Posted on 04/28/2021 4:40:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Here is one woman’s tale of going to war with aggressively woke employees who were attempting a coup against her organization.
Now that leftist activists, especially those espousing Critical Race Theory (CRT), have successfully overtaken big corporations, they’re setting their sights on smaller organizations. For every business owner, that’s a terrifying thought. However, a woman named Grace, who runs a Christian-themed organization that helps train mental health professionals around the world, created a Twitter thread explaining both how CRT and other socialist activism began pervading her company and how she and her husband fought back against it. It’s an illuminating narrative, both because it shows how pervasive woke activism is and that we can fight it.
(Twitter thread is in comment section)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’ve wondered if it’s worth sharing “my story.” I’m a pretty private person so it feels weird to share. But I think it’s worth it bc we all need encouragement that ordinary ppl can do something about what’s happening to our country. So, why do I talk about Woke stuff?
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— Grace, culture war refugee (@graceisforyou) April 26, 2021
The Woke Mob: my survival story
My husband and I co-founded a justice-oriented non-profit org 11 years ago. At the time, we knew nothing about Critical Social Justice or Critical Theory. Our motivation was to address disparities in mental health care.
We’d learned that lay people (ppl without clinical training) made up the majority of trauma care providers around the world working with vulnerable populations (refugees, human trafficking survivors, etc). We wanted to help equip those lay people with good resources.
We hired clinically trained mental health professionals to develop our curriculum, oversee MEL, and run the international training program. Everything went great for about 7 years. We got accolades from all the right people in academia and partnered with orgs in 50+ countries.
Then a few years ago we noticed a tone shift among our program staff. They became hyper-critical of everything. As Executive Director, my husband felt he was always on trial. Every word and action was scrutinized. We couldn’t figure out where this was coming from.
We noticed shared rhetoric among the staff. Terms we heard often:
“systems of power and oppression”
“hegemony”
“marginalized identities”
“intersections”
“centering”
“deconstruct”
“knowledges”
“normativity”
Didn’t understand the ideology behind it, started doing some reading.
Then the open letters started. The letters always went to everyone in the org (from the graphic designer to the governing board), they always asserted vaguely that the organization was “causing harm,” and they always ended with demands. We were alarmed and confused.
We began having all-org sessions trying to discern what was happening and what was needed. It was quickly apparent there were no specific actions or incidents that could be deemed harmful. The accusations were always vague and abstract, about “identities”, “systems,” etc.
What also became apparent quickly was they didn’t want to resolve any real harm. They wanted control of the organization. They stated explicitly my husband was incapable of running an org that addresses trauma (an org he founded!) bc he’s straight, white, male, and Christian.
That’s when I learned to fight. I’d been doing my homework for a while. Thanks to people like @NeilShenvi, @ConceptualJames, @wokal_distance, @WokeTemple, @D_B_Harrison and @realchrisrufo, I knew what we were facing. It was an attempted woke subversion of the organization.
I wrote organizational position papers on how Critical Social Justice compromised our work by being in direct conflict with a number of our organizational commitments, namely, being evidence-based, valuing the individual, cultural humility, and allowing for true diversity.
Maybe I shouldn’t be proud of it, but I also learned to use their woke rules against them. When a staff member said I couldn’t speak to a topic bc I’m straight, I told her it was wrong of her to assume about my sexuality just bc I’m married to a man. She immediately groveled.
After some months, when it was clear to them we wouldn’t budge, the ones making demands left “on moral grounds,” accusing us of every phobia and calling the org “white supremacist.” We’ve always partnered with ppl of every ethnicity, creed and identity, so this is laughable.
Having survived an attempted power grab and character assassination by a woke mob, I’ll say it’s painful to be mistreated by ppl you trusted. But if you care more about maintaining your integrity than what people think or say about you, you’ll emerge with your dignity intact.
Don’t apologize for vague accusations of “harm.” It’s not a fair fight. They don’t want dialogue. Expose their inconsistencies - show how their demands won’t achieve what they claim to care about (helping the poor, etc). It’ll require some reading and a lot of courage.
If you don’t fight this nonsense now, wherever it’s showing up in your community, there’ll be nothing good, true, or beautiful to defend soon. We will be ruled by lies and power while being told we’re progressing toward truth and justice.
Open war is upon us, there is no “safe” any more. Choose which kind of “unsafe” you want. Fighting lies is always preferable to being ruled by them. I believe they can be defeated. I believe the truth will prevail.
Thanks for reading my story, I’d love to hear yours. 16/16
— Grace, culture war refugee (@graceisforyou) April 26, 2021
I highly recommend the book, Fault Lines, by Voddie T. Beauchamp Jr. Outstanding book on understanding CRT and fighting back.
It begins.
Counterrevolutionaries, unite!
You have nothing to lose but these losers who don’t know how to make anything better, only how to destroy.
Hallelujah. Much, much work to be done. And all so unnecessary.
Cliff note version: Marxists realized that Americans weren’t responding to their traditional tool of class warfare and envy. So, they have substituted race divisions to undermine and destroy concepts of capitalism, personal and property rights and the underpinnings of western civilization in general.
Push back at every opportunity, and mock them if you are able. They HATE to be mocked.
bkmk
I expect in the not distant future to see a sign that says
“White Male Christian heterosexuals NOT ALLOWED “
Thanks for the reading recommendation. I shall look this up soon as I think it may be required in order to fight the good fight in places like school board meetings to address this pernicious evil wending its way into curriculum.
As to this “culture war refugee’s” issues as detailed in her Twitter post, the best advice I can give her is to carefully look back in her mind about the hiring of those now leaving “on moral grounds.” Being as analytical and non-emotional as possible, I believe it is almost certain she could identify characteristics about these individuals that were evident at hiring that caused her antennae to twitch but not enough to keep from hiring that person. Now is the time to fine-tune those antennae with what has been learned so you don’t go down the same path again. SJWs are naturally drawn to her type of organization so don’t let them land there to sharpen their swords at your expense.
Push back at every opportunity, and mock them if you are able. They HATE to be mocked.
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Worth repeating!
The former FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, said of the Communist goals:
“Communists seek to advance the cause of Communism [Globalists] by injecting themselves into racial situations and in exploiting them, to intensify the frictions between Negroes and Whites to ‘prove’ that discrimination against the minorities is an inherent defect of the capitalistic system, to foster domestic disunity by dividing Negroes and Whites into antagonistic, warring factions, to undermine and destroy established authority, to incite racial strife and riotous activity, and to portray the Communist movement as the ‘champion’ of social protest and the only force capable of ameliorating the conditions of the Negro and the oppressed.”
Same as it ever was....
If pushing CRT in the workplace does not constitute creating and fostering a hostile work environment, then I don’t know what does. This is clearly a violation of federal labor laws. Not one to encourage trial lawyers, but there is definitely a golden opportunity here.
Make them feel the pain (figuratively speaking).
PING!
She needn't be ashamed. That's simply a version of making the enemy live up to his own rules (Alinsky).
I hope she handed that ‘staff member’ a pink slip soon after.
Exactly true !
Take a lesson from Sol Alinsky and use their own rules against them,
and try to include humor (that way it hurts more !).
Critical Race Theory is nothing more than a mental aberration of the aggrieved, or those who think that they are justified by psychosis.
She should name names of the people who perpretrated the atempted woke takeover.
Bookmarked
You cannot oppose critical race theory and simultaneously believe in, or advocate for, equality of outcome.
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