Posted on 11/25/2021 6:09:57 PM PST by lowbridge
As The Salvation Army launches its Red Kettle Campaign this holiday season, some of its long-time donors are withdrawing their support from the 156-year old charitable organization citing its newly embraced "woke" ideology as the reason.
Of great concern to loyal supporters and faithful Salvationists is the initiative dubbed "Let's Talk About Racism." In a nutshell, its curriculum outlines the Christian church's alleged racial collusion and provides action steps to analyze and combat racism through an "anti-racist" lens while incorporating Critical Race Theory.
Definitions of institutional and systemic racism are included while real or perceived differences in life outcomes ("inequities") are attributable not to individual effort and other circumstances, but to discrimination. Sections address topics including police brutality, health care and Black unemployment linking such topics to "racial inequity."
That's troublesome for those who note The Salvation Army has been a leader in confronting racism long before the rest of the country and over five decades before the civil rights movement. And they're asking why then should members of an organization built by the Christian faith to actually assist people of all races in need, be repentant of behavior they never perpetuated?"
In my estimation, CRT is a Trojan horse taking in well-intentioned Christian enterprises that—because they care about justice and oppose oppression—naively promote the most serious threat to biblical Christianity I have seen in 50 years," wrote Christian apologist and radio talk show host Greg Koukl in a Facebook post earlier this month.
Entitled An Open Letter to The Salvation Army, Koukl prefaces the post by informing TSA that he is terminating his monthly donations and directing them to another organization. Koukl is also the founder and president of the Stand to Reason, a non-profit religious organization
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I certainly have...
Will never go back...
We’ve donated yearly, multiple bags of clothing, hundreds of dollars, cash donations in the bell ringer pot.
I’m white. F**k ‘em.
Money’s going to Fisher House from now on (already a long-time donor there. I tell my kids to donate to them instead of worrying about giving me Christmas gifts).
Exactly. Let them set up shop in the hood, and see how well it goes for them.
The Salvation Army was one of the last that I would donate to. Now they have stepped in it. Enjoy your Wokeness Initiative.
Been going on for decades.
FIRST, you have to get their attention. THE BEST way to do that is to shut off the money spigots. THEN you can have the rational conversation....
The Salvation Army died the day they canceled a convention at one of President Trump’s properties. I’ll never give to them again.
They’re already destroying themselves by joining with the left.
The only thing they will understand is reduced funding.
Did they at least pay for any of it? That’s stealing if they did not.
We gave regularly to them....but when Trump became President, the Salvation Army had a national fundraiser at Trump’s resort Mar-A-Lago. After Trump won and the heat from the left came, Salvation Army dumped their business with Mar A Lago.
They were too afraid to stand with a man they had dealt with for many years.
I wrote them a snail mail letter telling them my monies were going elsewhere.
The left ruins everything.
FReepers wanting to sign the petition urging the SA to get back on track will find the petition here: https://colorusunited.org/salvation-army-petition/
That had to be the dumbest move in their histoir. Do they really think they can afford to dismiss over half their customers?
What goes woke
turns to sh#t.
DJT
If you go to the Salvation Army website main page, you’ll find a menu hyper link for Social Justice. On the Social Justice web page, you’ll find another a hyperlink for training materials. All the controversy is based on what the training materials say.
There is a disclaimer at the beginning stating, in so many words, that the contents do not represent…blah, blah, blah. It is typical CYA verbiage intended to insulate management just in case …
The training materials are a course of instruction for staff and volunteers. They were prepared by an outside consulting group probably under contract through the Salvation Army‘s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness (DEI) staff office.
Whatever they are actually named, DEI offices are the primary vector of “woke” infection for these organizations. They are established usually on advice of corporate counsel out of fear of criticism (due to alleged inaction) and perhaps a desire to burnish the corporate image through virtue signaling. (Worst yet, the leadership may actually believe they are helping right historic social wrongs.)
So, all the urine in the air is being caused by an outside specialist consulting firm which prepared materials for the Salvation Army because their DEI staff decided it would be a good idea to have some training and upper level management agreed. The outside consulting firm specializes in racial/marginalized group grievance politics. It has already been paid and so has no real skin in the game.
Upper level management may or may not have seen the training materials before they were actually posted online. Maybe corporate counsel did see them and got the disclaimer inserted.
Now, however, the controversy is broken publicly and upper management will have to back their people (whether they actually agree with what’s being said in the materials or not) in order save face.
What to do? Hold leadership accountable. Forget the DEI office. It’s populated with race and gender-studies degree holders who have one answer for all issues: our opponents are all racists. Forget corporate HR as well. They will just point to leadership as approving the plan; they only implemented the plan developed by “experts” under the leadership of the corporate DEI office.
Leadership, leadership, leadership must be the focus of complaints. They must be the ones who feel the heat and must do the explaining.
Direct your ire at them. Nobody else is acceptable. Once the top leaders understand how offensive this material is, they will also understand the damage that it is doing to the organization.
Only then will things change.
Great idea
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“Hit ‘em in the pocketbook. It’s the only language the terminally WOKE understand.”
Fine to redirect your donations elsewhere but it WILL NOT change progressives. They value ideology more than money. We see this time after time when even CEOs of major corporations side with leftist and progressive causes knowing fully well that the company’s bottom line will suffer.
Pretty much all thrift stores do that.
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