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Jodi Shaw, Part II

The Smith College whistleblower has more on the liberal arts college's institutional racist hostility
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Jodi Shaw, the whistleblower at Smith College, has Part Two of her exposé of the anti-white racialism at the elite liberal arts school:

She said she doesn’t come to work to talk about religion, race, or anything. She just wants to do her work. But she was required by her employer to go to a retreat. The reader who sent me the link characterizes (accurately) Shaw’s discussion:

You may be aware that Jodi Shaw released another video yesterday. This one concerns thee days of diversity training that Smith College required her to participate in. On the first day, the diversity consultants asked Jodi and her co-workers, in a group setting, to describe their race in the context of their childhood, adolescence, and college years. Why anyone in a work setting would want to hear this, let alone feel entitled to know it, is beyond me.

For her part, and I can easily identify with this, Jodi did not want to share anything so personal (and unnecessary) with the group. When it was her turn, she simply said that she was uncomfortable talking about this subject and wanted to pass. Go to the 4:10 mark in the video to see how the diversity consultant responded later in the day. That individual told the group that any white person who expresses discomfort or distress when asked to comment on her race is not actually experiencing discomfort but is engaged in white fragility. Such a person, the consultant said, is merely engaged in a “power play.”

Jodi rightly described this experience as a public humiliation. She was insulted and shamed in front of her colleagues for reasons based upon the color of her skin. That a victim of a struggle session can be described as engaged in a power play only proves who actually holds the power in this ideological arena. Not her. It is astounding to me that an employer would allow this type of “training” to occur in the workplace, let alone pay big money to these consultants. The employer who demands this type of training is opening itself up to claims of a racially hostile work environment.

Consider, for example, some of the things that courts look at when determining whether a work environment is racially hostile: Was the conduct threatening or humiliating? Was it severe? How frequent was it? Did it unreasonably interfere with the employee’s job? In Jodi Shaw’s case, the answer to some of these questions is a resounding yes. She certainly felt humiliated, and it definitely impacted her ability to go to work without feeling shame and simply perform her job. One can argue that this struggle session was adequately severe. As for frequency, we know that Jodi experienced other, similar actions in the workplace that negatively impacted her because of her race.

The more the public becomes aware of these types of training sessions, the greater the disdain they will feel for the indoctrination that these diversity consultants are attempting to implement. All but the most woke will squirm with discomfort at the idea of being a mandatory participant in a struggle session. And the more often we see these training sessions occur, the greater the likelihood that they will become the subject of discrimination lawsuits, as well they should.

The reader is an employment lawyer.

She says that based on her specific experience in the mandatory training, she concluded that whites can no longer avoid talking about their own private beliefs. Silence isn’t enough. She said that when she declined to answer a diversity trainer’s question about how race affected her life as a child, she was publicly shamed by the trainer.

Would you want your kid to go to Smith, or any college, and be treated like this? Would you want your kid to be socialized into a system that treats others this way? No!

Sue them, Jodi Shaw. Sue the hell out of them.

In the video, she asks journalists to contact her, because she filed a 100-page formal complaint of a hostile workplace environment at Smith, but the college did not act on it. I contacted her when she first went public, but didn’t back from her. It could be because she described herself in her first video as a “lifelong liberal,” and she refuses to talk to conservative journalists. Or maybe there’s another reason. I know that there are some liberal journalists who read this blog. Please watch her videos, and tell her story. This is a liberal woman whom an elite institutions with a billion-dollar endowment is trying to crush because she will not conform to its hideous racial orthodoxies. The Left used to be on the side of people like her. Maybe some of you still are.

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