[Luvs21putt]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

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.

I've been in business for 40 years and we gave jobs to those most qualified no matter what they look like. I've worked in very diverse, highly educated workforces where whites were in the minority in many areas. Ladies and gentleman, this is the result of you not paying attention to your child's education especially in college. History is repeating itself because history was not taught to them.

This is a classic Marxist play. We sit around and discuss race and meanwhile Rome is burning. You remember Rome burning right? You remember what happened to the Germans, the Cubans, the Venezuelans? Or were you busy learning to hate capitalism, this country, and most of Western society? If you talk to a Venezuelan, they will tell you that their statues, including Christopher Columbus came down, that names changed, they "defunded the police" and then their way of voting changed. Please go read what Ilhan Omar is proposing. And others.

They have put Marxists into our government and now a Marxist organization, BLM, is having us trip all over each other on race issues that although exist do not exist to the point that is going on. There is no massive systemic racism going on in 2020 but the young have been "indoctrinated" and are following the plan.

Meanwhile, BLM and Ilhan are talking about a major overhaul of the "system". What do you think that means. BLM is against capitalism as one of their many items that they care about while not really caring about large black issues (and all their money goes to the Democratic party through ActBlue not to black causes). What is anti-Capitalistic? I will let you decide.

Your way of life is about to disappear. To stop it, you must talk to your children about what is going on and about capitalism and its pros and cons. Its pros vastly outweigh its cons. These people aren't talking about Sweden or Denmark policies who have free markets and btw, all their people pay 70% taxes not just the rich. They are talking about Cuban and Venezuelan polices. Wake up. If somehow this doesn't go really south, you need to be paying a LOT of attention to what is happening in the schools. It might shock you to the core. Your kids need to be a lot more involved in what is being taught.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by DeanFL

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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.”





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

One thing is for certain, no one seems to want to take responsibility for sending that memo out, organizing that "training" or acting as a trainer.

[WesMan]

Originally Posted by Luvs21putt

I believe you would be disgruntled too if someone told you that they were going to give your job to a black person and/or that you had to write a letter discussing your white privilege. Ladies and gentleman, this is the result of you not paying attention to your child's education especially in college. History is repeating itself because history was not taught to them.

This is a classic Marxist play. We sit around and discuss RACE and meanwhile Rome is burning. You remember Rome burning right? You remember what happened to the Germans, the Cubans, the Venezuelans? Oh no, you were busy learning to hate capitalism, this country, and most of Western society. If you talk to a Venezuelan, they will tell you that their statues, including Christopher Columbus came down, that names changed, they "defunded the police" and then their way of voting changed. Please go read what Ilhan Omar is proposing. And others.

They have put Marxists into our government and now a Marxist organization, BLM, is having us trip all over each other on race issues that although exist do not exist to the point that is going on. There is no massive systemic racism going on in 2020 but the young have been "indoctrinated" and are following the plan.

Meanwhile, BLM and Ilhan are talking about a major overhaul of the "system". What do you think that means. BLM is against capitalism as one of their many items that they care about while not really caring about large black issues (and all their money goes to the Democratic party through ActBlue not to black causes). What is anti-Capitalistic? I will let you decide.

Your way of life is about to disappear. To stop it, you must talk to your children about what is going on and about capitalism and its pros and cons. Its pros vastly outweigh its cons. These people aren't talking about Sweden or Denmark policies who have free markets and btw, all their people pay 70% taxes not just the rich. They are talking about Cuban and Venezuelan polices. Wake up. If somehow this doesn't go really south, you need to be paying a LOT of attention to what is happening in the schools. It might shock you to the core. Your kids need to be a lot more involved in what is being taught.

Thanks for your comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NFRicaS]

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

Internalized (sometimes intentional, sometimes not) Racial oppression is a real thing, people...not sure I agree with everything that supposedly happened, but we as a nation HAVE to do something to get things better...it’s been 400 years, enough is enough!!

[ron32162]

If this is true? Something this dis-concerning? no effort to look into it on your part just wait till your favorite news station reports it so they can tell you what to do..

[Bay Kid]

BLM is a racist organization. Follow the money. Follow their leaders. What do they really want?

[rlcooper70]

Fear is our enemy people. Most of the comments herein are about fear. What if we just accept that there is a movement right now to make people aware of racism and leave it at that?

It is illegal to fire someone just to make room for a black person. Put the fears to rest.

Then step back and recognize that there is a movement in the country asking each of us to look in the mirror and do the best we can to make the country better.

Let's keep it simple and appreciate that we are seeing people who we may not agree with express themselves.

[Luvs21putt]

Originally Posted by WesMan

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

I do NOT believe Seattle has many white people who feel superior. I have been in business for 40 years and I haven't seen white people feeling superior maybe ever. Especially in tech jobs. The last 10-15 has been all about tolerance and I believe we made even more strides. I just retired and we had blacks, Hispanics, Indians, MIddle Eastern and just about everything and I did not see one person not looking at other people like people. Blacks were at the highest level including the C level. We had a black president for 8 years. How about Oprah, Colin Powell, Condaleeza Rice...need I go on? There is nothing "systemic" going on.
If you think what is going on is a little nuts, it is because it is a little nuts. It's manufactured. Manufactured so that BLM can further an Anti-american, anti-cop agenda. And ....it is working.

[Gulfcoast]

Usually, when there is merit in what we do, we want to take credit and be recognized for our efforts - especially in the workplace.

But no one wants to take credit for this training. Why is that? Where are their names? At least the yoga teacher took responsibility for the classes that she organized....

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

BLM is a racist organization. Follow the money. Follow their leaders. What do they really want?

I'm hearing that, not seeing that. Any factual references available. Would be interested in. PM if we are too far off topic.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by NFRicaS

Internalized (sometimes intentional, sometimes not) Racial oppression is a real thing, people...not sure I agree with everything that supposedly happened, but we as a nation HAVE to do something to get things better...it’s been 400 years, enough is enough!!

You most certainly are not pretending nothing has improved since??

As measured by.........

[Henryfrakl]

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

They will end up having the reverse effect

[dewilson58]

Probably can not watch The Lone Ranger & Tonto in Seattle.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

Usually, when there is merit in what we do, we want to take credit and be recognized for our efforts - especially in the workplace.

But no one wants to take credit for this training. Why is that? Where are their names? At least the yoga teacher took responsibility for the classes that she organized....

Gee....what if this never happened ?

The "pot stirrers" are alive and well.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by banjobob

Any thinking person watching how the "Progressives" have destroyed the Democratic party and socialist agenda of the current Democratic leaders , gotta say quit voting for Democrats.

We are now seeing the temper tantrums and screams of a dying dinosaur. Thank goodness.

Most of the energy behind their movement were punks who wanted to go wild and get some free stuff. They are now back in their parents' basements smoking pot and getting into the beer fridge.

Thankfully, the vast majority of people in our country just want to work, provide for their families, be good neighbors and live their lives peacefully.