The New York Times keeps lying about the Trump administration, which bans “diversity training”. In a September story, the paper combined “racial sensitivity” training with the darker concept of “critical racial theory,” which was used for compulsory indoctrination by the executive branch until it was banned by the Trump administration.
Another, similarly dishonest story by Hailey Fuchs was published in the Wednesday edition: “Trump Order On Training Chills Efforts On Diversity”. Fuchs complained that the racist sauce train, where everyone and everything is racist, has suddenly come to a standstill and was lamented with a special group of victims:
This summer was like no other for the diversity consulting industry. Amid the racist reckoning sparked by the death of George Floyd, a wave of executives began to look critically at their companies, and advisors like Melanie Miller and Loretta VanPelt were inundated with work.
Then President Trump stepped in.
An executive order passed in late September when Mr Trump stepped up his accused attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters and “political correctness” banned the federal government and its contractors, subcontractors and fellows from the offer certain diversity training on racist and gender prejudice – doctrines that the Order described as “divisive” and “vicious ideology”.
Such orders, initiated by the the fixations of the president at the moment, were staple foods in the Trump years and often lead nowhere. Like others, Mr. Trump’s focus on diversity training seems to have arisen from an interview with Fox News when Christopher F. Rufo, a conservative scholar at the Discovery Institute, told Tucker Carlson of the “cult indoctrination” of the “critical race” theory ”Programs in government.
Apparently, this is bad news:
But this time around, the impact on American business, science, and government has impacted at a remarkable rate. Two government agencies canceled their meetings with Ms. Miller and Ms. VanPelt within weeks, and two companies suspended their training. Two more could follow, said the advisors.
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The “Executive Order to Combat Racial and Gender Stereotypes” appears transparently political, the president’s recent efforts to bolster support from his largely white base ahead of the November elections. When asked about this during the presidential debate last month, Trump said such training was “racist” and “teaches people that our country is a terrible place”.
Fuchs tried to incorporate the move towards workplace health into alleged racist appeals from Trump.
Both implicitly and explicitly Mr Trump made the race a centerpiece of his re-electionand warns local voters of the dangers of low-income housing and the spread of “anarchy” in cities. During the debate he refused to condemn white supremacy and called on the Proud Boys, an organization linked to white supremacy and violence, to “stand down and stand by”.
Beyond the rhetoric, the president has mobilized the federal government to pursue his efforts.
The next paragraph maintains the misleading tone. This is not just “diversity training” but “critical racial theory”. “CRT” is a theoretical construct that is imported directly from the radical university environment into the corporate world. It condemns all whites as racist, that American society is structurally racist, etc., without considering whether such propaganda actually improves racial relations.
The offensive against diversity training advances these individual efforts. White House Budget Director Russell T. Vought informed leaders that they should make significant changes to diversity training that was “un-American propaganda.” Mr. Vought urged the agencies to identify training programs on white privilege or “critical racial theory,” which states that racism is fundamental to American institutions, and training programs that suggest the United States is inherently racist or are evil, or that it is a race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.
In Mr. Trump’s ordinance, a Finance Department seminar was quoted as advocating the idea that “virtually all whites, regardless of how” woken up “they are, contribute to racism.
Apparently only slightly scared “diversity advisors” have correct opinions about the history of our country.
Carole Copeland Thomas, a diversity consultant in Lakeville, Massachusetts who had a client canceled after the executive order, called his descriptions “misrepresentations of the country’s history. ”She was concerned about the consequences of making a mistake on the caution side at the expense of marginalized groups in the workplace.
“It brings a degree of fear to the eyes and ears of federal companies, federal agencies who want to do the right thing,” said Ms. Copeland Thomas. “The cost will not provide opportunities for people of color. “
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