"CIA mocked from all sides over new 'woke' recruitment video"

[orangecrush]

From the Independent, UK

"The CIA has been mocked from all sides for posting a recruitment video which has been accused of being “full of woke propaganda”.

The two-minute video, posted on Twitter on 28 April, features a 36-year-old Latina CIA officer who uses words like “intersectional”, “cisgender”, and “millennial.”


Critics said the CIA was trying to get “woke” points with its audience and that it was pandering to progressives.

In the video, the officer also uses phrases like “imposter syndrome” and tells the viewers that she had “generalised anxiety disorder” and that she embraced herself “unapologetically” and that she refuses to internalise “misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.”



Conservatives have blasted the agency for going overboard with wokeness. The video was part of a series called Humans of CIA on its YouTube channel. The video first appeared on YouTube on 21 March this year."



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-recruitment-video-backlash-wokeness-b1841656.html%3famp


It is an OUTSTANDING recruitment video, and makes me proud of the U.S. intelligence community as an American (that Trump hated with a passion.)

"Conservatives", of course, hate any woman who uses words with more than 3 letters.

Hey, Independent, remember this guy?

The C.I.A. sure does.

Bugger off.

[rickyhall]

1. I'm seen this before when the "Establishment" tries to be hip.

Never works, always hilarious.

[Eugene]

2. Starts out okay but goes off the rails 45 seconds in.

"Not a box checking exercise..." in a video packed with buzzwords.

Lots of red meat for the wingnuts to howl at.

[orangecrush]

4. I like it.

CIA thumbs nose at knuckledraggers after 4 years of tRump.

[ansible]

3. It just tries way, way too hard

[luckone]

5. I don't find anything funny to mock or think it's over done but I also don't think it's

trying to relate to old white people so of course it may seem unrelatable to many who have a hard time with differences be it age groups or current common terms or other cultures..
CIA is not recruiting all white men clones anymore not sorry
Sad if it’s being mocked from all sides as the post sez
More shade on wokeness the new substitute for political correctmesss that joe six packs can’t tolerate

[StarfishSaver]

6. Thank you

"Political correctness" is really just no longer being able to insult other people with impunity. "Wokeness" is really just being sensitive to the reality around you.

Both of those things freak some people out so they must be mocked and discouraged.

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. +1

[orangecrush]

11. +1

[applegrove]

7. CIA needs to look at things from all angles. Anxiety is a different pov.

So is being transgendered. No two brains are alike but perhaps you really need vastly different brains to get to the best big picture to advise the President.

[orangecrush]

12. C.I.A. is recruiting intelligent people

Not cowboys.


Agree with you completely.

[Raine]

9. I doubt they'll recruit many if any with that commericial. 👎 nt

[orangecrush]

10. They will get the right people

With that kind of recruitment


Great way to filter out right wing nutjobs.