Posted on 09/15/2020 4:17:03 PM PDT by CedarDave
A series of forums on race offered at Sandia National Laboratories left at least one lab employee miffed enough to send an email blast to the entire staff voicing his displeasure.
And the upset electrical engineer appears to have caught the attention of the White House, which last week in a memo told all federal agencies to stop hosting similar training sessions.
Last month, Casey Petersen, an engineer, sent an “unauthorized” email to all lab employees denying the existence of systemic racism and aspects of white privilege and criticizing recent race-based training seminars at the labs.
About two hours later, Sandia National Laboratories responded with a “Special Announcement” telling its employees the email wasn’t an official communication and not to open or view it.
Several right-leaning news sites and think tanks have covered the conflict. The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” talk show on FOX News devoted several minutes to the topic last week.
Petersen was placed on paid administrative leave shortly after he sent the email. He has since returned to work on an “uncleared” status, which means he doesn’t have access to classified information. And he is the subject of an ethics investigation.
The White House Office of Management and Budget on Sept. 4 issued a memo that referred to some of those press reports. The memo said federal agencies have spent taxpayer money to put on trainings that were “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”
The memo directed agencies to identify and cancel contracts that bring racial sensitivity training that includes teaching critical race theory and white privilege at federal facilities, according to the memo.
Critical race theory is, among other things, a view that laws and institutions are inherently discriminatory against people of color.
Sandia has declined to comment on the matter.
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Yeah! What LibWhacker said!
Where do you go to get educated on how other races have it out for you if you are white and how to take maximum advantage of any liabilities that may crop up?
Its obvious they do because this training exists.
Not providing this for white people is racist.
>> promoted to head honcho.
Yup, the top dog, numero uno...
I handle security clearance appeals and I would take this guy’s case for expenses only. Absolutely ridiculous. And an abuse of power.
Good question.
It sounds like you work for the same company as Dilbert!!
Dilbert is a documentary.
Sadly this type of corporate culture is ubiquitous.
Not only that, it’s everywhere!
Subordinates did not speak to them unless they spoke to you.
Several times a white shirt stopped me and asked about problems I encountered.
I told them and they replied; "I have never heard of such a thing".
Me?: I guess it does not make it up the Chain of Command.
Managers trying not to draw attention to themselves by not taken problems up the chain.
Also Chris Rufo, an attorney who was planning to sue the crap out of these agencies to get them to stop.
Yeah, I was one of the corporate guys “changing” things. I used to deal with “you” all the time. I learned a bunch by calling you and talking.
99% of the time we would make it work.
That % of the time we didn’t is because of interpersonal issues within the local org. I actually found field guys who would not talk to a specific dispatcher because she gave one of the field techs herpes. Instead, it was the unwritten policy to call customer service, stay on hold, and take up three people’s time to report a problem fix.
I loved that job. Some of the stuff you learn makes your head spin. Then the MBAs took over. That’s when I left. People were “told”, there was no more conversation.
Glaring difference how “whistleblowers” are treated depending on who is being exposed. “Whistleblowers” that support the Democrat/left agenda are lauded as heros, while those that contradict or expose the left are deemed criminals.
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