July 10, 2020 • 9 mins
The City of Seattle's Office of Civil Rights wants white people to know that they're all racist. And, congratulations--the city's new education program can help fix the problem. A&G have the details on an effort that should be rejected immediately.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is now officially an inferior race, according to, among others,
the City of sack of of Seattle, around the city
of Seattle, and a number of other authorities, college campuses, etcetera.
Uh In Christopher Ruffo, who tweeted about this and wrote
a piece for City Journal UM, points out that what
we're about to talk about has all of the um
(00:23):
the earmarks of cult programming, persuading members they are defective
in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating
them from previous relationships. Uh. This, this segment is mostly
for those good, well meaning Americans who think, well, I'm
not a racist, and I think racism is awful, so
(00:44):
I better get on board with this anti racism stuff.
Here is what this is. It is absolutely an insidious,
indefensible Marxist philosophy designed to seize power. And to the
extent that there's a shred of truth in any of it,
I would see. Just it's like saying, you know, Hitler
built the auto bonn and that was good, or while
(01:04):
in those Chinese concentration camps they are learning job skills.
I mean, it's just it's an evil, evil, evil. Christopher Ruffo,
who was a writer who was tweeting about this. The
city of the City of Seattle held a training session
for white employees called and I quote interrupting Internalized racial
superiority and Whiteness. So I did a public records request
(01:25):
to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through
it together. In this threat first, diversity trainers informed white
participants that several qualities and ideas are vestiges of internalized
racial oppression. For instance, perfectionism, individualism is internalized racial superiority.
(01:51):
Thinking that the individual is the key element of society
or individual rights. That's internalized racial superiority. Uh, silence, intellectualization.
How would you react if you got called into a
meeting and you're told it's a mandatory meeting. You go
in there, you sit down, and they start with that
(02:11):
sort of stuff. I would walk out. I would walk out.
And I'm not saying it's because I'm such a brave
and noble crusader. After truth, I can't sit there and
listen to the racism. I won't. I just I don't
have it in me. It's an interesting thing to say
to a group of people, right, Yeah, So individualism, perfectionism,
(02:37):
are internalized racial superiority. Sometimes both sides of the coin
are oppression. Are white employees speaking too much, that's probably
the internalized racial superiority of imposition or paternalism. Are white
employees speaking too little, that's oppression too, because silence is violence.
(02:58):
So get that right. And this gets back to what
James Lindsay has been writing about so eloquently. The idea
is that you can't possibly win or be right. The
idea is that you are on your knees begging for forgiveness.
Moving along, what's next? The City of Seattle diversity trainers
encourage white employees to quote, practice self talk that affirms
(03:20):
their complicity and racism, and work on undoing your own whiteness.
Can I just get my reports done on time? And
absolutely not? Racism is not our fault, but we are responsible,
U bah bah bah all right, So that's that's you
have to engage in self talk that undos your whiteness.
(03:43):
Let me click over here, um cultivating networks of other
white people who are practicing anti racist accomplicehood. God, the
number of bizarro social class terms that these people throw
around is unintentionally hilarious. So you can talk through your
struggles in the work of undoing your own whiteness and
(04:03):
showing up his allies and accomplices. If can you imagine
if you changed whiteness to blackness or Mexican nous or
Asian nous. So making assumptions about people based on their
skin color is a definition of racism. Correct? So um.
But but do they believe that it's something like genetic
(04:24):
or do you just learn it from such an early
age or is it is it in my DNA as
I come out of the womb? Or am I just
taught it from the very beginning? I think they'd argue
the latter. Yeah, what happens after the thought exercise, It's
time to do the work rights ruffo. The trainers ask
white employees to let go of uh, these are your
(04:45):
whiteness aspects, I guess. Let go of comfort whatever that means.
Let go of guaranteed physical safety, Let go of control
over the land, social status, let go of fitting in
all the time, be willing to be rejected by other
white people. Let go of accepting jobs and promotions when
(05:08):
we are not qualified. Wowe you know, And we'll get
back to this. But I want to point out want
to and maybe this is useful to you too. The
whole idea of white privilege is so stupid and bass
awkwards in that it is unquestionably easier in some ways
(05:32):
for white people to manage their way through American society
in a lot of cases than uh than than black people.
There's less to deal with in is in particularly in
some places. You know, if it comes to getting into
a university, you're better off being a minority. There. There
are exceptions to what I'm saying, but the idea that
you want to take away constitutional rights and comfort and
(05:55):
safety from white people is insane and obviously the the
other approaches, no, you have to think, okay, listen, all right,
I I live in a pretty safe neighborhood, which is good.
