This matches my experiences. Maybe Z’s descriptions are correct for school teachers, and if so, I don’t agree with that type of training.
Schools are a weird environment. I’m not steeped in it the way Z and my brother are, since university research is a whole different world. I could not do what they do, I would go insane. In some ways I see the worst of both govt and corporate environments.
Because they are easier to infiltrate, for lack of a better word, and they are where most people learn to think. Imagine a workforce that has been indoctrinated with critical race theory. If you are an employer, before you fire a black employee for being habitually late, you have to ask yourself if that is a decision based on an expectation that is rooted in white supremacy. A lot of school reforms are based on changing expectations to meet current results, not the other way around. It’s to avoid admitting the matriarchal experiment in the ghetto has been a failure. For years black people have said fatherless homes are the root cause of the problems in the inner cities. Boys in the Hood had that as a major theme. Now, if a black man brings that up, he’s a coon, Uncle Tom or sellout. How did that change? Why does a black man like Terry Crews get skewered by Don Lemon for bringing black on black violence up as an issue? It can’t even be talked about? What changed?
We already see with these protesters the self loathing from whites. They see their own ancestors as evil. They see their own race as evil and the cause of all evil, everywhere there is evil. They proudly declare their shame for their skin color. You don’t learn to think like that at home, but in higher education. The book White Fragility was a best seller and the author makes 12k to put on a two hour anti bias class.
By Z’s description, white people are starting training by apologizing for being white. I find that hard to believe, but it is possible. If that was the case, I would just state that it is racist to try to make someone feel guilty based on their race, and then sit down.
It’s taking place in sociology classes and other classes where race is a topic. It is getting harder for a college student to avoid these issues since it they are permeating academia and not even the hard sciences can avoid it.
You can throw on mass media and social networking onto part of the blame also.
So kids are getting a huge dose before Soc 101.
I think multi national companies are the money behind all of it.
Not all training includes that. Some does. Having to recognize your privileges is almost universally part of it. A lot of it starts from accepting that you are a racist, bigot or biased. You just need to see it. That’s why saying you aren’t a racist means you are racist. You are either a racist or an anti racist. Simply being non racist is being complicit, via silence, in racism.
Think about the definition of racism; there are actually many definitions. However, the definition which is taught in schools is that racism requires power. So a black American cannot be racist against whites since blacks don’t have power. This protects black thought by making it immune to claims of racism while white thought is always at risk of that claim.
That is a different definition than what I was taught. I was taught it was treating someone different (worse) because of their race., or speaking in a negative way about someone because of race. Had nothing to do with power.
I have heard of this definition you brought up, but I thought that was fringe. I sometimes read the root for amusement. They agree with the power being necessary for racism thing. BTW, I think the root is an extreme racist publication, but I find it funny reading what I call black breitbart. The last article I read was called “how racist would you be if you could be racist”, I kid you not. The comments section alone wasted a good hour of my workday.
We are all biased. Duh. And you should be anti racist. These are two things that seem obvious and non controversial.
Like I said before, the extreme ideas don’t really make it out of academia. My new hires started out a little taken aback by the looseness of my industrys culture, but then realized it’s ineffecient to walk on eggshells and makes life kind of shitty. The better rule of thumb is just “don’t be an asshole”.
Universities have always been bastions of progressive thought and where young people try on extreme views… Then they get into the real world and moderate a lot as they start having to deal with real world issues. I don’t know why THIS TIME it’s different?
Define it. Again, not being a racist does not equal being anti racist. And, not being anti racist makes you a racist. Think about that. You could go through your life not being a racist but if you aren’t being anti racist, you are in fact, a racist.
Here’s a real world example of how that looks in action: a bunch of people in a certain public occupation (in entertainment) posted on Twitter support for BLM after what happened to Floyd. One prominent member didn’t post anything. He was questioned about his silence and called a racist even before he could respond to why he was silent. If you don’t participate in Groupthink, you are a racist.
How does that even make sense? If thousands of students are taught this every year, how is it that none of it will stick. The founders of BLM have admitted they are Marxists. Is that an idea that didn’t make it out of academia?
Like creating CHOP (a failed city-state where a 16 year old black kid was murdered), burn down buildings, assault police and fellow citizens, tear down statues including those of abolitionists or writers like Cervantes (who was once enslaved), cancel culture, defund the police and convince everyone that not only does white privilege exist, but white supremacy is everywhere (they got you convinced).
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Anti-racist: be against racism and do what you can when you can to prevent racism.
It makes sense because thats how its always been. Universities (and young people in general) have always been bastions of progressive thought and where young people try on extreme views… Then they get into the real world and moderate a lot as they start having to deal with real world issues. I don’t know why THIS TIME it’s different?
