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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/115630556942027240
I boosted this because, a few years ago, I was at MS when our lab decided to organise a collection for the Salvation Army in the lobby of the building. Every gay or trans employee had to walk into the building past an advert, endorsed by the organisation’s senior leadership team, for an organisation that had a documented (recent) history of leaving people like them to starve on the street.
At the time, I was chair of the Diversity and Inclusion committee. I flagged this with the leadership team and not one of them was aware of this reputation. I was, because I am not completely oblivious to the world around me (no more than 80%).
I tried (and failed) to get them to institute a policy that the organisation should do some basic due diligence before endorsing a charity. The bar I recommended was to open the charity’s page on Wikipedia and read the ‘controversies’ section. I was deeply disappointed that a leadership team that talked a lot about diversity and inclusion decided to keep endorsing the Salvation Army and refused to institute such a policy to avoid this kind of thing in the future.