The Counterweight Handbook

Over the last several years, organisations and institutions throughout the West ¿ both public and private ¿ have adopted comprehensive diversity and inclusion policies and new forms of employee and student training on antiracism, unconscious bias, gender diversity, cultural sensitivity and other related topics. The stated goals of these programs are often reasonable if not noble ¿ to create a more welcoming space and inclusive environment for all. But such training, when based on the activist ideology known as Critical Social Justice, crosses a clear line when participants are required to affirm beliefs they do not hold. The mildest questions about or objections to common teachings in the sessions ¿ that all white people are racists, that all underrepresented minorities are oppressed or useful tools of the majority, that sex and gender differences have no biological basis ¿ are regularly met with pat commands: ¿Educate yourself,¿ ¿Do the work,¿ ¿Listen and learn.¿

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