Hostile work environment claim should be invoked.
Here are a few questions I have come up with if you want to have some fun:
Are you a racist? (If no,) How do you know that? What facts do you base that on? (If yes,) So why don’t you stop being a racist?
Can you provide us with a complete list of all words and terminology that are now deemed racist and/or disrespectful so that we can stop using those words going forward? If you can’t give a complete list, how about 20 (or 30 or 40) examples?
Do all black lives matter? (Note: Don’t make the mistake of using the phrase “all lives matter,” even in a question. That will get you branded as a “racist.” The question of whether all black lives matter will be a new one on them.). Do the lives of approximately 6500 black men murdered by other black men each year matter more or less than the the lives of the far smaller number of blacks killed by police each year (under 300), let alone the number of unarmed black men killed by police each year (which is around 20 or fewer, although you can’t get a precise figure because the Washington Post data base only includes deaths by shooting)?
How do you explain the fact that Nigerian-Americans and Ghanaian-Americans have higher household median income than native-born white Americans?
Does the NBA — where average salaries are multiple millions per year and active players are about 75% black — have an obligation to make itself “look more like America”? If not, why not?
I for one am looking forward to standing on chairs or tables, with a dunce cap and signs around my neck, listing my sins...actually I’m retired, so I may get a pass.
Thanks for posting.
My approach (and I have been through a couple) was to play dumb.
So, it is a variation on the asking questions approach, except the purpose is to act stupid.
“I don’t understand what you said.”
“Please explain—this is confusing.”
Act baffled.
Pretend you are in a grad student seminar on Topology or Nuclear Physics.
and the professor is speaking in German!
Strain to listen, and then repeat:
“I am still confused. What are you saying?”
“What am I supposed to say?”
“What am I supposed to do?”
“When is this supposed to happen?”
“One more time, so what are we doing here?”
I had yo go to one as a contractor at a major military aircraft manufacturer in the USA. (I actually work for a company that makes certain systems.)
I just channeled my IDF prisoner training.
I became completely the grey man. I was not late. I was not early. I sat on the side middle to the front. I read the material. I daydreamed while looking attentive. I spoke briefly when called upon. General open ended meh answers
I did play up the language thing. My English became marketedly worse than it is, to make myself annoying, and thus causing the proctor, who just spent hours saying we must be patient with those whose native language is different than ours — to become impatient and call in someone else.
I have been saying for weeks that people need to look at the cultural revolution in the mid sixties to see the template for this.
BLM is the Red Guard, made up of the young 16-20 year old “red babies.” The purists in these movements have been raised in Rodney King land. They really believe that the cops and establishment are racist.
Soon, the proletariat will step up to destroy the “capitalists” and the establishment. Watch, if Biden wins, they will turn on him before the Inauguration or shortly after. If Trump wins, they will challenge him right away. And by challenge him, I mean violence, rioting, a real attacks.
When the suburbs get involved, watch out. I think it will die out when it’s cold and rainy.
Why is George Foster’s life more valuable that the black police officers who were killed during the riots?
Perhaps this Russian joke from the Brezhnev era applies:
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.
My suggestion: There’s only one race. Human.
One lesson I wish I had learned earlier:
There are times when it pays to act dumb and clueless.
If I was stuck in one of these sessions, I would sit in the least conspicuous part of the room, try to appear like I was following the presentation attentively, but really daydream about the upcoming weekend.
If, God forbid, I got called on, my ace in the hole might be the fact that I stutter occasionally. I usually have it pretty well under control, but on the rare occasions I get seriously flustered it can be a problem.
But hey, no props to the instructor for picking on a poor disabled guy.
I tell people I identify as a crazy magistrate, and so my preferred pronoun is Judge Mental :D
I was subjected to a day long “Diversity Seminar” while employed by a global corporation. I endured it until after the lunch break before I felt compelled to express myself to the moron showing stupid slides, and also co-workers who played along with such stupidity...
I said he was a jackass for valuing diversity over competency, than I said something like, “If there were an applicant who was an Ethiopian, and a transqueer lesbian with a mustache, who weighed 600 lbs. and had a speech impediment and body odor, than that person must be made CEO.
Security immediately escorted me from the premises, but I got big laughs from everybody! Good riddance.
“I just received my Ancestry.com DNA results.
I am 3-8% “woodshed” African.
How much do you, my white instructor, plan on paying me in reparations?
Cash, or do you need a payment plan set up?”
Can I take a bathroom break to go #2?
Has anyone got an extra tampon?
Were we required to wear clean underwear for this seminar?
Do I smell gas?
Does anyone smell smoke?
Do you prefer sex with someone of the same race?
Do you prefer sex with someone of the same sex?
Has anyone got a spare battery for my tape recorder?
Some days it is good to be the boss. Not on payday. But on other days.
I always start with. “ define white “
...I couldn't resist responding being a white woman and all, saying...Well that's exactly why I hate diversity.
You could have heard a pin drop in that room then.