New York has decided to impose Critical Race Theory (CRT) training on all its employees. As an exclusive source told Fox News Digital, all city workers in the city led by Democrat Eric Adams, received a mandate requiring them to undergo "mandatory" training by March 6. "The training provides all NYC employees with a framework to understand the importance of racial equity in the workplace," reads the email the American news outlet received.
The training refers to the controversial point of view of what is known as Critical Race Theory, a concept that mantains that the United States has always been racist, and that even in its origins, the nation was designed to oppress minority groups to maintain the supremacy of the white race.
A "really unfair" training
And this movement advocates that this must be solved. However, this training is having the opposite effect, as a source familiar with the program told Fox News Digital:
Where they were discussing equity, how we have to look at people through a particular lens, that contradicted... [the idea that] we should treat everybody equally. I do not agree with what they want us to do as city employees. The [racial equity training] leads me to believe that they want the contracts with the city and the hiring from the city being looked at through this lens. And that's what I think is really unfair. It goes against their [stated claims]… that everybody should be treated equally.
The employee assured the media outlet that he took a dim view of being forced to take a course that, in his case, goes against his ideals. In this way, the training, Fox News discovered, mantains that there was no scientific basis for the existence of race:
Race has no genetic or scientific basis. It is a social construct created to classify people on the arbitrary basis of skin color and other physical features. Despite this, race has a very real impact on people's lives. This is because our society has used race to establish and justify systems of power, privilege, exclusion and oppression.
Three types of racism
The training went further and asserted that there is not only one way to divide people, but also, that along with "individual racism," there are two other ways to segregate people:
Institutional racism: policies, practices, patterns and structures within public and private institutions that impose oppressive or otherwise negative conditions on identifiable groups on the basis of race or ethnicity. Structural racism/Systematic racism: Racism that occurs across multiple institutions and is integrated into politics, culture and other aspects of life. Creating a system that negatively impacts communities of color compared to White communities.
To address this, the course argues that all New York City workplaces must institute an "equity lens". To do this, the course asserts, we must "embrace the idea that a problem may exist." In addition, the training continues, you need to be "aware of systematic racism and the possible presence of racial inequity in your workplace:"
Understand the dominant cultural patterns of your workplace and whether they are hurting or helping your diversity, equity and inclusion goals. Be Conscious. Unconscious Bias. Implicit bias occurs when our brains make quick judgments and assess people and situations without us consciously knowing or realizing it. These biases are pervasive and employees often possess them unintentionally.
