What's Wrong with Diversity Training?
In her recent column for Spiked, Joanna Williams details the pitfalls of diversity training. The piece underscores the lack of effect of unconscious bias training and explains that a lucrative industry has grown out of these training sessions.
“Ultimately, unconscious-bias training is divisive; it pushes us to see each other as members of racial groups and, in a bid to make all interactions conscious, it risks preventing the spontaneity and informality that leads to genuine friendship.”
Read the full article here.
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Critical Race Theory in the News
Erec Smith, an associate professor at York College of Pennsylvania, penned a compelling editorial for Newsweek regarding how critical race theory scholars are attempting to redefine “harm.” Smith unpacks how the linguistic traps of critical race theory “infantilizes people of color.”
“Where once the potential for harm existed in contact sports, accidents, physical altercations, traumas and so on, one might now find it while reading a question on an exam, listening to a recorded debate in a classroom or encountering an opinion on social media.”
Read the full article here.
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A recent study conducted by Eric Kauffman from the Manhattan Institute brings light to the negative effects of critical race theory on the self-perception of black Americans. The report contains a foreward from FAIR Board of Advisors member Coleman Hughes. A key finding from the study found that “Reading a passage from critical race theory author Ta-Nehisi Coates results in a significant 15-point drop in black respondents’ belief that they have control over their lives.”
Read the full report here.
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In a recent piece for Reason, Rikki Schlott brings attention to the First Ammendment violations a student at the University of Oklahoma was subjected to while partaking in a mandated diversity training session. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has taken action on behalf of the student.
“While many schools require diversity training, OU's rendition clearly violates First Amendment rights. The problem is that each module restarted until participants selected the 'right' answer, forcing an expression of agreement with university-approved viewpoints in order to complete the mandatory training.”
Read the full article here.
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FAIR Board of Advisors member Ian Rowe welcomed fellow board member Thomas Chatterton Williams on his podcast “Are You Kidding Me” with Naomi S. Riley. Williams discusses the necessity for Americans to “unlearn race” and to restore the essence of one’s identity through character. Williams also discusses how FAIR is helping parents stand up to neo-racism in schools.
“And what we’re doing, oftentimes, by telling these kids that they carry the weight of all of these histories of oppression that have preceded them, I figure basically guaranteeing that we continue to reproduce the racism that actually creates the racial differences that we think we perceive.”
Listen to the podcast here.
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In a recent piece from her Substack newsletter, FAIR Board of Advisors member Bari Weiss breaks down the complexities of the free speech debacle in the digital realm. She calls attention to the arguments for and against government intervention in big tech from notable figures on the Hill as well as Justice Clarence Thomas.
“Big Tech companies insist that they are just removing “disinformation” and “hate speech” from their platforms, but as we’ve seen, these are terms with ever-evolving definitions.”
Read the full article here.
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Having a mind freeze?
Yellow Stickies
From The
Refrigerator
Door of My Mind
Part 1: The Harris-Biden Notes
By: Pem
Schaeffer
pemster4062@yahoo.com
Author's Social Disclosure: I
suffer from systemic Pem-ness, which derives from the congenital Schaeffer-ness
with which I was born. I also exhibit cis-guyness, which often presents as
engineer-ness. Lastly, I aspire always to wit-ness, or the embodiment of
wit.
Sometimes random thoughts come at you like a thief in the night,
or reflected light from a Disco Ball. Herewith those that have found their
way into my “view-scape” recently, relating to “Slurs” Biden
and “Chuckles” Harris.
● Shame shame on “Dr. Jill” Biden for allowing her husband
to embarrass himself in public; for allowing her entire family to embarrass
themselves privately and publicly; for ensuring that the Biden Legacy truly
recorded is a joke; and for supporting him in turning our country over to the
Democrite* Bolsheviks. Is she this desirous of shared power, or is she as
clueless as Joe, and just as oblivious to his embarrassing presence and
circumstances?
