'There are no exceptional white people': University of Wisconsin law students put through mandatory race re-education
First-year law students at the University of Wisconsin were reportedly forced to take a mandatory seminar that told them there are "no exceptional white people" and that "whites collude" to commit "genocidal attacks."
The students were lectured in the seminar by Joey Oteng, who is officially the Dean's Fellow of Inclusive Excellence at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Oteng also refers to himself as a "social justice educator/PhD student, lawyer, blogger" and "Educational Consultant" on his Instagram.
Students were given literature to prepare them for the lecture, which included the document "28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors."
Each type of racist attitude listed was followed by a "reality check" and an alleged consequence of that attitude. For example, being "color-blind," according to the material, actually means a person is "afraid to discuss racism."
"'Color-blindness' negates the cultural values, norms, expectations, and life experiences of people of color. Even if an individual white person could ignore a person’s color, society does not," the document read. "By saying we are not different, that you don’t see the color, you are also saying you don’t see your whiteness. This denies the people of colors’ [sic] experience of racism and your experience of privilege."
The literature even considered white people who consider other whites to be racist as a form of racist "denial," leaving no possibility that a white person cannot be benefitting from racism in some form.
"There are no 'exceptional white people.' You may have attended many anti-racism workshops; you may not be shouting racist epithets or actively discriminating against people of color, but you still experience privilege based on your white skin color. You benefit from this system of oppression and advantage no matter what your intentions are."
According to the Federalist, a source who attended the session said parts felt like a confessional rather than a seminar. The unnamed attendee said that students were asked to provide possible slurs for different racial groups, but "when it got to white people and the derogatory terms used for white people, [Oteng] was implying that it was OK to laugh at white slurs because white people don’t have any problems."
While the law school did not reply to a request for comment, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman said that the session was "held in partial fulfillment of ABA (American Bar Association) Standard 303’s requirement that law schools provide education to their students on 'bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism.'"
According to the National Association for Law Placement, the education is required to address "values and responsibilities of the legal profession" which includes "cross-cultural competence" and the "obligation" of lawyers to promote a justice system that "provides equal access and eliminates bias."
In addition to other examples of racism that included asking to be told if something is racist, or when a person tries "not to notice" another's race, even attempting to understand the point of view of native Americans is considered racist in the literature.
The document warned of the use of native culture to "service white people searching for life’s meaning."
"Rather than escape one’s white racism by finding a spiritual path, whites instead collude in one more way with the genocidal attacks on native cultures," the anti-racism initiative claimed.
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'If we fall for this, we are FOOLS': Glenn Loury warns Dems are 'buying black votes by waving a bloody shirt of racism'
On "The Rubin Report," Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University, joined BlazeTV host Dave Rubin to talk about why it's controversial for a black man to be against diversity and inclusion training, affirmative action, and reparations.
Glenn also shared his thoughts on the narrative of systemic racism and racial disparities, why it's wrong, and how the Democratic Party pushes lies to get the support of black voters.
In this clip, Glenn shares his thoughts on how Democrats have fanned the flames of the racism bogeyman in a cynical attempt to get more of the black vote.
"They're buying black votes by waving a bloody shirt of racism, that's what they're doing," Glenn said of the Democratic Party. "If we fall for this, we are fools. We're being led around with a ring through our noses. They show nothing but contempt for black people."
Glenn argued that if black people in this country want to start eliminating disparities, they need to stop using the issue of slavery to play the victim as that mentality only encourages society to lower the bar for black America.
"The racial conflict coming out of [the issue of] slavery threaten the existence of the republic," Glenn said. "Three hundred thousand people in a country of 3 million were slaughtered on the battlefields of the civil war. The consequence of which was the emancipation of the African slaves. Here we are now, 150 years later and the descendants of those slaves are citizens of the freest, richest and most powerful republic in the history of the world."
Glenn also explained why he believes former President Barack Obama missed many opportunities to engage the country in an honest conversation about race, and called out former first lady Michelle Obama for saying that she fears for the safety of her daughters.
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Report: Nation’s largest defense contractor sent execs on a retreat to atone for their ‘white male privilege'
Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest and most prominent defense contractor, reportedly had white male executives undergo a diversity training program last year intended to help them atone for their "white male privilege," according to filmmaker and journalist Christopher Rufo.
During the three-day program, the group of 13 senior Lockheed executives participated in a series of exercises aimed at deconstructing their "privilege" by awakening them to the harmful impact they have on women and minority individuals by virtue of their ethnicity and gender.
The program, conducted by a diversity-consulting firm known as White Men As Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP), began with a "free association" exercise during which the participants were encouraged to list connotations often associated with white men.
During that exercise, the executives listed several negative terms such as "old," "racist," "privileged," "anti-women," "angry," "Aryan Nation," "KKK," "founding fathers," "guns," "guilty," "conservative," and "good old boys network" in addition to a handful of positive terms like "fathers," "educated" and "hard working," documents obtained by Rufo show.
According to the participants, these overwhelmingly negative perceptions about white men lead to assumptions that they "are the problem," "are arrogant," "can't lead diversity," and "don't want to give away ... or lose power."
In his report, Rufo noted that a set of related resources used by WMFDP shows the firm espouses a troubling view of privilege. The firm's training programs reportedly assess that the "roots of white male culture" consists of traits — such as "rugged individualism," "a can-do attitude," "hard work," "operating from principles," and "striving toward success" — which may seem positive but are actually "devastating" to women and minorities.
In subsequent sessions of the Lockheed training, participants were encouraged to acknowledge their privilege in a series of statements, which included "My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races"; "I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race"; "My earning potential is 15%-33% higher than a woman's"; and "My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender."
Finally, participants were asked to read a series of "I'm Tired" statements meant to convey their "devastating" impact on others. The statements included "I'm tired of you making more money than me"; "I'm tired of people disparaging our campaigns (like Black Lives Matter)"; "I am tired of people who assume I'm taking a white person's job, and that I should go back to Mexico"; and "I'm tired of seeing you get offered opportunities that I don't get offered."
Rufo noted that WMFDP has conducted other controversial diversity training programs in the past, such as with Sandia National Laboratories, a company that designs America's nuclear weapons.
During former President Donald Trump's term, he issued an executive order banning racial stereotyping, scapegoating, and discrimination in federal diversity programs. But that order was rescinded on President Joe Biden's first day in office.
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