Posted on 10/07/2020 9:52:10 AM PDT by karpov
On Sept 22, the White House put out an "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping." Media coverage has been curiously spotty. Reading the primary source is revealing.
One expects an executive order to consist of a short list of things that can and cannot be done, like a regulation. This one is more of an investigative report, with a philosophical preamble.
What's in the training programs?
Federal agencies are already implementing programs, on a wide scale. The order tells us a lot about what's in them. No, it is not an unbiased evaluation. But its selection of facts are nonetheless facts. No critic that I have seen has claimed otherwise.
... the Department of the Treasury recently held a seminar that promoted arguments that virtually all White people, regardless of how woke they are, contribute to racism, and that instructed small group leaders to encourage employees to avoid narratives that Americans should be more color-blind or let peoples skills and personalities be what differentiates them...
Training materials from Argonne National Laboratories, a Federal entity, stated that racism is interwoven into every fabric of America and described statements like color blindness and the meritocracy as actions of bias.
Materials from Sandia National Laboratories, also a Federal entity, for non-minority males stated that an emphasis on rationality over emotionality was a characteristic of white male[s], and asked those present to acknowledge their privilege to each other.
A Smithsonian Institution museum graphic recently claimed that concepts like [o]bjective, rational linear thinking, [h]ard work being the key to success, the nuclear family, and belief in a single god are not values that unite Americans of all races but are instead aspects and assumptions of whiteness.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnhcochrane.blogspot.com ...
Will there be camps were sent to?
Asian Americans will never advance as a race until they learn to depend on luck and favoritism.
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