Diversity Training Disaster

[Kamaji]

Diversity Training Disaster

John Stossel
Mar 22, 2023

All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion.

All big companies!

Really.

It sounds responsible. But it turns out DEI courses are often useless and sometimes racist.

First comes groveling.

My new video about DEI shows a conference that begins with a "land acknowledgement." A Microsoft employee apologizes for taking land from "the Sammamish, the Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Suquamish, Muckleshoot" and more.

I guess it's a nice gesture. But they aren't giving the land back!

Companies go through the motions.

"They feel like they have to," says York College professor Erec Smith. "They have to signal to the world that they're doing something."

They hope it will protect them from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and lawsuits.

Smith was once a diversity officer. He left the position because he thought it was "useless."

Or worse. "It makes people less likely to interact with people unlike them," he says. "It's a minefield now."

At diversity trainings, employees learn about "microaggressions," speech that's subtly biased.

"If you ask somebody what they do for a living, somehow that's racist," says Smith. "If you learn that, then why would you take a chance? ... 'I'm going to silence myself' ... not talk to Black people."

A Coca-Cola diversity training tells employees, "Be less white." "Being white" includes being "oppressive, arrogant, defensive, ignorant."

"That is by no means a white thing," says Smith. "The point is to demonize the other side."

Worst of all, despite the $3 billion spent on DEI training by American companies today, DEI trainings don't do what they're supposed to do.

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Source:  https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2023/03/22/diversity-training-disaster-n2620963

[Cyber Liberty]

If one refuses to talk to black people,  they'll get you for "creating a hostile environment."

[Smokin Joe]

While my ancestors received a land grant from the Crown, they also purchased that land from both of the tribes who were fighting over it.
I don't owe anyone jack over stolen land.

This whole premise fails right at the starting gate.

[mountaineer]

In Microsoft's official 2023 Diversity & Inclusion report, they openly admit that they are paying white people LESS than other ethnic groups in the name of "pay equity."

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1760817144781021650

[Fishrrman]

Glad I'm not working any more.

The company I retired from had a 2-day mandatory "diversity training" program for all employees.

I never went.

For some reason, they never assigned me to go.
I sense that there was someone "up in the office" who knew I wasn't interested...