Posted on 02/26/2021 5:44:58 AM PST by Red Badger
The clothing company allegedly forced its white employees to participate in a training program that asked them to consider ways in which they might be racist.
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According to a whistleblower, fitness clothing company Under Armour forced its white employees last year to participate in a live training session that asked them to consider ways in which they might be racist or privileged and urged them to have “a little more going on than, we just were taught to see everybody as equal.”
Under Armour’s white employees were required in the spring of 2020 to participate in the diversity training program, according to videos of the training session provided to The Daily Wire by an internal whistleblower at Under Armour who asked to remain anonymous.
One of the program’s slides had a header reading, “Above the Surface: Dominant White Progressive Narratives,” and provided a list of statements purportedly in that category, including, “I was taught to treat everyone the same,” “I work in a very diverse environment,” “I have people of color in my family,” “I used to live in New York,” and “Children are so much more open.”
In another slide, the program asked employees about their education, prodding them to consider what were considered characteristics of “good” or “bad” schools, according to their upbringing.
“Did your parents care about what kind of school you went to? If so, why?” the program asked, along with, “How often had you had a teacher or professor of your own race(s)?”
The program also asked how often the employees had been to weddings or funerals that were “virtually all white?”
“What are some of the ways in which your race has shaped your life?” this section of the program concluded.
“Now there’s no way I can give you the time to answer that last one,” the program moderator said with a chuckle. “The last one should be something that you are thinking about if you are white for the rest of your life.”
“But I’m hoping that those questions for most white people surface, that there’s a little more going on than, we just were taught to see everybody as equal,” she added.
Last summer, Under Armour released a series of new diversity and inclusion actions that included a commitment to fill 12 percent of director and above positions with African American hires by 2023.
Under Armour is far from the first large company to frustrate its employees over diversity training programs that separate workers by race and are rife with condemnations of “whiteness.”
This week, Coca-Cola came under fire for a training seminar that reportedly encouraged the mammoth soft drink company’s employees to be “less white.”
“In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” states one slide from the “Confronting Racism” course, allegedly shared by a whistleblower from inside the company. The training program was part of a LinkedIn Learning Series.
Other slides allegedly urged Coke employees to “try to be less white” as well as to “break with white solidarity,” “listen,” “believe,” and “be less oppressive.”
On Friday, Coca-Cola released a statement responding to the backlash, saying the training session video that went viral “is not a focus of our company’s curriculum” and promising to “continue to refine this curriculum.”
Coca-Cola later released a slightly different statement:
The video and images attributed to a Coca-Cola training program are not part of the company’s learning curriculum. Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to LinkedIn Learning on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion.
In September, former President Trump issued an executive order mandating that federal agencies cease using taxpayer dollars to fund diversity training focusing on critical race theory, calling the programs “divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions.”
However, on his first day in office, President Biden overrode the previous administration’s order and rescinded the restrictions on federal agencies using the training programs.
Come on man! Now I gotta quit wearing Under Armor too?!
Watch it or quit. Those are the options.
Lots of other good clothing companies out there.................
Exactly. U/A made in CHYna
No surprise.
I know a few former Under Armor employees. They all said it was a weird and cultic place to work.
One friend was a Director and said that if you weren’t part of the inner circle of sycophants, you barely existed.
Watch it or quit. Those are the options.
Or third option, don’t watch it, make them fire you and sue them for racial discrimination and NAZI like tactics for creating a hostile working environment. Should be worth a few mill
When will there be push back?
Really sick and tired of this bullshit.
Federal government is so large that it now directly influences big business corporate America while destroying small business competition. Small businesses must be destroyed since considered “non-standard”, harder to control.
It’s all about economies of scale to achieve total control.
It’s to finish beating Whitey into submission so that he becomes a whimpering, compliant coward, willing to accept his final demise and ultimate handover of accumulated assets.
Good option is you can line up an attorney and a gap stop job prior to refusing their propaganda.
That is actually a pretty solid plan.
One corporation to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.......................
Another option that employees might want to consider first depending on their circumstances...
See if you can set up a private appointment with HR to discuss your unwillingness to participate in this. Don’t mention lawyers. Take notes. See how it goes.
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3937745/posts
They’ve long been on my “NO buy list”. So long that I can’t remember why I put them on it. Not that I buy any of the name brand crap anyway. :-)
That would be the goal...
Destroying the non-standard individual or business at scale.
The corporation I work for made us all take a similar (online) course late last year. It started with instructing all white participants to presume they’re disgusting racists to begin with, and then went on to “encourage” all of us to put ourselves in the position of a POC (daily) to understand the “struggle”.
Never bought this brand, it was always an obvious WOKE brand with nothing more attached, like a decent product.
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