taken to a new level.
Another irony is that it appears that Stockton Rush is a 50 year old white guy.
I think Misfud’s in the sub.
The Epoch Times have identified the people in the sub. It appears that Stockton Rush is one of them. https://www.theepochtimes.com/underwater-noises-and-banging-sounds-heard-in-search-for-missing-titanic-tourist-submarine_5346280.html?utm_source=Goodevening&src_src=Goodevening&utm_campaign=gv-2023-06-21&src_cmp=gv-2023-06-21&utm_medium=email
I’m nominating this arrogant twit for a Darwin Award.
Proof that “Diversity” can literally kill you.
Just a few years ago statements like that would be prima facie evidence of unlawful intent to discriminate in employment on the basis of the protected classes of age, gender, and race.
The Biden regime is in the process of setting aside all traditional American values, norms, traditions, laws and even the Constitution and replacing them with…nothing.
The term is “nihilism”.
Explorers and sailors, for many centuries, put their faith in god and undertook enormous risks.
Robert Scott headed off to the the South Pole, knowing his expedition was under-supplied. He and his men starved to death before making it back to base camp.
Wokeism is a new and radical religion. Stockton Rush, the head of OceanGate, was on board this submarine. He was prepared to undertake great personal risk in the name of wokeism.
It will be, it is being demanded of all of us to undertake great personal risk for the sake of this new, extreme religion. You will be required to depend upon under-qualified pilots and ship’s captains and medical doctors, and objecting will see us punished as bigots and racists.
Sending your children to school is now an exercise in submitting them, sacrificing them to the god of wokeism.
And like all gods, the god of Wokeism is a jealous god. The Christian God must stand aside and submit, too.
Well Mr. Rush and his “equity and diversity” policies have not only killed his business, but have also killed 5 people. I suggest a prison sentence for purposely exposing people to risking their lives by thinking he ran a competent business. Obviously he did not.
He already got his prison sentence. He was one of the 5 in that sub.
I told my son that there is an angel in heaven named ‘Karma’, and she’s in charge of poetic justice.
I imagine he wishes he had the best people possible trying to fix things on the surface. Too late for that though.
With the mishaps they’ve had before, WHY would he continue? Then again, progressives seem not to learn from their consequences either, witness San Francisco and Chicago. And Portland Oregon, and Baltimore, and…
I can only speak for Portland, it is by design.
I’m sure you can safely presume it’s ALL by design, although not at the hand of anyone who has to live through the hell it’s causing.
He’s dead too! He was on the sub!
Woke down under.
No wonder the titanic tourist submersible got lost several times before during dives.
Woke bud light types were the personnel woking for the joystick company.
was budlight used as ballast?
CEO did not want to hire 50 year old white guys.
He wanted a more diverse workforce.
This is a picture of what is happening in America today.
Bud light types are trying to sink America.
Diversity instead of competence kills, and this won’t be the last time by any means….
Nor was it the first. Five years ago, a pedestrian bridge in Florida collapsed, killing six people and injuring ten others. The company which constructed the bridge had diversity front and center on its webpage, although unsurprisingly, the webpage was altered and the boasts of diversity were removed shortly after the tragedy. Did we learn anything or at least did anyone even comment on the possible connection of choosing diversity over merit and/or experience and the bridge collapse? Not that I could find.