Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

The trainers tell white employees they must "provide unconditional solidarity" for people of color. Whites "don't get to decide when someone is being too emotional, too rash, [or] too mean" and cannot protest if a POC "responds to their oppression in a way [they] don't like."pic.twitter.com/PnAuqiKOxC

What if a white employee disagrees? They will be told that "white silence has been one of the most powerful detractors from real progress in social justice" and that whites must "sit in the discomfort" of their own internalized racism and white supremacy.pic.twitter.com/ugmxYFVOUC

During the training session, white employees are warned that "this is not the place to get [their] feelings validated." The trainers tell them that people of color are not "obligated to like you, thank you, feel sorry for you, or forgive you."pic.twitter.com/D22Qoy1dSX

So who is teaching the course? This man, Howard J. Ross, who has billed the federal government $5 million for diversity trainings over the past 15 years on topics including "white supremacy," "white privilege," and "white fragility.pic.twitter.com/J4T8swE8ok

In 2011 alone, Howard Ross billed the General Services Administration $3 million for diversity training and billed NASA $500,000 for "power and privilege sexual orientation workshops."pic.twitter.com/KXeWBlATu2

Let's be clear: Ross is a taxpayer-funded charlatan. He has packaged racialist pseudoscience and "used his privilege" to secure massive federal "diversity and inclusion" contracts. In the language of his own discourse, he is monetizing black pain to make personal profit.pic.twitter.com/ANlo1fSa9S

Sadly, the diversity-hustle hasn't stopped with the Trump administration. Ross has done many federally-funded trainings since 2016, teaching the latest academic theories on "white supremacy" and encouraging federal workers to attend the annual "White Privilege Conference."pic.twitter.com/9U2e8raNEn

This will not end in the workplace. At the end of the session, the trainers tell employees to "talk to your children about race," because children become racist "around 3 years old." Ultimately, this is "only the beginning of a lifelong education about anti-Black racism."pic.twitter.com/mB4YOmgdSy