The LA wildfires have left the diversity industry in ruins

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-22 20:43:11 | Updated at 2025-01-26 07:40:25 3 days ago

The LA wildfires have left the diversity industry in ruins
Telegraph ^ | January 14, 2025 | Michael Deacon

Posted on 01/22/2025 12:26:07 PM PST by grundle

Deputy Chief Kristine Larson makes two comments that are downright mind-boggling.

First, she airily dismisses those who worry that women aren’t physically strong enough to be firefighters. People, she sniffs, often say, “You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire.” To which, apparently, she retorts: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

What’s that supposed to mean? That it’s your husband’s fault if a female firefighter is incapable of lifting him? What’s the poor man to do, if he finds himself trapped in a burning building? Embark on the world’s fastest ever crash diet, until he’s light enough for her to pop him under her arm like a Mulberry clutch?

Even more absurd, however, is Ms Larson’s other argument in favour of workforce diversity. Because she claims that, when a fire engine or an ambulance arrives at your home, “You want to see someone... that looks like you.”

Really? I don’t know about LA, but in Britain I doubt that anyone calling 999 says, “Oh, and by the way, I refuse to have my life saved by a white fireman. I insist on being rescued by a fireperson of colour. So, if you don’t have any currently on staff, I’m happy to wait till you’ve trained one up.”

That would be mad enough. But imagine if the caller were white. “When I get to hospital, I demand to be treated by staff that look like me. So white doctors and nurses only, please. None of these black or Asian ones…”

Most people, I suspect, would consider such a demand to be more than a touch racist. But in the Alice in Wonderland world of DEI, mere logic doesn’t get a look-in.

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1 posted on 01/22/2025 12:26:07 PM PST by grundle

To: grundle

Just let lesbiens ruin everything.

2 posted on 01/22/2025 12:28:58 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: grundle

Imagine needing an ambulance and some gross, fat, butch POS like that comes waddling up. You thank God, you look nothing like that grotesque pig. Next time send a human. Any human.

3 posted on 01/22/2025 12:31:22 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)

To: grundle

Leftists are shallow, plain and simple.

4 posted on 01/22/2025 12:35:36 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)

To: grundle

1. He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.

Perhaps, but can you carry him out regardless of whose fault it is. It a dodge on your part, so your answer is "No, I can't."

2. [Deputy Chief Kristine Larson] claims that, when a fire engine or an ambulance arrives at your home, “You want to see someone... that looks like you.”

First, it's "who looks like you" and second, if the choice is burning to death or being saved by someone who doesn't look like you, I'll bet most people pick door number two.

I would think someone would have to work very hard to make two statements that are more stupid than these two.

5 posted on 01/22/2025 12:38:26 PM PST by econjack

To: grundle

“He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

That much, at least is true ... the wrong place being LA and California.

6 posted on 01/22/2025 12:39:57 PM PST by sphinx

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