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The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”
So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through it together in this thread. 
First, diversity trainers informed white participants that "objectivity," "individualism," "intellectualization," and "comfort" are all vestiges of internalized racial oppression.pic.twitter.com/qrZwHZgx1H
Sometimes both sides of the coin are "oppression." Are white employees speaking too much? That's probably the internalized racial superiority of "imposition" or "paternalism." Are white employees speaking too little? That's oppression, too, because "silence" is "violence."
What's next? The City of Seattle diversity trainers encourage white employees to "practice self-talk that affirms [their] complicity in racism" and work on "undoing your own whiteness."pic.twitter.com/CJxNEcIeh2
What happens after the thought exercises? It's time to DO THE WORK. The trainers ask white employees to "let go" of "comfort," "guaranteed physical safety," "control over the land," "social status," and "relationships with some other white people."pic.twitter.com/sRZf8gA6Go
Then they go through a flow chart that outlines how white people "cause harm to POC," "show up small and inauthentic," and are unable to access their "humanity."pic.twitter.com/jcJppWXe0k
In case some people are wondering if they're "really white," they pass out a datasheet called "Assimilation into Whiteness." Are you of Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian or Irish descent? You're definitely white. No getting out of this.pic.twitter.com/mqsCUB9Ijr
As @DrKarlynB first reported, the invitation for this training was strictly segregated to "white City employees."
The goal is to teach them how they have "complicity in the system of white supremacy" and must be held "accountable to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color."pic.twitter.com/kPbppFYDtM
How do you know when you've successfully "interrupted your whiteness"? –When you "implicate yourself" in racism. –When "other white people may be angry." –When you have stopped your "white normative behavior."pic.twitter.com/7Pv5FvRxm1
So far, 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.
As @ConceptualJames and others have shown, 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. /End
Holy shit. I would quit. How is this legal and does it come up to best practices standards?
I would immediately make a case with HR that I felt "unsafe" in this event. Of course HR is filled with these true believers but I would have it on record that my "safety" felt threatened by a class that was denigrating me based on my skin color. Play th game
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