Report: City Of Seattle Unveils New Diversity Training For ‘Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness’

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July 7, 2020

The city of Seattle is reportedly looking to implement new diversity training for law enforcement officials to include programs identifying whiteness and the institutionalized differences between races.

The changes come after anarchists and other protesters seized a 6-block area of downtown Seattle, which they referred to as a Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). The mayor and law enforcement eventually regained control of the area after several acts of violence were reported.

Center on Wealth & Poverty Director Christopher Rufo, also a contributing editor for the City Journal, posted a series of tweets describing the new program and how officials will be taught to handle race issues.

“The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called ‘Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,'” he said in a tweet.

The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”

So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through it together in this thread. 👇

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

First on the training is identifying different terms and how they are used to express “internalized racial oppression” by superior and inferior groups.

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."

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

The program also teaches its participants on “undoing your own whiteness.”

What happens after the thought exercises? It's time to DO THE WORK.

The trainers ask white employees to "let go" of "comfort," "guaranteed physical safety," "control over the land," "social status," and "relationships with some other white people." pic.twitter.com/sRZf8gA6Go

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

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The program, according to Rufo, entirely blames “white people” for perpetuating a system of inequality.

The training also identifies more than just Anglo-Saxon, White American, or White European people as “white people.” This group also includes Jewish people, German, Armenian, and Arab people.

In case some people are wondering if they're "really white," they pass out a datasheet called "Assimilation into Whiteness."

Are you of Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian or Irish descent? You're definitely white. No getting out of this. pic.twitter.com/mqsCUB9Ijr

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

Rufo reports the only people who were invited to take the training course were these white people (identified above) and they will be held “accountable to black, indigenous, and people of color.”

How do you know when you've successfully "interrupted your whiteness"?

–When you "implicate yourself" in racism.
–When "other white people may be angry."
–When you have stopped your "white normative behavior." pic.twitter.com/7Pv5FvRxm1

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

While the program specifics were made available through the Freedom of Information Act requests, other questions about the trainers, budget costs, etc. were not disclosed.

As @ConceptualJames and others have shown, the new cultural revolution is being fought via corporate HR, city diversity training, and public school curriculums.

When you find something like this in your community, expose it, criticize it, mock it, and reject it. /End

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020

And, the bill for all this is likely going to be footed by taxpayers.