Asking an Asian person for math help is a microaggression. Reverse racism does not exist. Men can get pregnant.
Those are just a few of the lessons imparted to government workers in diversity trainings and presentations in 2021, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal editorial page. The materials, summarized in a December 30 editorial, show how once-fringe ideas have saturated the federal bureaucracy, from the Department of Veterans Affairs to NASA and the military.
One NASA training states that efforts to be colorblind “actually limit us.” Another identifies the words “America is a melting pot” and “don’t you want a family?” as “microaggressions,” along with “asking an Asian person to help with a math or science problem.” A third lists “perfectionism” and “data is king” as examples of “common leadership mistakes.”
“Value and center lived experience,” the presentation says. “Do not demand data in order to accept a person’s individual perspective or to utilize that perspective in decision-making.”
The focus on subjective experience extends to the Army, where two separate trainings, one for commanders and another for “special staff,” feature a vignette about a soldier who wants to “discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” Another vignette collapses the distinction between gender and biological sex, imagining a urine collector who is uncomfortable observing soldiers who are not “the same biological gender as the observer.”
The Army did not respond to a request for comment.
Many of these presentations came after President Joe Biden signed an executive order in June 2021 instructing agencies to beef up their diversity programming. “Such training programs should enable federal employees, managers, and leaders to have knowledge of systemic and institutional racism and bias,” the order said, as well as an “increased understanding of implicit and unconscious bias.”
The lessons don’t come cheap: From 2020 to 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone spent over $300,000 on dozens of diversity trainings, including “Let’s Talk About Systemic Racism, Unconscious Bias, and Privilege,” “Silence is a Statement: Understanding Race in the Workplace,” and “Bambi vs. Godzilla: Dealing with Different, Diverse, and Sometimes Difficult People.”
Several presentations use cartoons to illustrate progressive concepts. A training for the Department of Veterans Affairs includes the now-infamous “genderbread” diagram that has been featured in elementary school curricula. A presentation to the National Endowment for the Arts contrasts “equality” with “equity” by juxtaposing two images of people watching a ball game from behind a fence—one in which individuals of different heights are on equal footing and another in which shorter individuals are given a larger leg up than taller ones.
“Justice,” the cartoon suggests, would mean tearing down the fence entirely….
Full story at Washington Free Beacon.
One NASA training states that efforts to be colorblind “actually limit us.” Another identifies the words “America is a melting pot” and “don’t you want a family?” as “microaggressions,” along with “asking an Asian person to help with a math or science problem.”
That just means NASA won’t be hiring any Asian scientists. Fixed. Can’t ask them for help went there’s a problem.
Does anybody celebrate Epiphany?
The newly-elected California Democratic Congressman, Rep. Robert Garcia, a former mayor of Long Beach– and the first immigrant, openly-homosexual Congressman is bragging that he will be sworn into office in Congress, using three items– on top, a copy of the U.S. Constitution, under that, a photo of his deceased parents, whom he lost to COVID-19 in 2020– and on the bottom of this pile– an original copy of “Superman,” borrowed fron the Library of Congress!! Rep. Garcia said that as a child, he learned to read and write in English, using the original “Superman” comics! This crazy swearing-in ceremony that he invented, does not sound right to me.
Well, I always thought that swearing on a Bible, where the Lord said not to swear, was kind of odd, too.
The Lord was referring to something entirely different, when He said to not swear or take oaths, vows, or promises. In this case, Christ was referring to phony hypocrites such as the Pharisees, who take big oaths, vows, or promises– and later break them. Christ said that His followers should have great honesty and integrity, and should simply say either “yes” or “no,” honestly– and stand by it.
There is no rule that an oath must be sworn to on a Bible. One can, in fact, attest to the oath. Muslims don’t take their oath on a Bible. I’m sure other faiths have their “book.”
That is true. But to see some elected officials use comic books and other “nonsense” that is meaningful only to them, makes the official ceremony seem ridiculous.
When Pete Buttigieg got sworn in as Secretary of Transportation, by VP Kamala Harris– his “husband,” Chasten, held a Bible belonging to Pete’s mother, for the ceremony– and reportedly gazed at Pete, with tears in his eyes.That’s nuttier than using comic books for the ceremony! I know that Pete and Chasten also adopted two children– that is so wrong! Such immoral relationships– gay “marriage,” and gay adoptions
— or worse– should be illegal, especially for our public leaders. What if the two men had a deviant, violent, sick and filthy Master/Slave, BDSM gay “marriage?” How do you explain such filth, sin, and corruption, to American schoolchildren– and expect them to look up to and admire our American political leaders?