Disney is asking employees to complete their “White Privilege Checklist.”
The company with a net worth of $122 billion dollars want their employees to fill out the checklist and insists America was founded on “systemic racism,” according to newly leaked documents.
According to materials published by journalist Christopher F. Rufo, Disney Company recently introduced a “diversity and inclusion” program titled “Reimagine Tomorrow.”
The program is being presented as an “anti-racism discussion guide” and an “allyship for race consciousness.” The program asks the question, What can I do about racism?”
Rufo says there are modules on the subjects of “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” “white saviors,” “microaggressions,” and “anti-racism.”
The Disney Company claims that America has a “long history of systemic racism and transphobia.”
According to a trove of whistleblower materials, Disney has launched a “diversity and inclusion” program, called “Reimagine Tomorrow,” which includes trainings on “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” “white saviors,” “microaggressions,” and “antiracism.” pic.twitter.com/l41Dltugfg
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) May 8, 2021
The training manual tells employees to “recognize your colleagues are also processing the ways in which the pandemic is disproportionately affecting the Black community.” The guide instructs employees to “take ownership of educating [themselves] about structural anti-Black racism” by seeking out “Black authors, journalists, and organizations.”
However, employees should “not rely on [their] Black colleagues to educate [them],” because it is “emotionally taxing.”
“Avoid conflating the Black experience with other communities of color,” the training module reportedly states. “While other people of color are subject to racism, there is a unique history that has led to anti-Black racism and the ways in which that shows up.”
Disney, one of the largest media conglomerates on the planet that owns ABC, ESPN, Touchstone Pictures, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar, prescribes that employees should reject “equality” and “equal treatment,” but instead strive for “equity,” “where we focus on the equality of the outcome, not the equality of the experience by taking individual needs and skills into account.”
White employees are told to “work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed.” They must “listen with empathy [to] Black colleagues” and “not question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience.” pic.twitter.com/PkLnMhaqrA
— Christopher F. Rufo
Disney sponsored the creation of a “21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge” and recommended it to employees. The challenge begins with a lesson on “systemic racism” and tells participants they have “all been raised in a society that elevates white culture over others.” pic.twitter.com/VDN6TUqhma
— Christopher F. Rufo
