15 days ago
The Atlantic
The school had a contract with a DEI-training company to educate all the faculty and administrators via a three-day retreat on race. The white facilitator then sat down cross-legged on the floor and spent an hour telling us how racist she was. Then a white teacher started crying and said she'd been picked on for being poor and dark-skinned as a kid. Facilitators: “In the last session, you used the word ‘Orientalism.’ We want you to know that ‘Oriental’ is a very racist term to describe Asian people. Here, in this space, ‘Oriental’ is a racist term.
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