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Cult Programming in Seattle. The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.”
City Journal ^ | July 8, 2020 | Christopher F. Rufo

Posted on 07/09/2020 6:08:21 AM PDT by karpov

Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy” and “interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.” Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.

At the beginning of the session, the trainers explain that white people have internalized a sense of racial superiority, which has made them unable to access their “humanity” and caused “harm and violence” to people of color. The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles. In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.

Once the diversity trainers have established this basic conceptual framework, they encourage white employees to “practice self-talk that affirms [their] complicity in racism” and work on “undoing [their] own whiteness.” As part of this process, white employees must abandon their “white normative behavior” and learn to let go of their “comfort,” “physical safety,” “social status,” and “relationships with some other white people.” As writer James Lindsay has pointed out, this is not the language of human resources; it is the language of cult programming—persuading members they are defective in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating them from previous relationships.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: antiwhiteracism; caucasian; diversity; diversitytraining; peopleofcolor; racism; redefiningwords; seattle; whiterace
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To: karpov

They are fascist bullies


21 posted on 07/09/2020 9:20:12 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: karpov

Seattle taking a page fro, the Chinese Communist “re-education” program.

A violation of the Constitutional Right of Free Speech and the Right of Privacy


22 posted on 07/10/2020 5:48:56 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: karpov

Tucker Carlson: Excellent 3 minute video re Seattle’s race baiting: “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness” training for white employees

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3863592/posts

Here’s the Twitter link to the 3 minute Tucker Carlson video clip: https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1281426779605876738


23 posted on 07/10/2020 9:58:48 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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