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.
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.
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…
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.
“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’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.