There is a saying in computer circles, “Garbage in, garbage out.” That saying also applies to learning and governance. A person’s basic perspective on life will determine their success, their ability to get along with people, and their general happiness. All of us at one time or another have avoided someone who simply is not pleased with or grateful for anything. Their warped perspective has prevented them from being happy. Well, we are about to see another warped perspective invade an area of our government.<\/p>\n
Yesterday The City Journal<\/a> posted an article titled, “Cult Programming in Seattle.” The subheading on the title is, “The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their \u201cinternalized racial superiority.\u201d<\/span>” This sort of thinking (and training) is not going to promote racial harmony. As soon as you accuse someone of something negative because of their race, you are making a racist statement. It really doesn’t matter what race you are or what race you are attacking–it is a racist statement. What is the difference between saying ‘you are racist because you are white’ and ‘you are less intelligent because you are black’?<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Last month, the City of Seattle\u2019s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting \u201cwhite City employees\u201d to attend a training session on \u201cInterrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,\u201d a program designed to help white workers examine their \u201ccomplicity in the system of white supremacy\u201d and \u201cinterrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.\u201d Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.<\/strong><\/p>\n 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 \u201chumanity\u201d and caused \u201charm and violence\u201d to people of color. The trainers claim that \u201cindividualism,\u201d \u201cperfectionism,\u201d \u201cintellectualization,\u201d and \u201cobjectivity\u201d 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 \u201cblackness\u201d and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of \u201cwhiteness\u201d\u2014that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, the idea that white is evil and black is good is racist, just as the reverse is racist.<\/p>\n The article continues:<\/p>\n Once the diversity trainers have established this basic conceptual framework, they encourage white employees to \u201cpractice self-talk that affirms [their] complicity in racism\u201d and work on \u201cundoing [their] own whiteness.\u201d As part of this process, white employees must abandon their \u201cwhite normative behavior\u201d and learn to let go of their \u201ccomfort,\u201d \u201cphysical safety,\u201d \u201csocial status,\u201d and \u201crelationships with some other white people.\u201d As writer James Lindsay has pointed out, this is not the language of human resources; it is the language of cult<\/a> programming\u2014persuading members they are defective in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating them from previous relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s important to point out that this \u201cinterrupting whiteness\u201d training is not an anomaly. In recent years, nearly every department of Seattle city government has been recruited into the ideological fight against \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d As I have documented<\/a>, the city\u2019s homelessness agency hosted a conference on how to \u201cdecolonize [their] collective work\u201d; the school system released a curriculum explaining that \u201cmath is a tool for oppression\u201d; and the city-owned power company hired a team of bureaucrats to fight \u201cstructural racism\u201d within their organization. Dozens of private companies now offer diversity training to public agencies. The idea that all whites have unconscious, \u201cimplicit bias\u201d that they must vigilantly program<\/a> themselves to overcome has become an article of faith across corporate boardrooms, academia, and law-enforcement agencies, even though the premise is unscientific and impossible to verify<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The endgame is to make Seattle\u2019s municipal government the arbiter of the new orthodoxy, and then work outward. At the end of the session on \u201cinternalized racial superiority,\u201d the diversity trainers outline strategies for converting outsiders and recommend specific \u201cpractices for interrupting others\u2019 whiteness.\u201d In effect, the activists have organized an ideological pyramid scheme\u2014using public dollars to establish their authority within the government, then using that authority to recruit others into the program. As Lindsay writes, \u201cthe goal is no longer to indoctrinate on what is \u2018rightthink\u2019 and \u2018wrongthink.\u2019 It is to make the [subject\u2019s] thinking be completely in line with the view of the world described by the cult doctrine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is chilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a saying in computer circles, “Garbage in, garbage out.” That saying also applies to learning and governance. A person’s basic perspective on life will determine their success, their ability to get along with people, and their general happiness. … Continue reading