{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6827792f50cf1b42f426466b/6830d40f381499796bed8122?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Sacked for being a man. How did we get here?","description":"<h3><strong>A leading advertising firm one day fired five workers - just because they were men.</strong></h3><h3>How on earth did our biggest companies decide it was OK to openly discriminate against men?</h3><h3>How did diversity policies - that began under JFK in the era of segregation - so lose the plot?</h3><p><br></p><p>This is the first episode of White Men Can't Work! - a five-part series...</p><p>In which award-winning documentary-maker Tim Samuels fearlessly investigates what it’s like being a man in today’s woke workplaces.</p><p>And how a radical form of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) managed to capture our biggest companies and institutions.</p><p>Costing billions, trampling over free speech, fairness and men’s mental health - all whilst turning out to be counterproductive.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>IN THIS EPISODE </strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Tim meets Chas Bayfield - a top advertising creative whose career was flying until one day his agency decided it was too white and male.</p><p>What followed was a brutal person takedown - from which Chas is still recovering.</p><p><br></p><p>With Harvard professor Frank Dobbin, Tim charts the roots of the diversity movement back to the era of 1960s segregation.</p><p>But this is a story of how an anti-discrimination movement born in that era of Jim Crow and JFK became co-opted by a divisive ideology - blowing its George Floyd moment to make that much-needed difference.&nbsp;</p><p>Merely questioning diversity dogma is curtains for your career post-MeToo and Black Lives Matter - but men from the US and UK now speak out on this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>The five-part series will reveal:</h3><p><br></p><ul><li>The huge mental health toll on men - who are anxious about doing or saying the wrong thing at work</li><li>The ‘reverse discrimination’ that men now face in their careers - and the crazy micro-aggressions that can cost jobs</li><li>Impact on our emergency services</li><li>Smarter ways to tackle discrimination that actually work</li></ul><p><br></p><h3><strong>WATCH THE SHOWS ON YOUTUBE</strong></h3><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjRscUKOADVnqIEGjfbMLw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjRscUKOADVnqIEGjfbMLw</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>ABOUT TIM SAMUELS</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Tim has reported around the world for the BBC, National Geographic channel and Free Press - winning three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival. He is the author of the best-selling book on masculinity Who Stole My Spear? (published in US as Future Man). </p><p><br></p><p>Despite having been Race In The Media journalist of the year for his work exposing racism, Tim tells the show he fears he’ll be labelled a ‘far-Right loonpot’ and canned for daring to question DEI.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Visit Tim's site: <a href=\"https://www.timsamuels.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.timsamuels.com/</a></p>","author_name":"Tim Samuels"}