[TheMoyers]

It is not surprising to see it is Seattle. Go to You Tube and type in "SEATTLE IS DYING" and you will find several versions of a documentary done by the local ABC affiliate. Even a year ago, it would have been a good idea to eliminate the city and start over.

[JayLeininger]

Microsoft probably provided the PowerPoint presentation.

[GOLFER54]

I presume a class about ‘undoing blackness ‘is not on the school’s agenda.

[lwmilo]

Who thought up all that BS?

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by Heyitsrick

Interesting...if someone is so curious about the who/where details, one might think such a person would actually do his/her own research. What am I saying...that's asking too much when it's so much easier to just invoke FOX News.

Here's the original article. It didn't take long to find it: Cult Programming in Seattle | City Journal.

How about the email invitation, itself? Again, not hard to find at all:



Questions about who/how many, etc., could be addressed to the author of the city-journal.org piece, but are those really the salient questions here? One might think that a governmental entity presenting this would be the real issue, but I guess if only a few people responded it's a case of no harm, no foul, right?

Here's the department that sponsored this training - the Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI)

Thank you for researching and presenting the actual FACTS of this thread. Interesting reading. Reminds me so much of the training sessions we had to take on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace during the Equal Opportunity movement.

They were mandatory attendance in the company I worked for and they unfortunately led to many crass jokes, but the underlying reason for them was worth while.

I believe they are all in the HR handbooks and have to take place from time to time. It may even be a Government requirement.

I can only assume that a disgruntled employee brought this training session to the attention of Fox who jumped on it for obvious reasons. Pity.

[allsport]

I have a child that lives there and the city is very white with lots of people who feel superior to other races. It is white because it is far north, most jobs are tech and the African Americans are behind(no fault of their own) in this field and there are lots of people from China in the area. The young population is very multicultural but the old people, just like here are very uneducated. I read about the training in a source other than the Faux news media and it seems like a great training. There are lots of people here that could benefit from the training. Unlike the local Seattle news, the crisis of the city is sensationalized outside of the city while the residents with lots of education say to me, what are you talking about. The area was like a love fest and that is now gone. The shootings that took place, take place in any large city and do not usually make the news. Much ado about nothing.

[jbrown132]

Originally Posted by DeanFL

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I understand that some may say...well, this can't be true - it's reported by Fox News.
But - where else in the Mass Media would something as gut-wrenching as this be published. Seems as if so many cities are INTENTIONALLY creating division and racial strife.


SEATTLEPublished 3 hours ago
Seattle held 'segregated' training session on 'undoing whiteness,' encouraged staffers to forfeit 'guaranteed physical safety'


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.

The session took place on June 12, as protesters took part in the so-called "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" in the Capitol Hill district.

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.

According to his screenshots, the Office of Civil Rights hosted a two-and-a-half-hour “Training on Internalized Racial Superiority for White People.”

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.”

“We’ll examine our complicity in the system of white supremacy – how we internalize and reinforce it – and begin to cultivate practices that enable us to interrupt racism in ways to be accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folks within our community,” the email invitation said.

The 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.”

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.”

“Racism is not our fault but we are responsible,” one bullet point declared.

In order to be considered “accomplices,” White employees must give up “comfort,” “guaranteed physical safety,” “expectations or presumptions of emotional safety,” “control over other people and over the land,” and “relationships with some other white people.”

White employees were also urged to give up “niceties from neighbors and colleagues,” “the certainty of your job,” and “accepting jobs and promotions when we are not qualified, including racial equity jobs.”

Employees were presented with a flowchart that demonstrated how “white people keep the system going” by being socialized “to cause harm to POC,” “justify why we are superior and have been wronged by POC,” “use anger, self-righteousness and defensiveness [to] mask fear, shame, or guilt,” “show up small and inauthentic,” and finally are “unable to imagine a way forward that comes from a place of humanity,” thus reinforcing the status quo.

Those who attended the session were also shown a datasheet titled “Assimilation into Whiteness,” which claimed to document how those of Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian or Irish descent still classify as White.

Employees were taught how to “interrupt” their whiteness by being “honest and implicate yourself either in the moment or in past experiences in which you acted or thought similarly.”

“Don’t blame others. Don’t distance. Don’t make yourself seem 'better.' None of us is,” a handout said. “You are also white and what someone else did today you may do tomorrow.”

A two-column chart also listed characteristics that defined “Internalized Racial Oppression.”

“Internalized Racial Superiority,” was defined by perfectionism, individualism, imposition, arrogance, paternalism, silence, intellectualization, control, violence, comfort, appropriation, cognitive dissonance, objectivity and “anti-blackness.”

