Last year, Sandia National Laboratories—which designs America’s nuclear weapons—sent its white male executives to the La Posada luxury resort to undergo a mandatory training called “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations.”
In the opening thought-work session, the trainers demand that the men make a list of associations about white male culture. The trainers write “white supremacists,” “KKK,” “Aryan Nation,” “MAGA hat,” “privileged,” and “mass killings.”
The trainers insist that white males must “work hard to understand” their “white privilege,” “male privilege,” and “heterosexual privilege.” They claim that white men benefit from positive stereotypes that “far outweigh the Tim McVeighs and Ted Kaczynskis of white maleness.”
Next, the white male employees must expose the “roots of white male culture,” which consists of “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” and “striving towards success”—which sound good, but are in fact “devastating” to women and POCs.
In fact, the trainers claim that “white male culture” leads to “lowered quality of life at work and home, reduced life expectancy, unproductive relationships, and high stress.” It also forces this “white male standard” on women and minorities.
In a subsequent session, the white males must publicly recite a series of “white privilege statements” and “male privilege statements.” They must accept their complicity in the white male system and their role in creating oppressions.
Finally, as the reeducation camp concludes, the white males must write letters “directed to white women, people of color, and other groups regarding the meaning of this Caucus experience.” They apologize for their “privilege” and pledge to become “better [allies].”
Who is leading the struggle session? A company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners.” This is no joke—their company is literally called White Men As Full Diversity Partners and they specialize in confronting those who “typically hold all the power”: namely, “white males.”
Paul Plante says
This is HORSE*****, and these people are ******* morons, plain and simple, end of story.
BUT, to be politically correct, we should all adopt a “CAN’T DO” attitude, which really would end up being a “WON’T DO” attitude, as in let some other fool do it, because I refuse to.
And we need to adopt a LOSER MENTALITY that focuses not on the future. but thousands of years in the past.
We all need to get away from “rugged individualism” and instead become a pack of mindless slugs.
Operating from principles and conscience has to go the way of the dinosaur and dodo to be replaced by operating from fear and sheer passion and mindless emotion and no principles whatsoever, lest we offend our fellow mankind with our principles which they find offensive
And if we all work hard enough at it, why, I bet we can turn the United States of America into another socialist ****hole like Venezuela to make people like AOC finally be able to feel good about themselves, because they have engineered the decline and fall of the United States of America, their sworn enemy, because it has white men in it who obey the law, raise their nuclear families, pay their taxes, go to work each day and contribute to a stable natio9n which is what galls people like AOC so.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of HORSE****, which this thread presents us with by the hogshead, and then some, what is this HORSE**** these ******* morons from a company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners,” which should be “Stupid, Ignorant, Uninformed, Cowardly And Craven White Men With Their Heads in Their Asses As Full Diversity Partners” are peddling with this “Studying the relationship between white male culture and the history of the British Isles can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today!”
What “white male culture?”
What the **** are these ignorant morons on about with this HORSE**** they are spewing about “white male culture,” which is something they made up out of spider webs and dust, because there is no such thing in real life as “white male culture!”
And what on earth does the history of the British Isles, which goes back to Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods, have to do with “white male culture” in the United States today?
Are these morons likening us to cavemen, given that the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, also known as the Old and Middle Stone Ages, were characterised by a hunter-gatherer economy and a reliance on stone tool technologies?
Is that the lesson being imparted to us here by these ******* morons of this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners,” given that in the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers using basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals?
Do these ******* morons actually believe that by studying their paleolithic ancestors who lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers using basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals, those of us that harken back to the British Isles, anyway, in terms of ancestry, which certainly is not all white males in the United States today, that that will in some undefined way help American white men of today see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today?
What the **** are they talking about?
How many white males today, especially those that self-identify as liberal socialists or progressives, can conceive of having to live in a cave or simple hut or tepee, living as a hunter/gatherer using basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals?
How many white males in America today, especially those that self-identify as liberal socialists or progressives, could actually survive living in a cave or simple hut or tepee, as a hunter/gatherer using basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals?
Not too very many is my thought.
David Gay says
This is racist. The government should not single out any individual by race. It is the height of hypocrisy! Should we single out blacks for some special training or Hispanics? The Democrats have taken this country in the wrong direction where they have been given the privilege to govern. They have proven that they are incompetent regardless of their race!
tokenny says
Hello, Republicans are in charge in case you forgot. Why you blaming the democrats?
Paul Plante says
Republicans are in charge?
Of what?
Stuart Bell says
Some training on how to assimilate properly would be nice, for they have, both, failed miserably at assimilation.
