A newly revealed federal diversity program greatly expands earlier critical race training by creating a whole new minefield of “microaggressions” that some could believe are stereotypes and racism.
In the training package used at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, offering a black student a basketball should be considered offensive.
Not only are federal workers urged to consider what they say, but also how their comments are received. In one chart, a white male is shown saying he is “colorblind.” The black woman shown beside, however, takes as an insult that the white is denying her “racial/cultural being.”
And, it advised men, don’t interrupt a woman speaking because they hear, “Women’s ideas are not valued.”
The document was prepared by the agency’s Office of Civil Rights and obtained by Judicial Watch.
It urged federal workers to blow the whistle when they hear racial or offensive “microaggressions.” But it also asks accusers to give the “perpetrator” space to “unpack” his or her errors.
The training package is just the latest example of federal, state, and local governments pushing well past traditional training handbooks to eliminate offenses, real and perceived.
But it also draws attention to the cost and confusion on the issue.
“Federal Agencies shouldn’t abuse tax dollars for CRT indoctrination, which makes a mockery of serious race and sex discrimination issues,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This document from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows critical race theory is alive and well in the Biden administration,” he added.
