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Disney Employee Training Claims U.S. Was Founded on ‘Systemic Racism,’ Includes ‘White Privilege Checklist’

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Golding

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Disney Employee Training Claims U.S. Was Founded on ‘Systemic Racism,’ Includes ‘White Privilege Checklist’

The Walt Disney Corporation has launched a “diversity and inclusion program” which teaches employees that America was founded on “systemic racism” and asks employees to complete a “white privilege checklist,” according to a new report. According to whistleblower documents obtained by City...
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So I stumbled over this article this morning..
I was wondering what’s everyone thought on this from Disney.
What y’all think folks?

Lock thread if old please.
 
entremet

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No issues.

Any outrage about this about this seems like another right wight culture warrior talking point.
 
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Get ready for Fox News and millions of twitter chuds to go completely ape shit lol
 
YamchasRevenge

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Nothing wrong with the systematic racism claim because it's historical fact. The check list looks insane, though.
 
Cross-Section

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This source seems, uh...

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Like good for Disney if they're actually doing this but the guy "leaking" this certainly has an agenda
 
PeskyToaster

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how can you argue otherwise? they codified slavery and counted people as 3/5s. It infested e dry facet of the foundation.
 
Ramsay

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The idea is good, the execution is woeful and potentially counterproductive.

Simply put, whilst there are significant elements of truth here, asking people to complete "white privilege checklists" and to focus on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is very clearly not the way you want to educate people about systemic racism.

Berating a majority group who aren't personally racist for systemic racism can very easily be construed by them as a personal attack. It's the same reason why white working class people dismiss critiques over police brutality or systemic racism as the product of "cultural elites".
 
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Golding said:
www.yahoo.com

Disney Employee Training Claims U.S. Was Founded on ‘Systemic Racism,’ Includes ‘White Privilege Checklist’

The Walt Disney Corporation has launched a “diversity and inclusion program” which teaches employees that America was founded on “systemic racism” and asks employees to complete a “white privilege checklist,” according to a new report. According to whistleblower documents obtained by City...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

So I stumbled over this article this morning..
I was wondering what’s everyone thought on this from Disney.
What y’all think folks?

Lock thread if old please.
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The source of this is a guy who works for a rag with 30 different "critical race theory" articles. This reeks of some project vertias shit
 
brad-t

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Ramsay said:
The idea is good, the execution is woeful and potentially counterproductive.

Simply put, whilst there are elements of truth here, asking people to complete "white privilege checklists" and to focus on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is very clearly not the way you want to educate people about systemic racism.

Berating a majority group who aren't personally racist for systemic racism can very easily be construed by them as a personal attack.
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How do you determine that exactly?
 
808s & Villainy

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Ramsay said:
The idea is good, the execution is woeful and potentially counterproductive.

Simply put, whilst there are elements of truth here, asking people to complete "white privilege checklists" and to focus on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is very clearly not the way you want to educate people about systemic racism.

Berating a majority group who aren't personally racist for systemic racism can very easily be construed by them as a personal attack.
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How is completing a checklist berating? It's not like it's saying having white privilege makes you personally racist
 
Dekuman

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Seems reasonable. I wish more companies around the world would do this for the skeletons of their own countries.
 
PAFenix

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The country was founded on such so there are no lies.

Can't wait for right wingers to either deny, boycott Disney for being too woke (lol), or as a last resort, say that things like this shouldn't happen in the workplace. "It's schools and an educator's responsibility to go over history" (as if they're doing a good job already) and taking the fight of denying our racial history in schools instead.
 
Wag

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So when are they moving Disney World out of Florida?

(and why are they still trying to wipe Song of the South from existence?)
 
Jakenbakin

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Doesn't sound true, and if it is I'm as sceptical of it as I am with most corporate diversity training attempts which are typically more about barebones compliance to an idea than an actual attempt to intellectually engage with the ideas behind it. A checklist would almost make sense just because that's very corporate styled compliance.
 
Karateka

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As someone who has done a training like this for work all that happens is a bunch of old white people complain and make fun of the training through the whole thing and the management can't or won't do anything about it.
 
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The source of this story seems unreliable. If the story is picked by by a reliable news outlet, then we can look at it again.
 
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