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Maoist cultural revolution comes for Seattle's white employees, By Andrea Widburg, 4/8/20, American Thinker
In Seattle, home to the leftist paradise formerly known as CHOP
(which was formerly known as CHAZ), white city employees
were "invited" to attend a Maoist abuse session during
which they were told they were inherently racist and must henceforth perform
thought control to re-orient themselves to correct thinking. Does
that sentence sound over the top? Well, yes — but it's also entirely accurate.
In a mind-boggling
Twitter thread, Christopher F. Rufo introduces Americans to a June 12, 2020,
City of Seattle training session entitled "Interrupting Internalized
Racial Superiority and Whiteness." Thanks to a public records
request, Rufo was able to obtain copies of the handouts at the training
session, although Seattle is currently refusing to produce other information,
such as the names of those teaching and the amount they were paid.
As you may recall, Seattle,
in a frenzy of woke guilt, declared June 12 a "day of reflection and action"
following George Floyd's death. However, the city decided upon a
special way for its white employees to reflect: it emailed employees informing
them that there would be "a training on Internalized Racial Superiority
tomorrow morning, specifically
targeting white employees[.]"
.. invite[d] 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. [snip] White employees
are invited to sign up here so we know you’re joining us[.]
The Civil Rights Act makes it illegal to treat
people differently based on skin color. And while the email is
framed as an "invitation," it's hard to imagine that white employees
supervised by black employees or working closely with black colleagues did not
feel coerced into attending the seminar.
According to the materials Rufo obtained,
employees who attended the seminar were barraged with material that flat-out
called them racist. The basis for this accusation was simple: their
skin color. If you are white (which includes being Arab, Jewish,
Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian, or Irish), you are a racist.
Indeed, one handout explicitly states that
almost all human emotions or beliefs are proof that a white person is either
elevating his whiteness or denigrating other races:
For fifty years, Americans have
been taught that stereotyping people by their race and, worse, treating them as
second-class citizens because of their race is racist. Now, though,
we're in a weirdly inverted Jim Crow South, a world in which racist black
eugenicists and sociologists sagely opine that whites are inherently
hate-filled, inferior creatures who need to be whipped (a word I use
deliberately) into shape.
Having worked his way
through the racist Maoist nonsense that the City of Seattle paid for and
pressured its white employees to attend, Rufo urges people to fight back:
"When you find something like this in your community, expose it, criticize
it, mock it, and reject it."
Sadly, so far, few white
Americans fight back. In the upper echelons of corporate America,
the people who run the companies have thoroughly internalized the Marxist
self-loathing in which they were indoctrinated while at college. For
example, this is what you'll currently see at the homepage for Good Housekeeping, once a magazine dedicated
to creating a lovely home for one's family:
Those employees who managed to escape the brainwashing
or who never attended college don't protest for a very specific reason: their
mortgages. Or maybe the kids' college funds. Or possibly
the payments on their cars.
In other words, America's middle classes, from
working, to lower, to upper, are prisoners of their lifestyles. They
have too many possessions and obligations to risk making a stand.
They may privately gripe about the
indoctrination and insults heaped upon them at work, on social media, and even
in their middle-class neighborhoods, but they're not going to make a
stand. Doing so risks everything. It's only the very rich
or those unencumbered with family obligations who can afford to push back.
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."
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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