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Trump announces that the federal government will no longer sell anti-racist trainers the rope with which to hang ourselves

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Interesting:

Critical Race Theory, translated into racist “anti-racism” training, is a leftist ideology that has been shown to foster more racial hatred and tension. The groups behind it are quite explicit about wanting to utterly change our system, and about their support for far left philosophies and programs. They hide themselves in the righteous cloak of being against racism, but they are among the most racist elements of society and what they preach is for the most part a highly destructive racism. I have written about the phenomenon before, in greater detail

So no, the government shouldn’t be supporting and paying for these training sessions. It is a scandal that, until now, they have been doing so.

Here’s an excerpt from the official White House announcement:

It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date “training” government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda.

For example, according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that “virtually all White people contribute to racism” or where they are required to say that they “benefit from racism.” According to press reports, in some cases these training have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.

These types of “trainings” not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce. We can be proud that as an employer, the Federal government has employees of all races, ethnicities, and religions. We can be proud that Americans from all over the country seek to join our workforce and dedicate themselves to public service. We can be proud of our continued efforts to welcome all individuals who seek to serve their fellow Americans as Federal employees. However, we cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.

The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions. Accordingly, to that end, the Office of Management and Budget will shortly issue more detailed guidance on implementing the President’s directive.

I wonder how successful the MSM and the Democrats will be in their Orwellian campaign to brand this move of Trump’s as racist.

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Trump announces that the federal government will no longer sell anti-racist trainers the rope with which to hang ourselves — 41 Comments

  1. This excellent document has clearly been inspired by the superb reporting of Chris Rufo (City Journal), who was interviewed several days ago by the indispensable Tucker Carlson, and it is being greeted, predictably, with howls of outrage by assorted race-baiting leftists, white as well as black, who consider the politics of racial division (based on meretricious pseudo-scholarship) to be both personally lucrative and ideologically useful in gaining political power.

  2. We would never tolerate federal money being spent on programs which denigrate black Americans because of their race, nor should we. These “white privilege” programs do exactly that to white Americans, blaming them for evils in which they may never have participated.

  3. Coming up

    1. Forum shopping by lawfare artists

    2. Nationwide injunction by Democratic Party operative in robes.

  4. Just as the DDTO’s are coming fast & furious now (the Democrat’s Daily Trump Outrages), I suspect that the Trump campaign has quite a few of these lined up on the taxiway as well, leading up to the election. Little vignettes that remind the ordinary voting people that Trump is a President that ‘does’, comfortable in issuing clear and unambiguous directions for change that impact lives positively.

    Most Americans that are employed have been made to sit through one of these racism/sexism seminar things. I can tell you from personal experience, they are a bit excruciating, to people of all backgrounds. Sitting through training courses is bad enough, all modern industrial training has a component of psychological behavior modification to it that is pretty obvious. But this tripe is 100% behavior modification, using all of the wrong mechanisms (leveraging guilt, shame, unfairness, grievances etc) and none of the positive ones. If you want positive change, it has to be a positive mechanism. This stuff is just toxic to everything it touches.

  5. This will hurt Trump very badly with voters who already think he’s a racist and never had any intention of voting for him.

  6. I’d like to see him go one step further and end all, and I mean all, federal funding to any university that teaches this stuff. No money for the humanities, science, engineering, medicine, and especially no money for student loans. You can teach critical race theory and all the other forms of hatred of white people, men, and whatever else you despise all you want, but you’ll have to do it on your own and fund student loans and all faculty research out of your endowment. You’re welcome.

  7. My exposure to Critical Race Theory was from an Ed School dissertation applying Critical Race Theory to the problems facing black female middle school administrators. The dissertation’s author was a black female middle school principal who, at the time of the dissertation’s publication, was not going to have her initial four-year contract renewed.

    As an example of the school district’s reasons for not keeping her on, consider that three months into her first 3 months as principal, nearly half the teaching staff signed a grievance against her. If one believes that this was an example of a black administrator being subjected to racism, bear in mind that the previous principal, highly regarded and promoted to a central office post, was several shades darker than the principal with the grievance petition. In addition, many black teachers signed the grievance petition. If one believes the grievance was an example of a new principal making changes at a new school she didn’t know, bear in mind that she had been an assistant principal for years at that school. She was quite familiar with the school.

