As Twitchy reported the other day, Christopher Rufo dressed down The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes by asking him what he’d actually done about the spread of critical race theory in schools, businesses, and government agencies, which he claimed to oppose. “I’m driving outcomes in the real world; you’re just moaning about it,” Rufo declared.
Rufo is unstoppable, and he’s back with another one of his whistleblower threads, this one about a three-day “reeducation camp” for select executives at Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor. And as usual, he’s brought the documents to back it up.
SCOOP: @LockheedMartin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent key executives to a three-day white male reeducation camp in order to deconstruct their “white male culture” and atone for their “white male privilege.”
I've obtained internal documents that will shock you.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
The program was led by the consulting firm White Men As Full Diversity Partners, which specializes in helping white males “awaken together.” The participants included a former three-star general and the vice president of production for the $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program. pic.twitter.com/x5YU2bBNbn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
“Lockheed Martin White Men’s Caucus” — it sounds like a choir ensemble.
We’ve heard of White Men as Full Diversity Partners before; they’d been hired to do the same camp for Sandia National Laboratories, the federal government’s premier nuclear research lab. However, that training had been shut down.
To begin, the diversity trainers led a “free association” exercise, asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the term “white men.” The trainers wrote down “old, racist, privileged, anti-women, angry, Aryan Nation, KKK, Founding fathers, guns, guilty, can’t jump.” pic.twitter.com/7FI7uqegJs
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
Good old boys network, Aryan Nation, guns, self-reliant, NASCAR, chauvinist, KKK, hard-working … we’ve seen the Smithsonian’s display on “whiteness,” so we’re not sure if things like “independent,” “self-reliant” and “hard-working” are positives or negatives. Dismantling white culture means doing away with rugged individualism and the nuclear family and replacing them with collectivism and community — just check the Black Lives Matter manifesto.
The trainers then asked “what’s in it for white men,” listing responses: “I won’t get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner,” “[I will] improve the brand, image, reputation of white men,” and “I [will] have less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem.” pic.twitter.com/DSRhT55XQy
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
White Men As Full Diversity Partners argues that the “roots of white male culture” include traits such as “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” “operating from principles,” and “striving towards success”—which are “devastating” to women and minorities. pic.twitter.com/DgeiOAJrFG
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
Told you — rugged individualism is a building block of white supremacist culture. “Focus on hard work, action, and task completion” — all rooted in whiteness.
Next, participants were asked to repeat and internalize 50 “white privilege statements,” including: “My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races”; “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race.” pic.twitter.com/uA8tZXajFi
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
Participants then repeated and internalized 59 “male privilege statements,” including: “My earning potential is 15-33% higher than a woman’s”; “My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender.” pic.twitter.com/NFC4vc53us
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
Next, participants repeated and internalized 59 “heterosexual privilege statements,” including: “I am not asked to think about why I am straight”; “I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.” pic.twitter.com/fFv68gxSpP
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
“I can work around children without being accused of recruiting them?” Better sign up the Lincoln Project for reeducation.
Finally, the white males read a series of “I’m tired” statements from fictitious racial minorities and women, including: “I’m tired of being Black”; “I’m tired of Black boys/girls being murdered”; “I’m tired of … the concept that we should be ‘colorblind.’” pic.twitter.com/DzpWlaftvx
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
This is pure neoracism from a company that receives billions of taxpayer dollars every year.
I call on the United States Senate to launch an immediate inquiry into the racist practices at @LockheedMartin. We must shut this down before it endangers our national security.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 26, 2021
I gotta say White Male Culture sounds awesome, we should reccomend it to everyone. Hard work, thinking of the future, can do attitude, that sounds great. A little racist and sexist to suggest people who aren’t white or male don’t value those things though.
— Mostly Harmless (@mostlyh85078050) May 26, 2021
We feel like we need to hit you with a spray bottle like a cat on the furniture. You should not recommend white male culture to everyone because American culture is already rooted in it. It’s systemic and needs to be dismantled.
One day there is going to be an acceptance that a lot of this was one great shakedown.
— Chop Shop (@Chopshop2011) May 26, 2021
if this ended Lockheed that would be a very good time
— Jackson Charles Eubanks (@therechtsstaat) May 26, 2021
They ain’t our only aerospace company doing this.
— obviouslyyourenotagolpher (@elcooksta) May 26, 2021
And the Department of Defense will pay them back for most of it through their contracts
— Mark Reeder (@NumbersMan65) May 27, 2021
Managerial courage is sorely missing.
— Scott McNealy (@scottmcnealy) May 27, 2021
We’ve lost our damn minds.
— Chris Miller (@dumbhandle) May 27, 2021
This can't possibly be true…is it? If so, then I fear for this nation moving forward
— TC Green (@bentedges) May 27, 2021
"Shock"? I think we're all beyond that now.
— Alboinus Rex (@alboinusrex) May 27, 2021
There are so many more clients of White Men as Full Diversity Partners and similar outfits out there. These are only the ones we see.
Related:
SAD: It looks like White Men as Full Diversity Partners may have lost a sweet government contract https://t.co/f0pnTghO8Y
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 13, 2020
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