People who don't live in safe neighborhoods they should be
able to. So let's give privilege and rights to everyone,
(06:16):
as opposed to try to bludgeon people out of well.
As they said, you have to let go of safety.
And when they go, then they go through a flow
chart that outlines how white people quote cause harm to
people of color, show up small and in a into
authentic inauthentic, and are unable to access their humanity. In
(06:36):
some cases, people are wondering if they're really white, so
they pass out a data sheet called assimilation into Whiteness.
Are you of Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian, Irish descent?
You're definitely white? No getting out of that, and then uh,
as they reported, the invitation for this training was strictly
(06:56):
segregated to white city employees. The goal is to teach
them how they have complicity in the system of white
supremacy and must be held accountable to black, indigenous, and
people of color. I can't believe you can even call
a meeting or ever should call a meeting based on race. Ever,
have a meeting where you say we want all the
blank people to show up right now, right? That seems crazy.
(07:17):
So how do you know when you've successfully interrupted your whiteness?
That's a phrase when you implicate yourself and racism when
other white people may be angry when you have stopped
your white normative behavior whatever that means. Do they have
an explanation of that not having definitions as part of
(07:39):
the game, right right? Uh? Okay? Yeah, so that you
just you have to follow along and get on your
knees and beg for forgiveness. So far, the city of
Seattle has refused to provide the names of the diversity trainers,
the budget for the program, or the video of the sessions.
Christopher Rufo says, I'm gonna keep pushing because this is
(07:59):
exactly the kind of thought policing they want to implement everywhere.
This sort of this new cultural revolution is being fought
via corporate hr city diversity training in public school curriculums.
When you find something like this in your community, expose it,
criticize it, mock it, and reject it. That's gonna be
(08:20):
one of the interesting things if school gets up and running,
how much of this is in public schools around the country.
A lot. Go to your school board meeting, folks. I
know you're busy, I know you don't have time. I
know you don't want to, but your kids are going
to be indoctrinated into the most sick, twisted philosophies. And again,
(08:42):
this is being promulgated by Marxists. They just want you
on your knees, that it's it's like a cult. They
convince you of your flaws and that you have to reform,
and only they can tell you when you're reformed, and
you just keep begging and begging and begging, and why
you're on your knees. They seize power has nothing to
do with race. It's a it's a pretext, it's a
(09:06):
it's a it's a it's a head fake. God, reject
this stuff.
There is now officially an inferior race, according to, among others,
the City of sack of of Seattle, around the city
of Seattle, and a number of other authorities, college campuses, etcetera.
Uh In Christopher Ruffo, who tweeted about this and wrote
a piece for City Journal UM, points out that what
we're about to talk about has all of the um
(00:23):
the earmarks of cult programming, persuading members they are defective
in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating
them from previous relationships. Uh. This, this segment is mostly
for those good, well meaning Americans who think, well, I'm
not a racist, and I think racism is awful, so
(00:44):
I better get on board with this anti racism stuff.
Here is what this is. It is absolutely an insidious,
indefensible Marxist philosophy designed to seize power. And to the
extent that there's a shred of truth in any of it,
I would see. Just it's like saying, you know, Hitler
built the auto bonn and that was good, or while
(01:04):
in those Chinese concentration camps they are learning job skills.
I mean, it's just it's an evil, evil, evil. Christopher Ruffo,
who was a writer who was tweeting about this. The
city of the City of Seattle held a training session
for white employees called and I quote interrupting Internalized racial
superiority and Whiteness. So I did a public records request
(01:25):
to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through
it together. In this threat first, diversity trainers informed white
participants that several qualities and ideas are vestiges of internalized
racial oppression. For instance, perfectionism, individualism is internalized racial superiority.
(01:51):
Thinking that the individual is the key element of society
or individual rights. That's internalized racial superiority. Uh, silence, intellectualization.
How would you react if you got called into a
meeting and you're told it's a mandatory meeting. You go
in there, you sit down, and they start with that
(02:11):
sort of stuff. I would walk out. I would walk out.
And I'm not saying it's because I'm such a brave
and noble crusader. After truth, I can't sit there and
listen to the racism. I won't. I just I don't
have it in me. It's an interesting thing to say
to a group of people, right, Yeah, So individualism, perfectionism,
(02:37):
are internalized racial superiority. Sometimes both sides of the coin
are oppression. Are white employees speaking too much, that's probably
the internalized racial superiority of imposition or paternalism. Are white
employees speaking too little, that's oppression too, because silence is violence.
