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EXCLUSIVE: Cigna's critical race theory training: Don't say 'brown bag lunch' and be mindful of 'religious privilege'
washington examiner ^ | 3/19/2021 | joseph simonson

Posted on 03/22/2021 6:53:52 PM PDT by bitt

Employees at one of the nation's largest health insurance providers are routinely subjected to far-left critical race theory lessons and asked not to consider white men in hiring decisions, according to leaked documents and chat logs obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Those who work at Cigna told the Washington Examiner that they are expected to undergo sensitivity training they consider racist and discriminatory. Lessons include reviews of concepts such as " white privilege," "gender privilege," and something called "religious privilege," which is described as "a set of advantages that benefits believers of a certain religion but not people who practice other religions or no religions at all."

Employees say they are pressured to comply with "inclusive language" outlines that suggest replacing terms like "Brown Bag Lunch" with "lunch-and-learn" or "grab n' go."

Other suggestions include avoiding the phrase "No can do" and replacing it with "unavailable." Employees are told to avoid gendered descriptions of romantic partners or family members and not to use "Hip Hip Hooray" at birthday parties, so others feel included.

Microaggressions listed include questions such as "Do you even know what Facebook is?" and "Are you a nurse?" Employees are also asked to go through a "Societal Norms checklist" and tick off boxes if they are "White," "Christian," or "Heterosexual."

"Our inclusive culture at Cigna means that we're working hard to ensure everyone feels respected, welcome, and like they belong," wrote Susan Stith, the Cigna Foundation's vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and corporate responsibility, in an internal memo. "This extends to the words we use, including understanding when certain terms might be perceived as negative or hurtful, and being intentional about choosing positive alternatives."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; brownbag; brownies; cigna; criticalracetheory; crt; susanstith
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To: bitt
Cigna's Susan Stith


41 posted on 03/23/2021 4:56:47 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: bitt

I was reminded not to use the they’ve “flip chart” given might be offensive to persons of Philipino ancestry...

This was 10 years ago...


42 posted on 03/23/2021 4:57:26 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: bitt

CIGNA, What a bunch of pearl clutching idiots. They want to stay far, far away from me, LOL.


43 posted on 03/23/2021 4:57:39 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: ealgeone
It's happening in practically every Fortune 500 company.

Yep! My employer is a large multi-national bank, Tier-1.

This CRT bullshit is getting shoved down our throats (no pun intended) so hard that they now even monitor our inboxes to make sure we open their "diversity & inclusion" memo's that we get bombarded with.

I ran my own little test to confirm it by simply deleting those messages from my inbox without opening or reading them. Sure enough an hour later I was re-sent the same memo, which I deleted without opening or reading. An hour later, the same memo was re-sent. I did this five times. On the sixth time I opened and immediately deleted the memo.

That memo was not re-sent again. Next day, another memo. Repeated the above process and it happened again.

Leaving these "memo's" unread for 24 hours results in it being re-sent daily until it's read.

It's #&*@$%!!! ridiculous.

So now any emails coming from the two accounts that send this crap to my inbox are automatically routed to trash and then permanently deleted. I love the ability of Outlook to create rules to deal with crap like this.

I imagine I'm showing up on a report somewhere that I'm not reading these "memo's" and frankly speaking, IDGAF. They can fire me for all I care because actually, that'd solve a lot of problems for me. I've enough to retire and I don't give a damn' about continuing to pay the ex-wife to leave me the f' alone via forced alimony. No income = NO ALIMONY.

Go ahead and fire me. That b*tch will starve and that solves another problem for me.

This is my version of "malicious compliance".

44 posted on 03/23/2021 4:58:49 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Songcraft
I don't know. I could see an objection from somewhere.


45 posted on 03/23/2021 5:07:10 AM PDT by xp38
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To: bitt

Cigna’s Board of Directors
https://www.cigna.com/about-us/company-profile/corporate-governance/board-of-directors


46 posted on 03/23/2021 5:08:19 AM PDT by Varda
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To: bitt
I've done/still do now and then a few gigs for them after I sold my business and retired. I'm told it's bad if you're an American. They've brought in H1Bs and put green cards in management positions where they are rewarding H1B incompetence and loading up the Caucs with impossible work loads so that they either quit or are terminated for failure. They don't care about losing institutional knowledge about key legacy systems which are still running.

Same thing happened at another insurance company I did a gig for. Got the Americans all set up, taught them how to delta problems themselves, and showed them a few VBA tricks to help them along the way. Then they fired most of them and replaced them with H1Bs, who then proceeded to fail spectacularly. The one person I still know from that gig texted me a pic of a User's Guide that the Indians were told to create, but they forgot to remove my name from all over the screenshots. It was the same document I wrote that years later some derpwad pasted his name on the cover without even editing the contents.

47 posted on 03/23/2021 5:11:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: bitt
the proper respectful way would be to say “not white coffee”

"Inclusive coffee"

48 posted on 03/23/2021 5:19:44 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: I want the USA back
What next: closing the cafeteria during ramadamadingdong?

I'm told that they put in a "meditation room" in the main campus, but only the muzz slimes can use it.

49 posted on 03/23/2021 5:24:27 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: rktman

Box lunch?


50 posted on 03/23/2021 5:38:19 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks

Hmmmm. Wonder who would be offended by that?


51 posted on 03/23/2021 8:05:32 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: bitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_(film) (with Jeff Bridges)

Following a calamity referred to as The Ruin, society has been reorganized. Conflict, pain, and suffering have been mostly removed from human experience. However, emotion, love, freedom, individuality, and joy have also been removed. Babies are brought into being through genetic engineering, and sexual desire is chemically suppressed. All memories of the past are held by one person, the Receiver of Memory, to shield the rest of the community from pain. The Receiver of Memory and their protégé are the only people able to see in color, which is otherwise eliminated from the community to prevent envy. The community is ruled by elders, including the Chief Elder.

52 posted on 03/23/2021 8:08:34 AM PDT by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: xp38

You have a point there.   (Maybe we should just call them "squares".)

53 posted on 03/23/2021 2:21:27 PM PDT by Songcraft
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