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| rdfs:label | - Sensitivity Training
- Sensitivity training
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| rdfs:comment | - For years, people have become increasingly offended by everything they can possibly find to complain about. Most of these people who have caused others to believe we need this sort of thing, have no sense of humor or spine. If you lived through the 90s, you remember a time when most people weren't so whiny. But this was also when it was popular for various ethnic groups to complain about sports team names being possibly racist. But even then, you could make comments and jokes about various groups on television without fear of being labeled anything beyond something light.
- Usually this program is enacted in big organizations such as large companies or some government agencies. A program that is intended to make the participants more aware of social issues in the work environment, (such as sexism, or bullying) and to teach how to act in a politically correct manner. Often comes with ridiculously arbitrary rating systems where some behavior is called level 1 or 2 or color coded green or yellow or red card. Often if someone is being nasty, he is asked to stop, "or do you want to go through sensitivity training again?" Examples of Sensitivity Training include:
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| abstract | - For years, people have become increasingly offended by everything they can possibly find to complain about. Most of these people who have caused others to believe we need this sort of thing, have no sense of humor or spine. If you lived through the 90s, you remember a time when most people weren't so whiny. But this was also when it was popular for various ethnic groups to complain about sports team names being possibly racist. But even then, you could make comments and jokes about various groups on television without fear of being labeled anything beyond something light.
- Usually this program is enacted in big organizations such as large companies or some government agencies. A program that is intended to make the participants more aware of social issues in the work environment, (such as sexism, or bullying) and to teach how to act in a politically correct manner. Often comes with ridiculously arbitrary rating systems where some behavior is called level 1 or 2 or color coded green or yellow or red card. The subjects never like these programs, are always bored while enduring them. (Even the people whose life would be made better by such programs sometimes prefer being bullied over the sensitivity training.) The sensitivity instructor tends to be a Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher who cheerfully throws out slogans like "labels disable". If male, the instructor will probably give off a bit of a Camp Gay vibe. Often if someone is being nasty, he is asked to stop, "or do you want to go through sensitivity training again?" Sometimes, sensitivity training is what employees must go through if they have nothing else to do, the group will then be very motivated if an order comes in. In real life these items are entirely the company covering their asses against potential lawsuits, though the fact seems to rarely pop up in fiction. This is not necessarily a case of Political Correctness Gone Mad, and also not necessarily an other kind of parody of PC related issues. But even if played straight it is still meant for semi-humorous effect, and the above mentioned characteristics are still present. Examples of Sensitivity Training include:
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