(02:58):
So get that right. And this gets back to what
James Lindsay has been writing about so eloquently. The idea
is that you can't possibly win or be right. The
idea is that you are on your knees begging for forgiveness.
Moving along, what's next? The City of Seattle diversity trainers
encourage white employees to quote, practice self talk that affirms
(03:20):
their complicity and racism, and work on undoing your own whiteness.
Can I just get my reports done on time? And
absolutely not? Racism is not our fault, but we are responsible,
U bah bah bah all right, So that's that's you
have to engage in self talk that undos your whiteness.
(03:43):
Let me click over here, um cultivating networks of other
white people who are practicing anti racist accomplicehood. God, the
number of bizarro social class terms that these people throw
around is unintentionally hilarious. So you can talk through your
struggles in the work of undoing your own whiteness and
(04:03):
showing up his allies and accomplices. If can you imagine
if you changed whiteness to blackness or Mexican nous or
Asian nous. So making assumptions about people based on their
skin color is a definition of racism. Correct? So um.
But but do they believe that it's something like genetic
(04:24):
or do you just learn it from such an early
age or is it is it in my DNA as
I come out of the womb? Or am I just
taught it from the very beginning? I think they'd argue
the latter. Yeah, what happens after the thought exercise, It's
time to do the work rights ruffo. The trainers ask
white employees to let go of uh, these are your
(04:45):
whiteness aspects, I guess. Let go of comfort whatever that means.
Let go of guaranteed physical safety, Let go of control
over the land, social status, let go of fitting in
all the time, be willing to be rejected by other
white people. Let go of accepting jobs and promotions when
(05:08):
we are not qualified. Wowe you know, And we'll get
back to this. But I want to point out want
to and maybe this is useful to you too. The
whole idea of white privilege is so stupid and bass
awkwards in that it is unquestionably easier in some ways
(05:32):
for white people to manage their way through American society
in a lot of cases than uh than than black people.
There's less to deal with in is in particularly in
some places. You know, if it comes to getting into
a university, you're better off being a minority. There. There
are exceptions to what I'm saying, but the idea that
you want to take away constitutional rights and comfort and
(05:55):
safety from white people is insane and obviously the the
other approaches, no, you have to think, okay, listen, all right,
I I live in a pretty safe neighborhood, which is good.
People who don't live in safe neighborhoods they should be
able to. So let's give privilege and rights to everyone,
(06:16):
as opposed to try to bludgeon people out of well.
As they said, you have to let go of safety.
And when they go, then they go through a flow
chart that outlines how white people quote cause harm to
people of color, show up small and in a into
authentic inauthentic, and are unable to access their humanity. In
(06:36):
some cases, people are wondering if they're really white, so
they pass out a data sheet called assimilation into Whiteness.
Are you of Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian, Irish descent?
You're definitely white? No getting out of that, and then uh,
as they reported, the invitation for this training was strictly
(06:56):
segregated to white city employees. The goal is to teach
them how they have complicity in the system of white
supremacy and must be held accountable to black, indigenous, and
people of color. I can't believe you can even call
a meeting or ever should call a meeting based on race. Ever,
have a meeting where you say we want all the
blank people to show up right now, right? That seems crazy.
(07:17):
So how do you know when you've successfully interrupted your whiteness?
That's a phrase when you implicate yourself and racism when
other white people may be angry when you have stopped
your white normative behavior whatever that means. Do they have
an explanation of that not having definitions as part of
(07:39):
the game, right right? Uh? Okay? Yeah, so that you
just you have to follow along and get on your
knees and beg for forgiveness. So far, the city of
Seattle has refused to provide the names of the diversity trainers,
the budget for the program, or the video of the sessions.
Christopher Rufo says, I'm gonna keep pushing because this is
(07:59):
exactly the kind of thought policing they want to implement everywhere.
This sort of this new cultural revolution is being fought
via corporate hr city diversity training in public school curriculums.
When you find something like this in your community, expose it,
criticize it, mock it, and reject it. That's gonna be
(08:20):
one of the interesting things if school gets up and running,
how much of this is in public schools around the country.
A lot. Go to your school board meeting, folks. I
know you're busy, I know you don't have time. I
know you don't want to, but your kids are going
to be indoctrinated into the most sick, twisted philosophies. And again,
(08:42):
this is being promulgated by Marxists. They just want you
on your knees, that it's it's like a cult. They
convince you of your flaws and that you have to reform,
and only they can tell you when you're reformed, and
you just keep begging and begging and begging, and why
you're on your knees. They seize power has nothing to
do with race. It's a it's a pretext, it's a
(09:06):
it's a it's a it's a head fake. God, reject
this stuff.
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