{"id":16876,"date":"2020-08-06T01:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16876"},"modified":"2020-08-06T01:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:33:29","slug":"struggle-sessions-come-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/06\/struggle-sessions-come-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggle Sessions Come To Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2018\/12\/18\/the-children-of-the-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Struggle Sessions of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution<\/a> was a tool to insure ideological adherence by humiliation, torturing, and even <em>literally<\/em> cannibalizing those\u2014including those who had been zealous revolutionaries themselves but not \u201cenlightened\u201d by the new days standards\u2014deemed not sufficiently pro-revolution, and thus class enemies were forced to admit their counter-revolutionary since ostensibly for their benefit but in reality to not only strengthen the regime but bring people closer to it by privileging them due to explicit participation in sessions against the \u201ccounter revolutionaries\u201d. \u00a0 While physical punishment, executions, and cannibalism are not being (openly at least) exercise, the humiliation and forced apologetism of the Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution has come to the City of Seattle\u2019s so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1288585254555357184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Civil Rights<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16877\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Four-Types-of-Racism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Four-Types-of-Racism.png 516w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Four-Types-of-Racism-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christopher F. Rufo, from City Journal, obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/G5S1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documentation<\/a> outlining just such a segregated \u201cstruggle session\u201d aimed at all White city employees and only White city employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">Seattle&#39;s Office of Civil Rights has developed a &quot;race and social justice&quot; curriculum for all 10,000 city employees.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve obtained new documents from the city&#39;s segregated &quot;whites-only&quot; trainings, which induct white employees into the cult of critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>A thread.\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288585254555357184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever\u201d is the new woke truth to stop \u201cracism\u201d, \u2018twould seem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >The training is called &quot;Internalized Racial Superiority for White People.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After attendees arrive, they must announce their pronouns and tell the trainers when they first became race-conscious\u2014in other words, when they began their journey of internalized racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ura3KDesnb\">pic.twitter.com\/ura3KDesnb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288586102199132161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Notice how they presume that all White people are racist, and it is only a matter of finding out the particulars?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201ctransgender\u201d element of announcing \u201cpronouns\u201d fits in with the entire \u201cintersectional\u201d view of \u201cinterlocking hierarchies\u201d of the \u201ckyriarchy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >According to the Office of Civil Rights, white employees must process their &quot;white feelings&quot; of &quot;sadness, shame, paralysis, confusion, [and] denial.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Then, they must take action to &quot;redistribute resources, change who&#39;s in power, [and] alter institutions.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vG8uDXE9Ak\">pic.twitter.com\/vG8uDXE9Ak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288586975063052288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shame and humiliation followed by a fig leaf of faux forgiveness and hopes of avoided further shame and humiliation by becoming zealous advocates of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The Cultural Revolution<\/span> <em>Social &amp; Racial Justice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >Next, white employees must examine their &quot;relationships with white supremacy, racism, and whiteness.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>They must explain how their &quot;[families] benefit economically from the system of white supremacy even as it directly and violently harms Black people.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GUcGTcGUPo\">pic.twitter.com\/GUcGTcGUPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288588158750212097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broke: Speech is speech and violence is violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Woke: Speech is violence and violence is speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bespoke: The existence of White people is violence so shut up and parrot out talking points!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >In the next two &quot;reflections,&quot; the trainers ask the white employees how their &quot;white fragility&quot; is &quot;showing up at work&quot; and how their &quot;white silence&quot; causes &quot;harm to Black people.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>All white employees are expected to share examples of their own racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16yKgg7yGM\">pic.twitter.com\/16yKgg7yGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288588691951112192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not enough to just do as you are told if you are White, you must speak and advocate what you are told if you are White. Being compelled to express a view and act accordingly is what the Left consider \u201cprivilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWhite Fragility\u201d is a Kafka Trap whereby any denial is proof of guilt: Heads they win; tails they lose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >The Office of Civil Rights then claims that &quot;white people internalize the system of white supremacy&quot; through the racist values of &quot;individualism,&quot; &quot;intellectualization,&quot; &quot;objectivity,&quot; and &quot;comfort.