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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
Phew,I’m Welsh.
I can think of one or two Arabs who would probably argue otherwise, especially since these days all (and only) whites are considered 'racist'. And hey, tell Shaun King that since Jews are white, therefore Jesus is white, so he can relax and apologize for his error.
I have several Iranian friends who's ancestry they claim has been traced back to the early Persian empires. They would punch you in the throat if you called them white. FYI they fled Iran because they were marked for death by the Revolution because they had a successful buisness
Interestingly, the census bureau agrees: "['White' includes] ethnic groups originating in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa ... [including] German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Polish, French, Iranian, Slavic, Cajun, and Chaldean." https://2020census.gov/en/about-questions/2020-census-questions-race.html …
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