A former employee of the City of Seattle is suing for damages for violation of his rights under the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act. DEI/CRT initiatives in the workplace will not survive the plain language of the Civil Rights Act.
Seattle city employee sues over anti-White discrimination, ‘racially hostile work environment’
If this actually happened
As part of his RSJI training, the lawsuit alleges, Diemert was required to attend a two-day workshop in 2019 called “Undoing Institutional Racism,” during which facilitators declared, “white people are like the devil,” “racism is in white people’s DNA,” and "white people are cannibals."
The city deserves to be sued. I’ve never been a part of any DEI training that said white people are the devil. As a matter of fact most of my DEI training focused on more than race… it focused on all protected classes.
There is plenty of this out there, and not just in the workplace. I expect the next lawsuits will be aimed at school districts and teachers, for violation of the Civil Rights act, and, since public schools are municipal government entities, violation of the 14th Amendment concerning minor children. And the greed of the trial bar will see it spread.
Keep fighting back. There are more than one generation of integrated people who have/had nothing to do with this so-called institutional racism, and have no interest in petty middle-school level squabbling with the bitter left-behinds who blame all their woes on the external.
People who blame “white people” for the world they live in are bigoted morons who are too stupid to realize that they’re bigoted morons.
Everywhere
As Purpl pointed out, not all such initiatives will fall under this line of attack.
Only ones that are blatantly ridiculous as this one appears to be, if true.
A fair counterpoint that the bigots in the minority will be getting more slithery in their tactics as a result of people fighting back.
The literature, written policies and program activities are full of references to whiteness, defining whiteness as a systemic racist thing, the need to counter whiteness, and calls to action against witness. The Civil Rights Act is the perfect disinfectant, and the trial bar is going to see the potential for tens of millions of dollars in legal fee low hanging fruit. School districts with these programs are made to order class action cases, as are large employers…
@PurpnGold is denying.
That’s because it all flows from a single source with a single purpose.
This is of the same lib mentality, that NY employees were fired for not being vaccinated and reinstated by the state supreme court. This too will be legally shot down in court and those negatively effected, reimbursed for their financial losses and mental stress.
Exactly, and no matter how they try to rationalize it, the taint of racial bigotry will never wash off it.
I suggest all read this link:
“Genetic data sets are used to see if biological races exist in humans and in our closest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee. Using the two most commonly used biological concepts of race, chimpanzees are indeed subdivided into races but humans are not”
I ASSUME this link is a valid one.
Many are…many also are not. I worked with DEI teams for a while…there is a load of shot…there’s also useful stuff.
It’s not some great big conspiracy, as much as some conservatives would like to believe there is.
How very CRT of you!
“Race is a social construct” is one of the core tenets of CRT.
I would love to know if anyone actually said that ludicrous stuff. Because it doesn’t sound super likely.
But…but…the science. So is the science wrong?
No the science is not wrong.
But those who espouse CRT or who say institutional racism is real agree with the science.
Race and racism are cultural, not genetic.
I’m not. I’m recognizing that there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed when conducting DEI training. If all allegations are true in the article… several lines were crossed.
Like I said, I’ve done DEI training for government, government contractor and woke Silicon Valley companies. I’ve never ever seen any training calling white people “evil” or “the devil”. I’ve never seen any training saying “white people are racist”.
I’ve seen training that asks ALL attendees to identify a privilege they may have… whether it be economic, company position, race, sex etc. But the training never singles out any specific “class” of people.
It sounds highly suspect. To me it sounds like that is the way he perceived the training, but not what was actually said.
He has a slam dunk case if some of those statements were actually made and on paper.
