I admit that the term racism is easy to use but hard to define. Yet I try. Racism is the belief that different racial demographics may well be different, from City Journal via Right Scoop:
Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy” and “interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.” Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.
At the beginning of the session, the trainers explain that white people have internalized a sense of racial superiority, which has made them unable to access their “humanity” and caused “harm and violence” to people of color. The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles. In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.
Unpacking this POS. The dipsticks the City Seattle hired for this indoctrination seems not to have read their own memos.
On racism. the City of Seattle dips seem to hold that only whites need anti-racism training, and any difference between white population, and people of color must be a white problem.
On diversity, the theory holds that the more variation in a population the better. Therefore more individualism would mean more diversity. Yet the dips hold that whites have a problem, which needs to cured, of being too individualist.
Further, this same dips assert that objectivity is a property of whites which must be totally abandoned. So what objective evidence can this dips present that objectivity must be totally abandoned? By definition, it is none. After all, objectivity is an anecdote to indoctrination, and indoctrination and not education is the goal.
