Rod DREHER
Christopher Rufo reports on an insane grift a white “diversity consultant” is running:
Last month, a private diversity-consulting firm conducted a training titled “Difficult Conversations About Race in Troubling Times” for several federal agencies. The training called on white employees at the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Credit Union Administration and the Office of the Comptroller to pledge “allyship [sic] amid the George Floyd Tragedy.”
According to a trove of whistleblower documents I’ve reviewed, the training begins with the premise that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” and hold narratives that “don’t support the dismantling of racist institutions.” Therefore, the trainers argue, white federal employees must “struggle to own their racism” and “invest in race-based growth.”
The trainers then ask “white managers” to create “safe spaces,” where black employees can explain “what it means to be black” and to be “seen in their pain.” White staffers are instructed to keep silent and to “sit in the discomfort” of their racism. If any conflicts arise, the trainers insist that whites “don’t get to decide when someone is being too emotional, too rash [or] too mean.” Whites are told they can’t protest if a person of color “responds to their oppression in a way [they] don’t like.”
Howard Ross, the consultant who created the training, has been a fixture in what might be called the diversity-industrial complex. Since 2006, he has billed the feds more than $5 million for trainings.
In 2011, he billed the General Services Administration $3 million for “consulting services.” NASA coughed up $500,000 for “power and privilege sexual-orientation workshops.”
Read it all.
That article (in the New York Post) is based on an amazing series of tweets by Chris Rufo, featuring screenshots of the training material. For example, Howard Ross directs federal employees to think obsessively about race:
You can’t even object to this stuff; your opposition only proves how racist you really are:
The trainers tell white employees they must “provide unconditional solidarity” for people of color.
Whites “don’t get to decide when someone is being too emotional, too rash, [or] too mean” and cannot protest if a POC “responds to their oppression in a way [they] don’t like.” pic.twitter.com/PnAuqiKOxC
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 15, 2020
And:
What if a white employee disagrees?
They will be told that “white silence has been one of the most powerful detractors from real progress in social justice” and that whites must “sit in the discomfort” of their own internalized racism and white supremacy. pic.twitter.com/ugmxYFVOUC
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 15, 2020
See it all @realchrisrufo.
Our government is paying millions to this grifter to train employees in racial spite. Unbelievable. Howard Ross isn’t a fly-by-night operator either. Here he is giving a talk to Google employees.
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