Posted on 08/11/2021 6:27:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam’s founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil.
It was part of the credit card giant’s critical race theory training program, which asks workers to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves on a hierarchy of “privilege.”
According to a trove of documents I’ve reviewed, AmEx executives created an internal “Anti-Racism Initiative” after George Floyd’s death last year, subjecting employees to a training program based on the core CRT tenets, including intersectionality, which reduces individuals to a tangle of racial, gender and sexual identities that determine whether he is an “oppressor” or “oppressed” in a given situation.
In a foundational session, the outside consulting firm Paradigm trained AmEx employees to deconstruct their own intersectional identities, mapping their “race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity [and] citizenship” onto an official company worksheet.
Employees could then determine whether they have “privilege” or are members of a “marginalized group”: White males presumably end up in the oppressor position, while racial and sexual minorities are considered oppressed.
In a related session, trainers instruct employees how to change their behavior in the office based on their relative position on the hierarchy. The trainers provide a blue flowchart with specific rules for interacting with black, female and LGBT employees: If members of a subordinate group are present, workers should practice “intersectional allyship” and defer to them before speaking.
In another handout, the instructions for white employees are even more explicit: “identify the privileges or advantages you have”; “don’t speak over members of the black and African-American community”; “it’s not about your intent, it’s about the impact you have on your colleague.”
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Our nation is lost...
Makes me wish I had an American Express card, so I could cancel it.
They should drop the “American” from their name.
When do we end this already?
i just cancelled my American Express card.
it wasn’t hard to do.
just cut it in half and that was it.
........well, I can’t do without it so I will have to turn a blind eye to this latest wokeism by an American Corp. My assistant is this month retiring after 39 years at American Express.
Change the name to Marxist Express
This is really disturbing. I use AmEx and AmEx only. I’m reluctant to cancel it but....
Subjecting your employees to the rants of fools is NOT “training”.
So AmEx is going to go from 25% rates to..
“Oh just pay us back when you can”
Business model?
Like the old Yakov Smirnoff joke: “Russian Express - Don’t Leave Home!”
As a conservative, I used to respect "big-business."
Not any more. I view many of them, particular on Wall Street/finance, as partners with a massive Fed.gov and the Left to help maintain control, push a political agenda, while they are allowed line their pockets. A kind of fascism.
We are indeed in deep trouble, because to fix it means some really major, bloody and painful surgery on the nations' institutions and economy.
Communists were right when they said that the Capitalists would sell them the rope they would hang with Capitalists with.
There are probably less than a thousand people on interlocking boards of directors who are our enemies.
There are no “big corporations”.
There are just evil individuals.
It’s beyond repair, IMO. It will crash and burn.
“When do we end this already?”
Hard to say. The likes of you and I are sick of it. But we are dying off, and the indoctrinated either love it, or just don’t care.
Americans are willingly, and often gleefully walking into communism. One day they’ll realize what they gave up... I’ll likely be gone by then.
Why they just dismantle and donate the proceedings to BLM?
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