tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post7608363547503221534..comments2024-02-13T01:35:29.765-06:00Comments on MultiCultClassics: 13169: Gustavo Martinez Unplugged. HighJivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11372784671087002387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-34763595667541508442016-04-23T19:48:07.298-05:002016-04-23T19:48:07.298-05:00http://www.businessinsider.com/ipg-ceo-michael-rot...http://www.businessinsider.com/ipg-ceo-michael-roth-interview-2016-4<br /><br />“So 10 years ago we embarked on diversity and inclusion being a core part of the DNA at IPG.”<br /><br />Bullshit. Utter bullshit. <br /><br />10 years ago IPG got caught in racism accusations and they then spent a decade hiding and obscuring their tracks by hiring useless diversity execs with no hiring power, setting up their own diversity awards to give themselves diversity awards, and stuffing boards of diversity organizations with paid IPG employees to, again, GIVE THEMSELVES DIVERSITY AWARDS.<br /><br />I call foul. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-69616027813850879262016-04-23T12:40:10.788-05:002016-04-23T12:40:10.788-05:00Those comments left there are perfectly indicative...Those comments left there are perfectly indicative of my time in advertising. Past, present, future. It's ongoing.<br /><br />Now a white woman is learning the hard way that if you speak up about some seriously racist/sexist practices, first thing that'll happen is you get called a liar.<br /><br />Second thing is even if you have proof, right there in people's faces, the frat boys in advertising will find a way to discount it and pick it apart and minimize it. <br /><br />I mean my god, if even the issue of rape (with a video of the guy in question saying it on camera as proof) can be dismissed as "Well it wasn't RAPE rape he was talking about," or "You are just too oversensitive," imagine what it's like NOT being a white woman in advertising, and being an actual minority. <br /><br />Erin is afforded a relatively higher platform of believability and trust by virtue of her role and being white, and she's still getting treated like that. The rest of us who haven't achieved next-to-C-Suite level and aren't white have no chance at all. Beer_Refugeenoreply@blogger.com