Thread by @realchrisrufo

SCOOP: Verizon teaches employees that capitalism is fundamentally racist, that "weaponized White privilege" is a danger to African-Americans, and that employees should support "defunding the police."

I've obtained whistleblower documents that will shock you. 🧵

Last year, Verizon launched a "Race & Social Justice" initiative and created an extensive race reeducation program based on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "intersectionality."

To begin, Verizon diversity trainers instruct employees to deconstruct their intersectional identities, listing their “race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, education, profession, and sexual orientation," then determining their position on the "privilege" hierarchy.

Verizon then instructs employees on the firm’s elaborate racial-etiquette system, warning them against committing "microaggressions" and "microinequities." Members of the privileged classes must engage in the "lifelong process" of "accountability with marginalized individuals."

In a video, former DEI director Ramcess Jean-Louis claims that "weaponized White privilege" is a grave "danger" to African-Americans. Nearly crying, he says that blacks are often "not being viewed as humans" and "not being viewed as whole people with souls."

As part of the company's "antiracism" education series, Verizon VP David Hubbard interviewed Khalil Muhammad, great-grandson of former Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who denounced America and capitalism as "systems of racism."

Muhammad argued that the Founding Fathers built a slave economy and that "this early version of global capitalism" produced the "economic incentives" that prevail to this day, with corporations "exploiting poor people in low-income communities," like modern-day slaveowners.

Next, Muhammad claimed that the police force is designed to maintain America's "two-tier society," "make sure that kids are locked up," "make sure that people stay in their communities," and "make sure that they’re criminalizing poverty"—"the bread and butter of systemic racism."

Finally, Verizon hosted activist Adrian Burrell, who openly advocated for defunding police departments and moving money to "the community." As Burrell explained: "If you want to call that 'abolishing the police,' or if you want to call that 'defunding the police,' so be it."

Verizon’s corporate slogan is "Built Right." If Verizon executives want to live up to it, they should scrap their antiracism program.

Read the full story in City Journal:
city-journal.org/verizon-critic…

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