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The instructions also provided examples of racial reflections for White and non-White individuals. They suggested a non-White person might say the following about practicing yoga and meditating in the morning.
“This is really important to center myself and get ready for an environment that is racially hurtful while being oblivious to how racially hurtful they are. This morning ritual gives me strength and when I skip it, my days are more challenging.”
For brushing teeth and taking a shower, they might say: “Doing this timeline has awakened me to how much worry I carry of being a non-white racial stereotype. While doing this timeline, I’ve come to realize how my grooming is so much about not just being clean and healthy, it is more about showing an EXTRA CLEAN and WELL GROOMED non-white racial example. It’s also about preventing harmful perceptions not just of myself, but also of other non-whites like me.”
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By contrast, the instructions suggested a White person might worry about culturally appropriating “Indian culture” during yoga. They’re also provided the following example for teeth brushing and showering: “So many non-whites all around the world, even in Flint, Michigan or on some Native reservation don’t have access to clean safe drinking water, and I just wasted gallons of it in hour long shower. How did the world get so F-D up!”
James Lindsay, a longstanding opponent of critical race theory, told Fox News on Monday that the assignment seemed like compelled speech and a way to engender paranoia.
“”A ‘critical consciousness’ is hardly distinguishable from ideologically induced paranoia, and this exercise looks perfectly tailored to groom teachers into that.”
Lindsey currently hosts the podcast “New Discourses” and authored the book “Cynical Theories,” in which he explores the foundations and features of various aspects of critical theory.
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“The purpose of this exercise … is to make everything in the teachers’ lives be about awakening a (critical) racial consciousness,” he told Fox News. “The objective would be to program the teachers to turn around and teach their students to think this way too. This should get people fired.”
So-called “equity” trainings have emerged in states across the country and have generally been defended as ways to foster inclusion or inhibit systemic biases against minorities. The timeline instructions tout the exercise as a way to “enhance your journey in becoming more racially considerate, as well as more fluent in centering race.”
