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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

22 Sep, 10 tweets, 5 min read

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SCOOP: @CVSHealth CEO Larry Merlo earned 618 times more than the median CVS employee salary, while simultaneously promoting the idea that America is "racist" and forcing hourly-wage workers to deconstruct their racial and sexual "privilege."

Here is the full story.👇

Last year, Merlo—who has since retired—launched an extensive race reeducation program, built on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "intersectionality," "white privilege," and "unconscious bias."

Merlo hosted a conversation with critical race guru Ibram Kendi, who told 25,000 CVS employees that "to be born in [America] is to literally have racist ideas rain on our head consistently and constantly." As a result, Americans are "completely soaked in racist ideas."

Kendi argued that two- and three-year-old children are deeply racist: "Our kids are basically functioning on racist ideas, choosing who to play with based on the kid's skin color." The solution, in part, is to "diagnose" them as "racist" in order to help them become “antiracist."

In a mandatory training, CVS executives forced hourly-wage employees to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their "privilege"—a practice informed by the theory of "intersectionality."

Examples of privilege, according to a checklist, included "celebrat[ing] Christmas," "hav[ing] a name that is easy to pronounce," "feel[ing] safe in your neighborhood at night," and "feel[ing] confident in my leadership style."

In another module, CVS executives created detailed racial etiquette "reference cards" telling employees stop using "problematic phrases" such as "I'm not racist," "I'm colorblind," "I grew up poor," "peanut gallery," and "we must stand up for minorities."

The irony of these corporate "privilege" programs is inescapable. Last year, CEO Larry Merlo earned 618 times the median CVS employee salary, yet still lectured his 300,000 employees—many of whom live in poverty—about their "privilege."

Corporate "diversity and inclusion" programs are a scam: far from being a bottom-up program of empowerment, the new ideology of "antiracism" allows elites to assuage their guilt and shift blame to the average American.

Read the full story at City Journal:
city-journal.org/inside-cvs-hea…

P.S. I'm working on a ten-part investigative series on critical race theory in America's Fortune 100 companies. To get the latest stories, sign up for my free newsletter here:

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