https://www.newsweek.com/white-people-racist-contract-anti-racism-work-1747776'I Was Asked To Agree to a "White People Are Racist" Contract at Work'
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we had affinity groups where staff were separated out into groups based on ethnicity, for example into a white group and a Black group. I was told that I had to attend a white affinity group meeting, but eventually, I was given permission to not attend, because I really didn't agree with being separated by race.
I also felt that, as a Jew, the last thing I wanted to do was to be separated by race.
So why call yourself a Jew? Is not the Jewish identity itself intended to separate Jews from non-Jews?
I personally found the language used against white people to be very dehumanizing.
Prior to when they called themselves "whites", we treated them like any other humans. Then they decided to call themselves "whites" and everyone else "non-whites". Why should we thereafter continue to treat them as before?
At one point, I had requested that an article on anti-Semitism be included in the company's anti-racism resources, where they included information on Islamophobia and other prejudices experienced by minorities. My request was denied. I was told that the decision had been made a while back not to include this material.
it created a big firestorm where my motivations and timing were questioned, with some people suggesting that I was highlighting Black perpetrators of anti-Semitism in order to sow division. This struck me as highly unfair. Why shouldn't the religious group most targeted by hate crimes in America be part of the DEI discussion? Why must focusing on one community's pain mean that there's no room to focus on others?
Because racists deserve pain.
Meanwhile, one of the trainings I was given noted that white supremacy is "a smog we all ingest." Another was about how our organization was complicit in systemic racism and white supremacy. It was a given that if you're white, you're racist. And I was even asked to agree to a "Full Value Contract" shared over email that included a point saying we had to "Own that all white people are racist and that I am not the exception."
You definitely are not the exception, given you think racists do not deserve pain!
I recall that the meeting was to see whether I am safe to be around my colleagues and clients of color.
You are not. This is why Hitler had concentration camps for those like you.
I don't think you can fix racism through what I saw as more racism. You can't fix racism against Black and brown people by, as I saw it, casting aspersions against people who aren't of color.
Anti-"whiteness" (including anti-Jewishness) is anti-racism. What really ensures we will never end racism is when we are (as you demand) not even allowed to take point out the ethnotribes as ethnotribes!
I don't personally believe in Ibram X. Kendi's idea of anti-racism—which in part states that the only way to address prior racist discrimination is through present anti-racist discrimination—is going to eliminate racism, I personally think it's going to make it worse. By pitting different identities against each other.
We are not pitting different identities against each other. (Has Kendi ever called for one "non-white" category to attack another "non-white" category?) We are rallying all "non-whites" regardless of the identities (e.g. "black", "AAPI", etc.) forced upon them against those (ie. "whites" (including Jews)) who invented all these identities in the first place and actively perpetuate them every day just like you are doing right now!
You're not allowed to scapegoat any race, including white people, for whatever purpose.
So "whites" (including Jews) are allowed to operate ethnotribally but pointing out this phenomenon is not allowed? This is what you are demanding.
If "whites" didn't want to be targeted as "whites", they should simply have never started calling themselves "whites". Anti-racism is not scapegoating (which itself was invented by Jews):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat#Ancient_JudaismThe scapegoat was a goat that was designated (Hebrew: לַעֲזָאזֵֽל) la-'aza'zeyl; "for absolute removal" (for symbolic removal of the people's sins with the literal removal of the goat), and outcast in the desert as part of the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement, that began during the Exodus with the original Tabernacle and continued through the times of the temples in Jerusalem.
Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the Cohen Gadol sacrificed a bull as a sin offering to atone for sins he may have committed unintentionally throughout the year. Subsequently he took two goats and presented them at the door of the tabernacle. Two goats were chosen by lot: one to be "for YHWH", which was offered as a blood sacrifice, and the other to be the scapegoat to be sent away into the wilderness and pushed down a steep ravine where it died.[12].
Anti-racism is the goats and the bull joining forces and fighting back!
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I did not want to take this action, but I do feel like I was pushed into a corner.
I'm sure the Cohen Gadol felt the same when sacrificing the bull.
If I saw an instance of racism, I would do something about it, but I hadn't.
Have you ever read the Tanakh? If so, why are you still a Jew?
My relationship with my clients of color is very good. I represent them to the best of my abilities. And I get a lot of positive feedback.
The same is often true of herders' relationship with their herd animals. Until the moment the herders slaughter them, of course.