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Google employee program claims that America is a “system of white supremacy”

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They're not wrong. A person of color may be able to survive and succeed, but it's a lot tougher.

Also true: The son of a coal miner in West Virgina is going to have a lot tougher path to success than the son of Sundar Pichai. And yet they don't teach their employees that 'America is a system of plutocrat supremacy'.

It's really about class, not about race. Unfortunately, that son of a coal miner can get a haircut and a nice suit and pass for a member of the upper class. A person with brown skin, not so much.

I don't know if the issue is that their observations are incorrect. Many of the things they point out are true. The issue is that if you don't accept their solutions and their re-education programs (which strongly lean towards authoritarian and leftist) then you are still considered part of the problem. It's not that different from when politicians use states of emergency to push in policies they couldn't otherwise.

This may be true, but is the answer to stoke the flames by accentuating racial differences? This is a far cry from MLK's vision of a colorblind society.

Any googlers: is this class being taught at google? Are employees required to go through it?

It's the biggest victory of the elite in the last decade(s). They turned a socio-economical class problem (poor workers vs rich) that infects the current state of capitalism into a race warfare. Turn people against each other so we can live free. Google and the other mega tech companies just keep doing that so they can get away with whatever they want and no one turns against them.

I think it was more induced by ideological teachers that have more of a problem with others than they care about equality.

But yes, it basically bombed movements like Occupy Wallstreet. The goals might have been questionable from the start, but you cannot succeed in anything if some self important people suddenly make it about racisms with the help of racism.

They might help the elite, but I believe they do it for free.

Can someone please define "white"?

Sure, see p. 2 of this doc for how the University of California defines "white": https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/R...

This place ain't racist, it's merely a coincidence that the top of the Forbes 500 is very light skinned, and every president but one is the same. Let's also not think about how the next president we elected after the black one famously spread rumors questioning the black presidents birthplace, before running for office and winning.

Coincidence I tell you.

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