Meanwhile, “Internalized Racial Inferiority” was defined by colorism, isolation, protectionism, addiction, self-doubt, self-hate, rage, shame, denial, assimilation, ethnocentrisms, distancing, exaggerated visibility, hopelessness, apathy, erasure, invisibility, “anti-blackness.”

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Seattle held '''segregated''' training session on '''undoing whiteness,''' encouraged staffers to forfeit '''guaranteed physical safety''' | Fox News

And they wonder why the division between the races is widening.

[NotGolfer]

I'm appalled at what's going on in our country...politics aside. There "is" a definite adjenda going on and many people are too blind to recognize it. I have a close family relative who lives in the Twin Cities and attends a "multi-cultural" church---that has been teaching white privilege and how people need to apologize for that. It's NOT just in Seattle or corporate America. Think how quickly in 5 or 6 short months our lives have changed. NOT getting into a debate here---but what were y'all doing last fall compared to now??

[Heyitsrick]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

Reminds me so much of the training sessions we had to take on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace during the Equal Opportunity movement.

They were mandatory attendance in the company I worked for and they unfortunately led to many crass jokes, but the underlying reason for them was worth while.

I believe they are all in the HR handbooks and have to take place from time to time. It may even be a Government requirement.

I can only assume that a disgruntled employee brought this training session to the attention of Fox who jumped on it for obvious reasons. Pity.

I think you're missing the point here. I've had mandatory sexual harassment training in my company, but it's not targeted to just one gender. It's for everyone. Anyone can harass, particularly if they are in a position of power over the victim.

As for the gratuitous comment about FOX, that's your political bubble, apparently. In my view, the "obvious reason" is that this is a ridiculous example of government pushing an agenda, and an agenda that's defining and targeting one specific group. You know...kind of like racism.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by jbrown132

And they wonder why the division between the races is widening.

Yes. As long as the majority continue to discuss the isolated cases of interest to biased politicians, media and special interest groups.......who act and are treated as though they represent the majority interest or cause.

[jbrown132]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Interesting....you feel what we have here is real news.

Who came to this ? How many came to this ? Where did the people work who came to this ? Did anyone come to this ?

I think you are spewing the "company line" with no facts

Your missing the point. Even if no one came the fact that the city offered it promotes racial divide and could be construed as a slap in the face to many.

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by allsport

I have a child that lives there and the city is very white with lots of people who feel superior to other races. It is white because it is far north, most jobs are techand the African Americans are behind(no fault of their own) in this field and there are lots of people from China in the area. The young population is very multicultural but the old people, just like here are very uneducated. I read about the training in a source other than the Faux news media and it seems like a great training. There are lots of people here that could benefit from the training. Unlike the local Seattle news, the crisis of the city is sensationalized outside of the city while the residents with lots of education say to me, what are you talking about. The area was like a love fest and that is now gone. The shootings that took place, take place in any large city and do not usually make the news. Much ado about nothing.

Could you make any more confusing remarks?

The city is "very white" but "lots of people from China" who do not identify as white. The younger population is "multicultural", (again not white), the people here are "uneducated" despite the fact that everyone here was able to plan and prepare to live in this great community?

That is some strange logic but if you believe it, who am I to argue?

"Much ado about nothng" to summarize the much ado about a lot of personal bias?

[mike234]

what news source do you watch?

[WesMan]

Originally Posted by mamamia54

My cousins daughter has two masters degrees and another degree for Special Ed. She was told she might have to give up her job so they can give it to a black person. She was also told if she is able to keep her job she will have to write a letter about being white privileged. What ever happened to earning and working for you have in life. Are we all supposed to just give it away, bank accounts, houses, jobs, etc. A crazy world right now for sure.

Tell her to get out of there, this is just the beginning of her to lose her job, go somewhere that will respect her!!!!!!!!!

[WesMan]

Originally Posted by allsport

I have a child that lives there and the city is very white with lots of people who feel superior to other races. It is white because it is far north, most jobs are tech and the African Americans are behind(no fault of their own) in this field and there are lots of people from China in the area. The young population is very multicultural but the old people, just like here are very uneducated. I read about the training in a source other than the Faux news media and it seems like a great training. There are lots of people here that could benefit from the training. Unlike the local Seattle news, the crisis of the city is sensationalized outside of the city while the residents with lots of education say to me, what are you talking about. The area was like a love fest and that is now gone. The shootings that took place, take place in any large city and do not usually make the news. Much ado about nothing.

Nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!