I’m curious... when did this happen? Recently, or in pre-Obama days?
And, Maybe he thought talking to this privileged black technician was in itself dangerous because said person was more than a little nuts, but in a difficult to remove favored group.
“I’m curious... when did this happen? Recently, or in pre-Obama days?
And, Maybe he thought talking to this privileged black technician was in itself dangerous because said person was more than a little nuts, but in a difficult to remove favored group.
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I don’t recall who was president. It probably wasn’t about black privilege, although that certainly existed. A white who was not highly placed could be dismissed based on one complaint of racism, no questions asked. If the white was higher placed, say in management or a valued engineer, nothing happened that I was aware of.
However, we were all given classes on “ethics.” I put quotes on it because the classes were on political correctness. We were, for example, forbidden to tell jokes because you don’t know who you might offend. We were supposed “confront” and then report people who said racist, homophobic, or sexist statements. If we didn’t confront and report we were “condoners.” Being a condoner was as bad as being a racist, homophobe or sexist.
I was reminded of stories I read about how people lived through their Hitler Youth days by saying only ridiculously positive things like, “my, aren’t we having such a good time here at Hitler Youth camp.”
The requirement for these training sessions was in our government contracts.