Raytheon tells white employees to pay ‘reparations,’ promote defunding police, confront ‘privilege’ and more in new critical race training https://americanmilitarynews.com/20...ilege-and-more-in-new-critical-race-training/ On Tuesday, prominent critical race theory critic Christopher Rufo shared documents reportedly obtained from within the defense contractor Raytheon, which tells white employees to “identify their privilege” and provides a list of resources to “understand and share what ‘defund the police’ really means,” “decolonize your bookshelf” and “participate in reparations.” Rufo tweeted, “SCOOP: Raytheon, the nation’s second-largest defense contractor, has launched a critical race theory program that encourages white employees to confront their ‘privilege,’ reject the principle of ‘equality,’ and ‘defund the police.’ Let’s review the internal documents.” “Last summer, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes launched the Stronger Together campaign instructing employees on ‘becoming an anti-racist today.’ He signed a corporate diversity statement and then asked all Raytheon employees to sign the pledge and ‘check [their] own biases,'” Rufo continued. “The program is centered on ‘intersectionality,’ a core component of critical race theory that divides the world into competing identity groups, with race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other categories defining an individual’s place within the hierarchy of oppression.” Rufo tweeted, “Raytheon then asks white employees to deconstruct their identities and ‘identify [their] privilege.’ The company argues that white, straight, Christian men are at the top of the oppression hierarchy—and must work on ‘recognizing [their] privilege’ and ‘step aside’ for minorities.” “Raytheon tells employees to ‘identify everyone’s race’ during workplace conversations,” Rufo’s Twitter thread continued. “Whites must ‘listen to the experiences’ of ‘marginalized identities’ and should ‘give [those with such identities] the floor in meetings or on calls, even if it means silencing yourself.'” “Next, Raytheon explicitly instructs employees to oppose ‘equality,’ defined as ‘treating each person the same . . . regardless of their differences,’ and strive instead for ‘equity,’ which ‘focuses on the equality of the outcome,'” Rufo tweeted. Rufo included a purported Raytheon internal slide that said, “Equality is a noble goal. Equal treatment and access to opportunities help each of us perform our best within a shared set of parameters. But we really need to be striving for equity, where we focus on the equality of the outcome, not the equality of the experience by taking individual needs and skills into account.” “Finally,” Rufo’s tweet thread concludes, “in a collection of recommended resources, the company encourages white employees to ‘defund the police,’ ‘participate in reparations,’ ‘decolonize your bookshelf,’ ‘join a local ‘white space.'” The slide referring to defunding the police states, “Understand and share what ‘defund the police’ really means. It’s about a new, smarter approach to public safety, wherein we demilitarize the police and allocate resources into education, social service, and other root causes of crimes.” The slide calling to “participate in reparations” provides a link to a Facebook group on the topic and states, “Remember reparations isn’t just monetary — share your time, skills, knowledge, connections, etc. Thank you to Clyanna Blyanna for suggesting this addition.” Raytheon has not responded to an American Military News request for comment at the time of publishing. Raytheon isn’t the first U.S. defense contractor to draw scrutiny over its diversity training efforts. In June, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on Lockheed Martin to address reports that more than 1,000 of its employees were made to attend and in which company employees broadly linked the term “white men” with terms like “racist,” “privileged,” and “KKK.” Rufo tweeted he would be appearing on Fox host Tucker Carlson’s show Tuesday night “to discuss this explosive story.” Carlson recently criticized U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley for comments in which Milley defended teaching critical race theory in the military and appeared to link the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol by demonstrators to “white rage.”
Rufo described his strategy to oppose critical race theory as intentionally using the term to conflate various left-wing race-related ideas in order to create a negative association.[9] Rufo said that "[w]e will eventually turn [critical race theory] toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.'"[10] Rufo has described intersectionality as "a hard left academic theory that reduces people to a network of racial, gender and sexual orientation identities and intersect in complex ways and determine whether you are an oppressor or oppressed."[9] According to Kimberlé Crenshaw, an influential figure in critical race theory, what Rufo and Republicans "are calling critical race theory is a whole range of things, most of which no one would sign on to, and many of the things in it are simply about racism."[8] Through interviews with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Rufo reportedly influenced the Donald Trump administration to issue an executive order to prohibit federal agencies from having diversity training that addressed topics such as systemic racism, white privilege and critical race theory.[8][2][18] The administration described it as "divisive, anti-American propaganda."[18] The ban was revoked by President Joe Biden on his first day in office.[2][18] The fight then continued at the state level, with Republican legislators putting forward bans on Critical Race Theory.[19] He has appeared multiple times on Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Ingraham Angle.[20][21][22] According to New Yorker writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Rufo's story on racially divided bias-training sessions in Seattle was a “phenomenon” that “helped to generate more leaks from across the country” about the contents of courses and diversity training programs.[8] According to the Washington Post and Snopes, Rufo has misrepresented the contents of diversity training programs and course curricula.[9][23] For example, Rufo claimed that a 33-page document posted on the Treasury Department website “told employees essentially that America was a fundamentally white supremacist country,” though the document referred only to a writer who “asserts virtually all White people, regardless of how 'woke’ they are, contribute to racism.”.[9] Rufo has also claimed that a course curriculum in California called on students to honor the Aztec gods of human sacrifice and to commit “countergenocide” against white Christians, which the curriculum did not do.[23]
Those Raytheon slides are actually pretty good. I’m going to forward a few of them to my HR to see what they think. Thanks. PS what Raytheon is doing here is diversity training, which is good onto itself, but is actually part of what is called an affirmative defense. You’ll learn about the importance of having an affirmative defense if you ever build any sort of company or enterprise. This guy, Rufo, is a moron and if anyone who runs a company or has a say in a company agrees with his spin here they are going to get their company sued into oblivion.
It will be a comfort for the men, women and kids blasted to bits by various Raytheon missiles to know the people who built that Tomahawk had a "decolonised bookshelf".
Diversity is not a cultural issue. As a matter of fact for businesses of a certain size there are legal issues you probably have never had to consider related to things like discrimination and harassment. Try to understand, while it is good corporate policy to be inclusive because it is actually a positive to your bottom line to have that as part of your brand, in the end they just want to limit liability in sexual harassment and discrimination cases - which happen all of the time. So, let me tell you all this is where the rebranding of diversity as critical race theory comes to an end. These corporations are not going open themselves to major liability because a bunch of Karen’s and Kens never made it to middle management.
This is just more proof we're living in a simulation. Whoever or whatever is running this program has either gone off their rocker, or has decided to run an experiment where a miniscual number of clinically insane people manage to get the government and corporate overlords to be more spineless than they already were. No way does a species evolve and then go full retard on a dime. Can't happen