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Those values most be abolished from the work of city government. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Xam5bkAwX\">pic.twitter.com\/3Xam5bkAwX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288589189282295809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They hate individalism because it conflicts for their ideologies need to treat people as simple examples of a collective and thus receive perpetual collective justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Objectivity conflicts with the Deconstructionism and \u201c2+2=5\u201d mentality needed to keep up the Orwellian doublethink, which makes the inclusion of \u201ccognitive dissonance\u201d oh so ironic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >Finally, white employees must implicate themselves in the system of white supremacy. <\/p>\n<p>They must share &quot;a time in the past two to three months when [they] &#8230; caused harm to a person of color.&quot; Once they have publicly established their guilt, they have completed the training. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JLHuxLGoFY\">pic.twitter.com\/JLHuxLGoFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288590050955898880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16770\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-show-me-the-man-and-i-ll-find-you-the-crime-lavrentiy-beria-113-78-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-show-me-the-man-and-i-ll-find-you-the-crime-lavrentiy-beria-113-78-04.jpg 850w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-show-me-the-man-and-i-ll-find-you-the-crime-lavrentiy-beria-113-78-04-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-show-me-the-man-and-i-ll-find-you-the-crime-lavrentiy-beria-113-78-04-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >According to the critical race theorists, racism is everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>It is in every society (&quot;structural&quot;), every organization (&quot;institutional&quot;), every relationship (&quot;interpersonal&quot;), and every individual (&quot;internalized&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>There is no escape. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCU4VXIPbG\">pic.twitter.com\/fCU4VXIPbG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288591122109829120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cRacism\u201d is a maligning mystical miasma of malevolent malfeasance, and ever present devil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >It&#39;s a deep and terrible irony that this kind of pseudoscience and race essentialism is now being peddled by the &quot;Office of Civil Rights.&quot; It&#39;s an abuse of power and does nothing to improve the culture. <\/p>\n<p>More and more, it&#39;s old-style racism masquerading as &quot;antiracism.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288592622961844226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By \u201cirony\u201d and \u201cantiracism\u201d he clearly meant \u201cOrwellian\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >Seattle&#39;s Office of Civil Rights is now explicitly endorsing segregationism, group-based guilt, and race reductionism\u2014ugly concepts that should have been left behind a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s absolutely Orwellian: the guardians of &quot;civil rights&quot; are the architects of the &quot;new racism.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288594460276740096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In other words, this is just an example of the Left <em>projecting<\/em> their own tyranny on others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >In the coming weeks, I will be filling an official civil rights complaint against Seattle&#39;s Office of Civil Rights. <\/p>\n<p>They have created a new form of &quot;institutional racism&quot; that violates the core principle of &quot;equality under the law.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s time to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288595340564692993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\" >\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\" >P.S. Read the full materials for &quot;Internalized Racial Superiority for White People&quot; here.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AK1kBqvE0a\">https:\/\/t.co\/AK1kBqvE0a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1288602560383684608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slides can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/seattle-office-of-civil-rights-training-on-internalized-racial-superiority-for-white-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Don\u2019t think that this is just limited to Seattle or a few other woke places here or there. \u00a0 The seeds have been planted and it\u2019s coming to you, even in the private sector, even if you don\u2019t work whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Parade of Fans for Houston\u2019s Funeral\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Struggle Sessions of Mao's Cultural Revolution was a tool to insure ideological adherence by humiliation, torturing, and even literally cannibalizing those\u2014including those who had been zealous revolutionaries themselves but not 'enlightened' by the new days standards\u2014deemed not sufficiently pro-revolution, and thus class enemies were forced to admit their counter-revolutionary since ostensibly for their benefit but in reality to not only strengthen the regime but bring people closer to it by privileging them due to explicit participation in sessions against the 'counter revolutionaries'.  While physical punishment, executions, and cannibalism are not being (openly at least) exercise, the humiliation and forced apologetism of the Mao's Cultural Revolution has come to the City of Seattle's so-called 'Office of Civil Rights'.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Four-Types-of-Racism.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Struggle Sessions of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution was a tool to insure ideological adherence by humiliation, torturing, and even literally cannibalizing those\u2014including those who had been zealous revolutionaries themselves but not \u201cenlightened\u201d by the new days standards\u2014deemed not sufficiently pro-revolution, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/06\/struggle-sessions-come-to-seattle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,65,46,24,48],"class_list":["post-16876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-doom","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions\/16881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}