[Heyitsrick]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Gee....what if this never happened ?

The "pot stirrers" are alive and well.

You mean the scheduled training and email invites that went out about it? The "gaslighters" are alive and well here.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Gee....what if this never happened ?

The "pot stirrers" are alive and well.

The problem is it could have happened. My guess is that the truth is somewhere in between. Maybe this was a proposed training that never actually occurred?

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

The problem is it could have happened. My guess is that the truth is somewhere in between. Maybe this was a proposed training that never actually occurred?

Maybe the unicorn stole it.

[krisbogey]

If it’s only on Fox, there is a reason for that.

[junemarie]

Originally Posted by John41

A new public school requirement in Seattle is a course called “How Mathematics Oppresses Minorities”. So I am not surprised by what you say. Big Tech is complicit with BLM in dehumanizing and denigrating whites so when blacks take their jobs and terrorize them with rioting and destroying their businesses it is not criminal and is justified. The dehumanization of white people by BLM is exactly what Hitler did to the Jews in Germany. And blacks who make anti semitic remarks are given a free pass. Beware!

Well said!

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Jayhawk

Maybe the unicorn stole it.

I think that this was a bit too much for even the craziest of the crazies at the top to approve. It was proposed but never actually budgeted for - my guess.

You can't make this stuff up.

[jimh24444@gmail.com]

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

I have two daughters living in Seattle. While this is certainly something this city would do, I am going to check it out with them and report.

Thanks for the info.

[DeanFL]

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.

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I live in a "city is very white with lots of people who feel superior to other races. There are lots of people here that could benefit from the training."

Yep, The Villages Florida. Gee, too bad the Villages Enrichment Academy is suspended due to Covid. You know, " the old people, just like here are very uneducated." The "White People" surely could utilize a course as the Seattle, to make us all aware of our "Whiteness".

The TV course could have a catchy title to ensure all "Whities" enroll, like-

"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"

...it took me so long to get all these words together for others to comprehend.
You know I'm "very white, old, not multicutural, and uneducated."

Much ado - TALK ABOUT A RACIST posting you made. I'm offended and appalled.
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[LowOnCash]

So you don't believe this happens - I guess you don't see this is the same thousands of university whites marching in the middle of interstates harassing drivers or camping out de-facing buildings and tearing down statues and you're having a problem beliving there is some type of training for all this?

[BostonRich]

Originally Posted by karostay

Our ruling body has lost all respect for our founding constitution..
Time to resurrect Paul Revere

I am surprised his beautiful statue in Boston hasn't been torn down or his house set on fire by the ignorant mob. I hope someone is watching these relics.

[zendog3]

There are several good reasons to oppose this kind of training:
1. There is no such thing as white privilege. White people don't benefit from better educations and more generational wealth, etc.
2. Black people are inferior. Their lower status and wealth is a result of laziness and low intelligence.
3. It is true that Black people as a group suffer from a hundred years of discrimination and oppression by a white majority who begin life with a leg up. But, hey, don't worry about it. In another hundred years it will all go away. Not a problem we need to address now.

I tend to think my America has a problem, and we will not be the great nation we profess to be until we address it. I wish these people who are clearly working to make us a society of equal citizens, the best of luck.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by LowOnCash

So you don't believe this happens - I guess you don't see this is the same thousands of university whites marching in the middle of interstates harassing drivers or camping out de-facing buildings and tearing down statues and you're having a problem beliving there is some type of training for all this?

Oh, it was incited for sure. I don't know how well trained you have to be to protest and destroy stuff, though. You just have to be able to organize a mob fast...which they've been doing on social media for some time.

The interesting thing is that not one college campus was targeted by these protesters that I'm aware of.

[canyonblue]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

The interesting thing is that not one college campus was targeted by these protesters that I'm aware of.

From the looks of some of them I believe 80% of them couldn't even find a college campus or ever stepped foot on one.

[popbaby2]

Originally Posted by Luisa

It is typical for news media outside of FOX to fail to report the real news, leave out important info, or only report sound bites that fit their own agenda.

No it’s typical Of Fox News to put out faux news.

[Joe V.]

Originally Posted by popbaby2

No it’s typical Of Fox News to put out faux news.

Point out the faux news in the post we are discussing, please.