Offended officers leave multicultural training session

AP (via WTNH) ^ | 9/20/2002 | AP

[WindMinstrel]

Hartford-AP Sept.20,2002 7:30 AM) _ Five white Hartford police officers walked out of a recent multicultural training session because they say the black instructor was biased.

The officers say the sensitivity seminar's leader was biased against the United States, authority figures and whites.

The seminar became a shouting match between the leader and officers.

The session was led by Margaret Steinegger-Keyser of the Center for Conflict Transformation in Hartford. She's a native of South Africa. The officers say she told the gathering that her country has become more of a true democracy, and isn't as repressive of minorities.

Steinegger-Keyeser says she didn't say anything against the US, and she's sorry it was interpreted that way. She's lived in the US for four years.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Never trust a women with three names.

[CWRWinger]

Take a Confederate flag and firearm to class next time.

[Poohbah]

Well, have you ever heard of Irish Alzheimer's?

That's where you forget everything but your grudges...

[CWRWinger]

She's a native of South Africa.

She's also probably an ANC communist scumbag. Deport this trash.

[yarddog]

I worked for the Air Force for a few months in 1973-74, we were required to attend some sort of civil rights training. It was pretty disgusting although probably not as bad as this class in Hartford.

As a lowly GS-7, I pretty much had to sit there and listen. I was pleasantly surprised when a full Colonel who was also an MD, got up, announced he was "not going to listen to any more of this garbage" and left. I guess he figured they could fire him if they wanted to.

[WindMinstrel]

Take a Confederate flag and firearm to class next time.

Buahahaaa! That'd be effin' beautiful!

[MainFrame65]

IBM inflicted one of these sessions on our local office several years ago. I listened quietly until we got to the part where we each were supposed to adopt a "minority" role and act out our part according to the stereotype for that role presumed by the facilitator.

That was too much. I told her that I could not presume to know the thoughts and feelings of any other person, and nobody had a right to assign presumed thoughts and feelings to me in order to place limits on my behaviour. I asked if any person there had ever observed any antisocial act or utterance on my part, and promised a personal apology on the spot for every instance specified. Nobody did. I said that I am fully responsible for how I act and what I say, but I answer to nobody for what I think.

I told them that their exercise was the worst kind of stereotyping, because it actually encouraged the Euromales like me to ASSIGN presumably negative behaviours to others. I would not do that, in any situation, real or imagined.

That was the end of the session, and I am not aware that they ever did another in that office. But IBM has become the most politically correct company this side of Disney since I retired, so I suspect the dam has broken.

[vetvetdoug]

I got the same piece of $h!t from the USAF in "sensitivity" training. They told me the Black Panthers were a group of do gooders and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were a radical white supremicist organization. I was threatened with an Article 15 when I openly disagreed and gave examples of how the instructors' information was incorrect. Most of the officers and enlisted in the group knew the whole "sensitivity training" was Bs meant to appease a few radical blacks on active duty in the USAF and give the Sergeant a job (probably the only one he could have). Talk about a waste of taxpayers money.

[HeadOn]

My condolences to you. But you seem to have handled it very well. Good job. (And thanks - it was "therapeutic" for me to read your story...)

[1Old Pro]

It's about time! More people should say no to the pc stooges.

Yep

[MainFrame65]

I gotta admit, I have seldom felt better than when that meeting broke up, before or since!

[aculeus]

Meanwhile in the home of this commissar ....



BBC NEWS

Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 09:26 GMT 10:26 UK

(snipped)


There has been a spate of baby rapes in South Africa, where some traditional healers, or sangomas, advise those suffering from Aids that sex with a virgin will cure them.

Nationwide protests

South Africa has the highest number of people with Aids in the world.


Rapes of babies have triggered protests across the country and left South Africans reeling with horror.

Some have called for the return of capital punishment.

About 21,000 cases of child rape were reported to police in South Africa last year.

Children under 11 are the victims in 15% of all rapes in South Africa, according to police statistics.

Convictions are secured in just 9% of all rape cases.

[WindMinstrel]

so you're saying that you disagree with her? How insensitive of you!