    The author used Critical Race Theory to hide, in effect, her incompetence as an administrator.

    The author’s specialty as a college teacher has been in training prospective school administrators. A failed administrator is doing this. “If you can’t, teach”….

  8. Gringo:

    Re: “If you can’t, teach”

    On reflection I think that GBS would have done all teenagers a favor by putting as preface to Maxims for Revolutionaries in the back of Man and Superman a suggestion that one does not try out the entirety of said maxims on one’s parents at the dinner table. Doubly so if they both happen to be teachers.

  9. Trump’s action here is of course the right one.

    But there’s a wider issue. All through the Managerialist West there really is only one game in town for the making of really easy big money. (I leave out here the Elon Musks and the normal people who do it the hard way)

    Which game is the illicit privatization of public resources and funds. Through just about every branch of every part of the civil service they are running rackets hiring in outside consultants in exchange for kickbacks or sinecures post-retirement from their slothful public service sinecures.

    It’s everywhere. It rewards people who (whatever their purported politics) are enemies of those not plugged into the loop. And it corrupts the entire administrative process since obviously the prime directive of high level civil servants becomes the further creation of structures and processes which permit yet more of this daylight robbery.

  10. But there’s a wider issue. All through the Managerialist West there really is only one game in town for the making of really easy big money. Which game is the illicit privatization of public resources and funds. Through just about every branch of every part of the civil service they are running rackets hiring in outside consultants in exchange for kickbacks or sinecures post-retirement from their slothful public service sinecures.

    You’ve named two phenomena here. When you’ve decided to which you’re referring, you might try enumerating the people making money off them in the United States.

  11. @Art Deco:

    Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot.

    Festering in the scalp of said idiot are numerous Nits for you to go pick.

    Don’t let me keep you.

  13. Gringo, the “If you can’t, teach”…. phrase always pissed me off. My Wife was a teacher for 30 years. She was good at it. Of course she has been retired for 16 yrs.
    Have you ever tried to teach a classroom of say 45 Junior High kids? If not then be quiet. ( I was going to say something different but didn’t want to be banned.)

  14. LYNN HARGROVE
    Gringo, the “If you can’t, teach”…. phrase always pissed me off. My Wife was a teacher for 30 years. She was good at it. Of course she has been retired for 16 yrs.
    Have you ever tried to teach a classroom of say 45 Junior High kids? If not then be quiet.

    As a former teacher, I have tried to teach a classroom of 30 Junior High kids. Nor was I very successful at it. In general the “If you can’t, teach” adage is not appropriate, but in the case of a failed school administrator training prospective administrators, it is VERY appropriate.

    A guy from my hometown came from a family that ran the local garage. He became an Auto Mechanics teacher at a technical high school. As he probably could have taken apart and reassembled an auto engine blindfolded before he was out of high school, he was very much a case of a teacher who could do what he taught.

  15. Art Deco,

    Forgive my obtuseness but is not the “hiring in [of] outside consultants in exchange for kickbacks or sinecures post-retirement” the means by which the “illicit privatization of public resources and funds” is achieved?

    How does that consist of “two phenomena”?

    Please elucidate them for the less insightful among us.

  16. Paul in Boston,

    Once reelected, I can’t imagine that Trump doesn’t have plans along those lines.

    They tried to “kill the king” and failed, soon it will be his turn.

  17. “These ‘white privilege’ programs do exactly that to white Americans, blaming them for evils in which they may never have participated.”

    These programs have now infected medical schools: three faculty members at Yale School of Medicine recently published an article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine stating that applicants to medical schools should now be evaluated for “racist beliefs.” From the YSM website: “Many of [the three authors’] ideas build on existing practices to evaluate candidates for ‘hard-to quantify characteristics and attitudes,’ such as commitment, empathy, and integrity. For example, essays, resumes, letters of recommendation, and interviews could be used to evaluate whether applicants ‘hold racist beliefs or invalid and fixed views on biological differences between races.’ More specifically, the authors suggest an essay could ask for a reflection on one’s own race or ethnic identity or for the applicant’s thoughts on scholarly writing on race and medicine.”

    https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/26398/

  18. So now Colored People’s Time is a thing. Who knew? From what I can see. CRT validates a number of slurs, mostly by insisting they’re not negative. Or, by implying since the opposites are held by white folks, they can’t be slurs.

