android wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:37 pm
Fear not DA, I said nothing about their aims, so I did not misrepresent them.
It may well be that the purpose of the King County sessions was similar to whatever Channel 4 did. But it is one thing for a TV show to run something like that and another for an employer to do it to their employees.
Racial segregation of employees is a terrible idea however you dress it up.
You stated King County Library System recently held a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion staff training session and this is rebutted by Kings County library and there is no evidence of this
If you watched the Ch4 TV show it was run and led by some US academics who are experts in this field and who run these session across different areas of the US so its very possible that breaking out into groups based on ethnicity is just part of this methodology to get people thinking and talking about their unconscious bias in a freer and more productive way. To label this as racial segregation is no different than likening Trumps regime and actions to fascism
It is also telling for me that I could only see two media outlets pick up and run with this story and both were right wing outlets with a poor record with regards to factual reporting. The stories linked to a commentator on Twitter who looking at his posts and replies seemed to be nothing more than a race agitator playing to fears around BLM/Antifa and critical race theory. Again this seems to be the right wing version of what you a quick to criticise the left with on here
It also makes me wonder what kind of news and media do you pay attention to such that you pick up such a small individual story and use it as a representation of whats happening in 21st century America.
The fact that someone has had to spot this in the background of a TV news section to make a big deal out of it when there has been no issues from the employees of Kings County library over an business initiative thats been running since 2019 tells me this is a non issue which some right wing race baiters have used to rile up their followers and create further division and social unrest.
The initiative/sessions were not compulsory and I have had a lot of experience of this kind of thing at the large company I work at where the company looks to set up groups and sessions on subjects like LGBQT, diversity & inclusion and mental health which are all optional (opposed to the actual training sessions on things like Finance Reg and Ethical Codes of Practice which is compulsory. (ive actually got a questionnaire sitting in my inbox which the company has asked me to complete to help them understand how their workforce feel about diversity within the company but this is completely discretionary)
I guess in summary I find it very odd that you have picked up such an obscure story from the far right of American politics which is very short on facts and background info to use as an example to scoff at another posters Hitler comparison but hey ho thats the world we live in nowadays