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Christopher F. Rufo

SCOOP: Raytheon, the nation's second-largest defense contractor, has launched a critical race theory program that encourages white employees to confront their "privilege," reject the principle of "equality," and "defund the police." Let's review the internal documents.🧵

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Last summer, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes launched the Stronger Together campaign instructing employees on "becoming an anti-racist today." He signed a corporate diversity statement and then asked all Raytheon employees to sign the pledge and "check [their] own biases."

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The program is centered on “intersectionality,” a core component of critical race theory that divides the world into competing identity groups, with race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other categories defining an individual’s place within the hierarchy of oppression.

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Raytheon then asks white employees to deconstruct their identities and "identify [their] privilege." The company argues that white, straight, Christian men are at the top of the oppression hierarchy—and must work on "recognizing [their] privilege" and "step aside" for minorities.

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Raytheon tells employees to "identify everyone's race" during workplace conversations. Whites must "listen to the experiences" of "marginalized identities" and should "give [those with such identities] the floor in meetings or on calls, even if it means silencing yourself."

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Raytheon instructs white employees never to say that they "pray things change soon." Whites must acknowledge that their own discomfort is "a fraction" of their black colleagues', who are "exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared and overwhelmed."

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Raytheon has segregated employees by race and identity groups for black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, LGBTQ, and other intersectional categories. This is a slide from a recent seminar on "Developing Intersectional Allyship in the Workplace."

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Next, Raytheon explicitly instructs employees to oppose "equality," defined as "treating each person the same . . . regardless of their differences," and strive instead for "equity," which "focuses on the equality of the outcome."

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Finally, in a collection of recommended resources, the company encourages white employees to "defund the police," "participate in reparations,” "decolonize your bookshelf," "join a local 'white space.'"

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I will be on Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss this explosive story. In the meantime, sign up for my newsletter to get the latest stories on critical race theory in American institutions—and, if you're inclined, to support my work.

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Critical Race Theory Briefing Book

Critical race theory is an academic discipline that holds that the United States is a nation founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these

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Here is the full story on Raytheon's critical race theory training program:

city-journal.org

Raytheon Adopts Critical Race Theory | City Journal

The defense contractor’s “anti-racism” program tells employees to acknowledge their “privilege.”

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lol they just cut and pasted this from other "lessons." This equality of outcome stuff is the same crap that was in Disney's seminar

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Esoteric Brandonist

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Probably the same consulting group

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Ummon Karpe | 𑀅𑀫𑀦 𑀓𑀭𑀧𑁂

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I've always found that picture ironic in that the athletes on the field are all able-bodied.

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There are people that paid who are sitting in the stands, the players on the field & three looking over the fence for free. Those three are a black man, a brown little girl, & a disabled person. What exactly does it say about the three at the fence? What am I supposed to think?

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Do Raytheon manufacture boxes that enable people to watch sports in stadia? Does anyone? I’ve always thought this a shit metaphor, but maybe never more so than when it is used by a company whose purpose is creating inequality between their customers and their customers’ targets.

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Mandating equality of outcome is Literally Communism....

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Hmm no, it's literally equality. Pretending you are treating people equally in the face of obvious unfair disparities of outcome is simply hypocrisy.

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