  19. The great thing about Trump is they will accuse him of racism no matter what he does. Saying this move is racist changes no one’s mind.

  20. “For example, essays, resumes, letters of recommendation, and interviews could be used to evaluate whether applicants ‘hold racist beliefs or invalid and fixed views on biological differences between races.’” PA Cat [my emphasis]

    Ah, “invalid views”… does anyone doubt that to be just a step away from categorical* denial of health care? The ‘rationale’ being that holders of “invalid views” are obviously ‘defective’ i.e. subhuman…

    *1. Being without exception or qualification; absolute: a categorical refusal

  21. These programs have now infected medical schools: three faculty members at Yale School of Medicine recently published an article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine stating that applicants to medical schools should now be evaluated for “racist beliefs.”

    Thank God I retired from teaching medical students when I did. I was kind of a curmudgeon but the students seemed to like my emphasis on basic skills and knowledge. I did meet the “Diversity Dean” before I left. She was new in the job and had not yet found the levers of power.

    Admissions and instruction were already for too subjective.

  22. So who within the federal bureaucracy and which agencies decided that fed employees should be subjected to the Stalinist / Orwellian propaganda of Critical Race Theory (aka ; White Folks Must Die).
    Why aren’t they being fired?
    Just more evidence how the far left / Marxist agenda has penetrated our federal agencies.
    Talk about the deep state.

    Just more evidence that the majority of fed agencies should be entirely abolished; they are merely jobs-for-life , at the taxpayer’s expense , for Marxists.

    Of course, if anyone comes out and says that our Fed agencies are crawling with Marxists, rest assured you will be labeled a “McCarthyite,” embarking on a communist witch hunt for non-existent communists.
    But today, Marxists / communists are not referred to as such; they have given themselves new titles, democratic socialists. This is akin to Nazis calling themselves national socialists (oops, !! they did. )

    “There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
    George Orwell

  23. Neo
    I wonder how successful the MSM and the Democrats will be in their Orwellian campaign to brand this move of Trump’s as racist.
    In addiction to “racist,” they are branding it as “McCarthyism 101.”While you were focused on The Atlantic, Trump dealt a devastating blow to Critical Race Theorists.

    But Trump’s move is viewed as a mortal threat by the CRT movement. One of the leading academics on CRT, UCLA and Columbia law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, certainly is worried. Crenshaw, my former law school classmate who invented the term and ideology of intersectionality, tweeted in desperation that she wondered if CRT’s allies would come to their assistance:

    So woke up to the news that CRT is banned as the greatest threat to Western Civilization. This is McCarthyism 101. I’ve often wondered what our allies would do when they came for us. Now we’ll see.

    Cutting off funding is the same as being jailed. Oh, yeah.

  24. It’s impossible to espouse Critical Racism Theory and speak English. This English usage is the epitome of cultural appropriation.

  25. There is no better argument for white supremacy as the black focus on preferences and segregation. It amazes me that they cannot see this. I assume they are all for the loot and less concerned about theory.

  26. Seems they have the Race (Racism) Theory down pat, but the Critical (Criticism) part, not so much.

    David Brin’s concept of CITOKATE cannot be repeated too often: Criticism Is The Only Known Antidote To Error.

  29. Eva – I heard about this twice from different family members, but no one would send me the link.
    Brilliant.

    MAGA YMCA Dance Party
    Young man, Walk away from the hate,
    we’re all human, and we don’t segregate,
    just like women help make America great,
    we are all in this together,
    our colors are red white and blue,
    and they stand for everyone of you,
    and together here’s what we’re gonna do,
    we’re make America great, woo-hoo,
    everybody sing m-a-g-a, m-a-g-a,
    let them hear our voice all you girls and boys,
    stand up and make some noise,
    m-a-g-a, m-a-g-a,
    the American crowd, patriotic and proud..