● You know what cellophane is, right? Very transparent,
just like Slurs (Biden) and Chuckles (Harris) promised their administration
would be. Maybe you know of the song “Mr. Cellophane” from the
musical Chicago. It has the line “walk right by me, look right
thorough me, nobody knows I'm there.” Seems appropriate
here. Neither visits the border operation, because they can't afford to be
seen in a photo with that mess, and telling media they can't follow along would
be a dead giveaway. They've got themselves between a rock and a hard place
for sure. Even the Head of DHS wouldn't allow media to follow him on his
visit, and he's not even elected. What does that tell you about the border
“challenge?”
● Rumors are that Joe Biden thinks The Peloton is the HQ of
the Defense Department, where that guy that heads up the thing works
● Biden has a card pinned inside his suit jacket that
says “Have you seen them? How many were there? Which way did
they go? How long ago? I MUST KNOW! I am their President!!” His
handlers tell him to get it out whenever he feels confused or lost, but
sometimes he can't find it.
● At what point should the White House Physician come out and
describe the health of the President? But then, maybe he hasn't “had
a chance” to examine POTUS yet.
● It's time that Biden take the The Montreal Cognitive
Assessment that Trump aced. We should all care more about how Biden does
on this test than about Trump's tax returns.
● Is it true Biden thinks Jim Crow is a Whiskey distilled in
the woods of rural Delaware? And that Jim Crow 2.0 is their new release “Small
Batch” version?
● Better for him Jim Crow 2.0 would be a small batch, artisan
crafted version of Serutan, a revival “legacy” brand, now refined
in a re-purposed DuPont Laboratory in Delaware. Remember, Nedib spelled
backwards is “Biden.” Sgulp spelled backwards is Plugs.
● The Animatronics Abe Lincoln at Disneyland 40 years ago
was more convincing than “live” Joe Biden at his first anniversary
Covid pandemic speech. The real Joe was the one at the Hardware store,
where he didn't know which way to turn. Do we really think Joe could
deliver a “live” 30 minute speech?
● Biden is the equivalent of a Hood Ornament that believes
it drives the car.
● VP Harris, on St Patrick's day, March 17th, referred to “standing
with our Asian Brothers and Sisters” following the shootings in the Atlanta
area. Isn't this gender stereotyping? How dare she assume the “lived
gender” of those affected without seeing their Preferred Pronoun ID
Cards? And what about her racial profiling? Where does she get off making
such assumptions without specific ID information?
● I remember a movie named Brokeback Mountain,
though I didn't see it. Biden and his puppet masters are producing a
sequel: “Brokenback Country.” It documents the Chinese gift of a
pandemic, embellished with propaganda, wokeism, spendoramas, re-engineered
genders, court packing, firearm confiscation, collectivism, and other wildly
effective forms of tyranny against the individual, the Constitution, and our
founding principles. All with help from the Department of Big Tech, the
newest cabinet level powerhouse, led by 5 Co-Secretaries. Might as well
pack the Cabinet too. Hey, why not a Co-President and a Co-Vice
President? (Oops, I just forgot we have several of each.)
● Have you noticed that when Joe Biden makes an appearance on
camera for some sort of “formal statement,” he is invariably
looking to his left? Shouldn't a “moderate” be looking neither left
nor right, but in our eyes? I wonder what size monitor they have located
just outside the camera view, and whether the coaching they give him in
posture, gestures, eyes and mouth articulation and such are cued to him on
screen, or by a live body language coach standing next to the large screen
display.
● Did you know that $1 Billion is about $3 for every citizen
of the United States. Which means that $1 Trillion is about $3,000 for
every man, woman, and child (or “Q”) who is a citizen of this land. So
when Congress passes and Biden signs a $2 Trillion bill, you should be looking
to get $6,000 benefit per person in your household. Looks like you should
already be approaching $12,000 per person in his less than 100 days. Let
the good times roll!
Well, that clears the refrigerator door, as it were, for
now. I have no doubt it will fill back up “right quick,” as they
say somewhere or other.
* “Democrite” is a combining form of Dem-ocrat and
hyp-ocrite. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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