However, the pamphlet does not present these claims as springboards for discussion, but as facts to be learned in the mandatory training. The pamphlet entitled “Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors that Indicate a Detour or Wrong Turn into White Guilt, Denial or Defensiveness,” lists 28 potential hazards for well-meaning white people on their redemptive journey.
If they’re threatening “continuing efforts,” and they’re asserting that the DEI practices are “cancerous,” you would think the school would take care to produce high quality, genuinely educational training sessions that would impress the public at large and win support in the larger political debate. Perhaps the cocoon is so isolating that the handout seemed truly wholesome and not cancerous at all. As I said in my first blog post about it, “I thought the handout was generally well done.” But you have to think about how it looks to other people. And yet, if your view really is that those other people are racist, then you won’t want to appease them.
Posted by Ann Al