  30. Gringo: best comment at LI.
    “I don’t know what the fuss is about. I haven’t used a CRT in years.”

  31. AesopFan
    Gringo: best comment at LI.
    “I don’t know what the fuss is about. I haven’t used a CRT in years.”

    Following the Alinsky precept of mocking your opponents.

  33. Thanks Barry for the LINK

    Bruce Bawer adds something at the bottom of his AmGreatness piece that others have complained about: what about Woke schools? Propaganda loved by the NEA?

    Bawer says lat Sunday night, Trump’s DoEd is acting against the Hate America First “1619 project” of NYTimes favorite Marxist liars:

    This Labor Day weekend, Trump made a double bogey. Not content to take on these “training sessions” in the federal government, Trump followed up the Friday memo from the OMB with a Sunday tweet in which he broke some exceedingly welcome news. The Department of Education, he announced, would henceforth be under orders to defund any California schools found to be making use of the reprehensible “1619 Project.”

  34. Michael Anton’s piece in The American Mind is a big conversation starter this holiday. It draws on his new book, and Steve Hayward does a podcast with him, up at Powerline (and….R something…I don’t go there enough).

    Do Democrats threaten a coup on Trump’s re-election?

    At Zerohedge, Anton gets endorsement and critique, raising two worthy points.

    First, can it be a coup if it isn’t a surprise? How can there be all this talk if they plot one?

    Two, a coup requires force of arms to succeed. Democrats don’t have this.

    But, what about the June threat of a coup by the Generals? Barr used a DoD workaround to defend against White House assault!

    Doesn’t that support the seriousness of the treason threat of the Generals?

    It’s true that armed force is huge. But what if the “colour revolutions” of the past decade or not long before?

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-09-06/coup-20-we-can-strike-any-direction

    Assessing these claims and counter-claims strikes me as important and worthy in finding a path beyond November.

  35. This kind of crap has apparently been going on within the Federal government for a long long time (and the “consultants” involved have, no doubt, been raking in the dough).

    Way back around 25 or so years ago I had to attend a “mandatory” four day junior league propaganda and “struggle session” at the Federal research organization I worked for (the only time our supposedly critical and essential organization stopped its work for any such “mandatory” class, even for a couple of hours, much less four days), led by some junior grade, burn ’em at the stake female feminist consultant/Inquisitor, and the theme was how oppressed and harassed females were in the Federal workplace.

    And, boy, was it obvious how much she hated men.

    I still remember the dopey movie she showed us, about how a clueless male office worker met a female in his office who he liked at the water cooler, and how–in his socially awkward and nerdy way–he very gently and tentatively tried to ask her to have lunch with him, and she just brushed him off.

    A couple of days later he was shown passing by the threshold of her cubicle, and in a low key and very respectful way asking again, and he was again turned down.

    And that was it, he walked away disappointed.

    In this “training” film, this was the extent of this guy’s interaction with the female–no real pressure, no other meetings between the two of them, no phone calls, no presents, no notes, no stalking–nothing.

    Yet this, said our inquisitor, was an obvious and flagrant example of cruel and crude sexual harassment by the male.

    As I recall, another part of this “training” was the trainer tying to get us to volunteer our ideas, or to respond to certain questions designed to reveal our supposed “prejudicial ideas and behavior.”

    Those of us who were forced to attend noted that the people in major leadership positions were somehow exempt from attending these four days of “mandatory” training “everybody” was supposed to attend, with some only attending for a token couple of hours one day of the four so that they could claim to have “attended”–too busy doing important work, don’t ya know.

  36. Snow on Pine:

    Good point. I think you are correct that the basic template was set with the sexual harassment trainings, which predated the others.

  37. The sexual harassment training was not only bogus but ineffective.
    I remember reading reports not too long ago about the most common reactions of the men subjected to these “struggle sessions.”
    (1) it made them LESS likely to interact with, mentor, and hire women, for fear of being charged with harassment for some normal behavior like that cited by Snow;
    (2) it made them actively hate women where they didn’t before.

    In very few cases did it result in “woke” men eschewing their hitherto toxic masculinity. I have no idea where the pajama soy boys are coming from – indoctrinated in the cradle, I suppose.

    Query: if men are such a toxic gender, why are any women transitioning to Male?

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