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Despite its status as one of the wokest companies in the world, including maintaining an official program to inject critical race theory into the field of programming, tech giant Google is facing a major lawsuit alleging it discriminates against black employees. Even among the far-left tech giants of Silicon Valley, Google has a reputation for wokeness. The company invited Robin DiAngelo to give a talk on “white fragility” years before her presence became commonplace in corporate boardrooms. Its managers gave employees instruction manuals on recognizing “white dominant culture.” It maintains an entire program dedicated to “machine learning fairness,” the new...

Question: I recently was in a situation at work where a coworker made transphobic statements about a customer (out of earshot, thank God). He said things like, "That person isn't really a woman," and went on to mention how proud he was of himself for being able to "tell." What are the best ways to react to such comments? I'm a queer white woman who's out, and I wanted to engage my coworker in conversation as a peer so that our work relationship can continue to be positive, and so that we can have the kind of dialogue that eventually...

" ...a manager who fired Muslims who asked for time to pray during the day. And then there's the account of a well-intentioned Florida healthcare company that scheduled its fall festival during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when followers fast from dawn until dusk. "They had all of these events planned including wonderful meals for employees," says Lobna Ismail( an American-born Muslim woman of Egyptian descent), president of Connecting Cultures, a Maryland-based consulting firm that develops corporate-training programs. "The only problem was that it was all scheduled during the work days [during Ramadan] and most of the Muslims were fasting...