Paul Plante says
And staying with this most fascinating concept put forth by these experts at this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners” that “Studying the relationship between white male culture and the history of the British Isles can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today,” one is forced to have to wonder if they are aware of the fact that several species of humans have intermittently occupied Britain for almost a million years.
So which species of human are we supposed to be studying today that can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today?
And my goodness, people, what if we are not all related back to the same species of human?
What then?
What impact does that have on white male culture here in the United States today?
Consider that the earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints probably made by Homo antecessor.
The oldest human fossils, around 500,000 years old, are of Homo heidelbergensis at Boxgrove in Sussex.
Will studying how they survived help can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today?
Are we all really cavemen at heart?
Is that the secret that underlies white male culture in America today – the thought that while time has passed, white males in America have never evolved past the days of the cavemen in the British Isles 500,000 years ago?
And while we are concentrating on studying the relationship between white male culture and the history of the British Isles which can most certainly can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today, do we have to consider that Britain had been permanently connected to the Continent by a chalk ridge between south-east England and northern France called the Weald-Artois Anticline, but during the Anglian Glaciation around 425,000 years ago a megaflood broke through the ridge, creating the English Channel, and after that Britain became an island when sea levels rose during interglacials?
Talk about having to develop some kind of traits to survive something that might live on in white male culture in the United States of America, it seems to me that traits developed to survive that mega-flood would have to be up towards the top of the list, if anything is to be.
And getting back to white male culture in America today as it developed in the British Isles, we also have to consider that fossils of very early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd in Wales.
Does that infusion of the Neanderthals into the mix help us to understand why white male culture in the United States today is fractured, with some being Democrats and progressives, while the rest of us are not?
And in pondering that conundrum, we are also forced to have to consider that Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned, and by 40,000 years ago they had become extinct and modern humans had reached Britain and the fact that their occupations were brief and intermittent due to a climate which swung between low temperatures with a tundra habitat and severe ice ages which made Britain uninhabitable for long periods, with the last of these, the Younger Dryas, ending around 11,700 years ago.
So obviously, we clearly did not have the right survival traits there, which might be a key to understanding why so many members of white male culture in the United States of America today are so wimpy and weak and just plain helpless.
As I say, this is most certainly fascinating concept these experts at this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners” have put forth that studying the relationship between white male culture and the history of the British Isles can help American white men see which traits – traits which secured their ancestor’s survival – live on in them today.
Stay tuned – more on this critically important topic related to the survival of white male culture in America is yet to come!
Paul Plante says
In the United States of America, we as citizens are supposed to possess as a human right “Freedom of Thought,” also called freedom of conscience or ideas, which is the freedom of an individual such as white male employees of Sandia National Laboratories, for example, to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others’ viewpoints, as I do in here openly and freely, not having to worry about being stripped of my employment as a result, as do these white male employees of Sandia National Laboratories, such as this mandatory training called “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations” is stupid horse****, and this crowd at this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners” are ******* imbecilic morons with this spew of ignorant horse**** above here that “white privilege is being able to buy a home in any neighborhood they want.”
Oh, really?
Since when?
If white privilege is being able to buy a home in any neighborhood I want, then by rights, I should be living in the Marina section of San Francisco near the Marina Green.
Except I’m not, because I don’t have the millions of dollars you need to buy one of those homes and then be able to pay the taxes on it.
So that is a stupid, ignorant statement, BUT …!
If I am forced to have to take that course, I am not allowed to challenge that, but must meekly accept it as true, instead, if I value my continued employment.
So do we really have freedom of thought, which is the precursor and progenitor of other liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression?
With respect to freedom of thought, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo reasoned thusly in Palko v. Connecticut (1937), to wit:
Freedom of thought… is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
With rare aberrations a pervasive recognition of this truth can be traced in our history, political and legal.
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So what is happening to that matrix, then, in this “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations?
Are this crowd at this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners” tearing that matrix asunder?
Which thought takes us to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that thought is inherently embedded in language, which hypothesis in turn supports the claim that an effort such as this crowd at this company called “White Men As Full Diversity Partners” is doing with this “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations” to limit the use of words of language is actually a form of restricting freedom of thought, which concept was explored in George Orwell’s novel 1984, with the idea of Newspeak, a stripped-down form of the English language alleged to lack the capacity for metaphor and limiting expression of original ideas.
In America today, people, if you are a white male, original ideas on your part are considered inherently racist because you have white privilege which means being able to buy a home in any neighborhood they want.
See how it works?
Just do what they tell you to do, and think how they tell you to think, and everything will work out alright for you in the end, because while you may no longer have self-respect, at least you will still have your job, maybe.