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Sierra Club: “Diversity is our strength!” *collapses*
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: sniggley https://archive.ph/4ASMX
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html |
Date: November 7th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: Dunedain cowboy (πΎπ£) enjoyed their climate change and runaway "immigration" doublethink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410064) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410089) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:47 PM Author: sniggley I used to be a big Sierra Club supporter. They lost my support overnight when I learned about David Gelbaum bribing them to abandon their old immigration positions and permanently support limitless immigrants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410111) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:50 PM Author: ethereal connection David Gelbaum, you say? Sounds like a a nice earnest German-American sort of name, but we should probably check his Early Life just to be sure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410128) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/164/843/80a.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410580) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:52 PM Author: ethereal connection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410712) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:08 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410603) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:52 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410715) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:05 PM Author: Bronus Swagner tbf this kind of shit worked for Cesar Chavez, and every subsequent shitlib cause has faced the temptation to just embrace identity politics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410182) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:06 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410185) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: sniggley I thought Cesar Chavez was a strong opponent of immigration. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410199) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:08 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410602) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:49 PM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410703) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: chad gundam (π§) "Mr. Jealous" wtf lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410065) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410136) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: cannon “The club hired Mr. Jealous, its first Black executive director, that year to stop that slide, but his tenure accelerated it as accusations of sexual harassment, bullying, and overspending piled up.”
Wow, who could have seen that coming? |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: chad gundam (π§) https://d6jsmp119dcf9c.archive.is/4ASMX/5236e33eda3b9aff33b3b1b0551a7dd2eb2bc900.webp
this guy is a man o' war verified octaroon lmao |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: ethereal connection I thought this was the dad from Fresh Prince of Bel Air for a second and got really confused (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410138) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Mr. Content absolutely incredible sentence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410194) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 5:02 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410761) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: goy orbison Why does the article constantly use "Mr. Trump" ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410087) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:47 PM Author: emiliosexual TITCQ. They don't refer to King Charles as Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410119) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 1:50 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410131) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: goy orbison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410201) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon *bats away ur mountain* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410584) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:52 PM Author: ethereal connection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410716) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Mr. Content alright whos gonna change their moniker to Mr. Jealous tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410192) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:09 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, “As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed as just being concerns for a limited group of elites, we lose,” Loren Blackford, the group’s new executive director, said in a statement. “We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement.”
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:10 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, jfc, it's paragraph after paragraph with gems.
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Its secret was focus, according to activists involved. The club put its energy behind the single, measurable goal of closing all of the country’s 500-plus carbon-spewing, coal-fired power plants. Armed with more than $120 million from billionaire Michael Bloomberg, they used lawsuits, petitions and protests to convince regulators and utilities that coal plants were too dirty and expensive to keep operating.
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:12 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, First, they sought to transform their own workplace, demonstrating a commitment to fair wages.
The club agreed to expand the number of staff covered by an employee union, and to raise union members’ salaries by an average of more than 30 percent over five years. Even the union was surprised.
“We were thrilled,” said Larry Williams Jr., who was president of the union at the time. “I had people calling me crying, saying, ‘Because of your contract, I was able to buy my first bike and bike to work,’ or pay my rent.” |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:12 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Because of increased salaries, health care costs and additional hiring, labor costs would double between 2016 and 2024, according to an internal club budget document.
At the same time, the club asked its supporters to agree with positions farther from the environmental causes that had attracted them in the first place.
It issued an “equity language guide,” which warned employees to be cautious about using the words “vibrant” and “hardworking,” because they reinforced racist tropes. “Lame duck session” was out, because “lame” was offensive. Even “Americans” should be avoided, the guide said, because it excluded non-U. S. citizens.
After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the group called for defunding the police and providing reparations for slavery.
The club even turned on its own founder, John Muir, with Mr. Brune saying the environmental icon had used “deeply harmful racist stereotypes” in his writings about Native Americans and Black people in the 1860s. |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:13 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Jim Dougherty, an environmental activist and Sierra Club director, said he had raised objections to a 2019 budget that called for the equivalent of 108 full-time employees to work on a “national equity investment.” Most of those were not new hires; rather a refocus of the responsibilities of many current employees.
The club said that was meant to address the “problematic lack of diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement and to make the Sierra Club a welcoming and supportive place to work for all employees.”
“I said, ‘We have two F.T.E.s devoted to Trump’s war on the Arctic refuge, and we have 108 going to D.E.I., and I don’t think we have our priorities straight,’” Mr. Dougherty said, using the acronyms for “full-time employees” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Mr. Dougherty said no other board members agreed, and the budget passed.
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:13 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, In 2022, a group of union members asked the Sierra Club to “follow [its] values of antiracism and justice” and cancel sightseeing trips it operated in Israel, in protest of the country’s treatment of Palestinians.
“Palestine is an environmental issue from our standpoint,” Erica Dodt, the president of the Progressive Workers’ Union, which includes Sierra Club employees, said in an interview. “People are a huge part of our environment.”
The club postponed the trips. But Sierra Club officials said the club heard a backlash from donors including Mr. Bloomberg, the major funder of “Beyond Coal” who also gave to humanitarian causes in Israel. His staff declined to comment. The Sierra Club said he is still a donor.
Within days, the Sierra Club reversed itself and announced more trips to Israel.
The back and forth meant few people were satisfied. The next month, the group’s count of champions fell by 130,000, one of the largest decreases in a single month. |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:14 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Ms. Malone thought that someone else in the chapter had filed a complaint. She recalled an incident when a club staff member had scolded her for saying that the club should lobby Colorado’s legislature for more protections for wolves.
“One of the staff said, ‘That’s fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?’" Ms. Malone said. |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 6:43 PM Author: cannon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49411001) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:49 PM Author: Nazca Redlines During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410705) |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:11 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, By broadening the mission, they also hoped to recruit more young people, who they thought cared as much about social justice as coal plants.
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Date: November 7th, 2025 4:39 PM Author: Nazca Redlines It's interesting that right off the bat, in the lede, they describe the Sierra Club's [former] "singular focus on climate change."
Even that is relatively new to the Sierra Club, which, at it's core was--and maybe still is--an environmental preservation organization. Climite change can be a part of that, but it's far from the be all, end all. The Sierra Club used to focus on prerving and protecting and enjoying the natural environment. Whether that was for clean water or clean air or climate change or just because it was the right thing to do was secondary. |
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Date: November 7th, 2025 6:33 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, so, Sierra Club got skin-suitted years ago and then got skin-suitted again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794621&forum_id=2.#49410989) |