Posted on 08/29/2020 9:26:04 AM PDT by blam
Sandia Labs – America’s premiere government-funded nuclear weapons design lab, has taken aggressive action against an employee, Casey Peterson, who produced a viral video “pushing back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege.”
Here’s the long and short of it via Christopher Rufo – director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty, who has directed four documentaries for PBS, Netflix and international television – and has declared ‘war’ on critical race theory.
“ There is a civil war erupting at @SandiaLabs.
Following my investigation, a dissident electrical engineer named Casey Peterson emailed all 16,000 employees denouncing critical race theory in the lab and hoping to spark a rebellion against Sandia executives.
Here’s the story.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020
Rufo continues:
On Tuesday, Peterson made a YouTube video “pushing back back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege.”
The video quickly hit 10,000 views within the labs and dozens of Sandia employees contacted Peterson to express support.
Within hours, Sandia executives dispatched a counterintelligence team to lock Peterson out of the network and scrub his communications from internal servers—which, via the Streisand Effect, made the video even more viral and sparked widespread unrest against Sandia executives.
By the afternoon, executives were panicking about the brewing rebellion, placed Peterson on paid administrative leave, and established a “security review board” to “evaluate whether [his] actions have comprised or posed a threat to Sandia computing and security systems.”
Peterson—who took a stand at grave risk to his career—says he is speaking on behalf of all of Sandia employees who are “scared to speak out” because of the lab’s repressive culture. “If I get fired because of this,” Peterson says, “the fight does not end, it only intensifies.”
This is the first explicit rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government—and the coalition is growing. “We need to completely rip [critical race theory] out of Sandia root and stem,” Peterson says. “It is cancer and we need to get it out of the labs right now.”
Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative employees will be purged.
Keep this in mind: Sandia Labs is a federally-funded research agency and designs America’s nuclear weapons. Senator @HawleyMO and @SecBrouillette have launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated their purge against conservatives.
Sandia executives face a decision-point: they can back down and Peterson’s rebellion will notch an internal victory; or they can fire him and Peterson will become further evidence of Sandia’s corrupt and repressive culture. In a sense, Peterson cannot lose.
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“I don’t know what critical race theory is, but it sounds like something invented by communists.”
It’s what you major in in college if you are incapable of doing math and you really should be digging ditches.
CRT is a Marxist theory that defines people as oppressors and oppressed. They assign a scoring system giving the most honor to the most oppressed, and the most contempt for the most oppressive. Not surprising, white males are the highest scoring bad guys and muslin radicals are the best of the good guys. Basically resentment and revenge by skin color. It is poison in the work place.
You are right on and, additionally, IG reports take time, the Agency can comment and dispute the results and any implementation is weak at best. Meanwhile, the purging or wrong thinking conservatives will continue. DOE top management has just pushed this off into the future rather than taking immediate strong action to stop and rescind the poison.
Probably something like "If you're white you get criticized for everything."
Remember Wen Ho Lee?
“Those administrators responsible should be fired immediately.”
Agreed, fire the top admin. then go to the CDC and the NIH and do the same.
“...Federal-Funded Nuclear Weapons Lab”
As opposed to a Free-Market Capitalistic Nuclear Weapons Lab?
They pulled something very similar at Intel back in 2002.
All employees were mandated to go to indoctrination to “learn” about other cultures.
It was ran by outside contractors who told Intel Employees how to think and behave.
In reality it was an attempt by Indian Managers to grab control over the company.
We were told everything said in the meeting was going to stay in the meeting.
It was a lie.
So, the Secretary of Energy can all in the laboratory director and senior management, stand them on the carpet and say WTF. And he can fire the senior management tomorrow if he chooses. He can rescind the contract for cause while keeping the non Honeywell technical staff.
If they get rid of all the white guys who is going to do the work? Are there that many Black Nuclear scientists around to fill the gap? Sounds like a way to weaken our defense....HMMMM
Trump should order the 4 top exec’s involved security clearances revoked and barred from access to government servers “pending investigation” (that will never end and likely force their resignations). Enough dicking around. Total Kreig against these leftist demons.
That man has a big set made of solid steel. It is very rare to watch someone commit career suicide by standing up for his principals and not meekly going along with his workplace philosophy to evade the consequences. Peterson is my new hero. What a courageous person.
Critical Race Theory is something that has been adapted by the Race industry from Critical Social Theory of the Frankfort School.
When you read about it, you will see all the recent complaints spelled out (like "White Privilege").
Critical Race Theory is a Marxist tool for attacking the institutions of Western Civilization from the angle of race.
Scratch beneath CRT and you'll find Marxism. Look at those pushing CRT and Marxism in the U.S. Government and you'll see The Deep State.
CRT is a prong of Marxism, but it is a major prong (read: strategy) in the U.S. for breaking down U.S. institutions as part of the Marxist revolution in the U.S. This Marxist revolution BTW is emerging from the shadows in the form of the riots, looting, and burning in certain Left control cities.
Scratch beneath the surface of The Deep State (or look behind it) and you will see European Marxists (globalists) and the Chinese Communist Party.
Yep. Whites are now guilty for stuff yet to be invented.
They serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Energy. They can dismissed today with a letter.
So, since the top leadership of the DOE has not done that and is just slow rolling an investigation, they are just letting the clock run out too as conservatives are hunted down while critical race theory continues to rot minds in the labs.
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