You sure got spooked by a 3 block area of a city thousands of miles away from you. Society is made up of more than just angsty early 20yr olds using the cause celebre to be the hooligans they always were going to be.
When you accuse me of believing that white privilege and white supremacy is everywhere, you are guilty of the same intentional refusal to see nuance as the folks you are ranting against.
Best friend’s daughter has phd sociology and works for facebook.
The crap they are doing, in the real world, is so invasive - that she has all tracking turned off and only posts pics of nature or comedic memes.
The young woman holds every viewpoint that seems counter to tradition, enables it by creating methods to change society, yet tries to shield her personal life from it.
I say to disagree that real world pushes all of this progressiveness back into the college closet. Real policies are being implemented and then foisted on society by these faceless, borderless jackals.
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Maybe this is true, maybe it isn’t. Don’t know anything about this guy or his discovery center.
Seattle held ‘segregated’ training session on ‘undoing whiteness,’ encouraged staffers to forfeit ‘guaranteed physical safety’
‘Racism is not our fault but we are responsible,’ one handout declared
Christopher F. Rufo, an editor for City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty, said he filed a public records request regarding the training session. On Monday, he published copies of the materials distributed to employees in the session on his Twitter account.
The City of Seattle held a racially segregated employee training session aimed at White staffers and instructing them on “undoing your own whiteness” in order to be held accountable by people of color, according to documents obtained by a public records request.
One handout distributed in the session declared how “racism is not our fault but we are responsible." Another said White staffers must give up “the land” and their “guaranteed physical safety” in order to be an “accomplice” for racial justice.
In the email invitation to the event, the office asked “city employees who identify as white to join this training to learn, reflect, challenge ourselves, and build skills and relationships that help us show up more fully as allies and accomplices for racial justice.”
he name of the initial sender was redacted. Rufo claimed, “the City of Seattle has refused to provide the names of the diversity trainers, the budget for the program, or the video of the session.”
“I’m going to keep pushing—because this is exactly the kind of thought-policing they want to implement everywhere,” Rufo tweeted. “The new cultural revolution is being fought via corporate HR, city diversity training, and public school curriculums. When you find something like this in your community, expose it, criticize it, mock it, and reject it.”
"It’s a dark irony that the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights would host racially segregated training sessions and demand that its white employees give up their ‘physical safety’ and 'white normative behavior,’” Rufo added
Those who attended the session were shown handouts, including one that encouraged them to cultivate “networks with other white people who are practicing antiracist accomplicehood so you can talk through your struggles in the work of undoing your own whiteness.”
Diversity trainers instructed White employees in “practicing self-talk that affirms our complicity in racism.”
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FB is a heartless, unfeeling revenue machine. They will do what needs to be done to make the most money.
I think this is an example of the pendulum swinging back past center. I read through that nonsense too. I think one slide encouraged white workers to turn down promotions to give non white people a chance at the top. LOL, like that is going to happen.
I don’t know why we can’t just go with the most defendable position of treating people as equals?
While enabling, indeed shaping opinions for clueless idiots.
They are in the idea exchange business, not making pots and pans.
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Article is misleading. This was a voluntary, unpaid training session. None of this was forced on employees, nothing was demanded, this was not thought policing. Based on my past experiences with the City, the employees are highly unmotivated to do anything beyond the minimum required, so i doubt attendance was high.
But, yeah, i disagree with most of what was apparently presented there.
I guess i dont really understand your point? FB uses algorithms to drive traffic and strategically place advertisements. According to some megacap firms looking for SJW cred, FB is not doing enough thought policing.
Wrong. The definition is that you must be actively fighting racism. Even though being a non racist is a way to actively fight racism. But those that make up these definitions are under-educated and rely on fear to overcome their gaps in common sense and logic.
Again with the passive aggression. Telling me I’m spooked won’t elicit the defensive response you want. A 16 year old boy was murdered, most likely by CHAZ security. Maybe it’s easier for you to dismiss that as normal (see how passive aggression is really done). By the way, I could just say you seem awfully invested in defending and downplaying CHAZ in spite of not being one of them.
Or murderers apparently.
Accuse? You admitted it.
You pretty much said exactly what i said for the definition “do what you can to prevent racism”.
You are right, I shouldnt myself use passive aggressive responses to your passive aggressive swipes. Go high when they go low, etc.
Nice conspiracy theory about who killed that kid. I just think its stupid how hard you and others have fallen for the CHAZ/CHOP boogeyman. But, then again, you go for conspiracy theories if they fit your narrative.
Yes, that group of hooligans includes murderers.
When you accuse me of believing that white privilege and white supremacy is everywhere, you are guilty of the same intentional refusal to see nuance as the folks you are ranting against. Willful ignorance, or trolling… im not sure.