Sunday, November 01, 2020

There Is No Reason For This.

Trump issued an Executive Order banning diversity training making up really weird reasons to ban them.
Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order
NPR
By Melissa Block
October 30, 2020


Three civil rights groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday challenging the Trump administration's recent crackdown on diversity training.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Urban League and National Fair Housing Alliance call President Trump's Sept. 22 executive order "chillingly punitive" censorship that violates guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process.

Trump's executive order prohibits certain diversity training that the administration says amounts to "divisive, anti-American propaganda."
[…]
The order applies broadly to federal agencies and the military as well as government contractors and recipients of federal grants, including universities and nonprofits.
I do diversity training. I am going to be doing a Zoom classroom discussion… I suppose that it could fall under Trump’s ban.

Not only did he ban the training but he also set up a hotline to report the training.

Trump explanation is even scarier.
Asked to explain the reasoning behind the order at the Sept. 29 presidential debate, Trump said, "They were teaching people that our country is a horrible place. It's a racist place. And they were teaching people to hate our country. And I'm not going to allow that to happen."

Why did he do this?

I can only think of one reason… he does want people to realize that he is a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.

What diversity teaches…
  • What discrimination is,
  • What the results of discrimination are,
  • How to recognize it,
  • How to correct that behavior.
“And they were teaching people to hate our country.” that is not what diversity training does… it teaches what behavior is that are racist, a xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.
The Trump administration's order, Kim believes, is founded on a gross misunderstanding of diversity training: the mistaken belief that it's all about blaming and vilifying white people. (The word "scapegoating" appears seven times in the executive order.)

That misconception is not just wrong, Kim [co-founder and CEO of the company Awaken, based in Oakland, Calif.] says, but it's also dangerous. "Somehow we've gotten to a place where we believe fighting against racism is anti-patriotic," she says. "That's where we are as a society. And that's a really scary place to be."
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