{"id":18570,"date":"2021-10-20T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2021-10-20T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:22:47","slug":"walmart-goes-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/20\/walmart-goes-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Goes Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No large company now-a-days is free from the tendrils of Critical Race Theory. <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1448742306077569047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">None<\/a>; not even <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/u5ZSp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walmart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOOP: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Walmart<\/a> has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a &quot;white supremacy system&quot; and teaches white hourly-wage workers that they are guilty of &quot;white supremacy thinking&quot; and &quot;internalized racial superiority.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Buckle up.\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448742306077569047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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\">Walmart launched the program with the Racial Equity Institute in 2018 and has trained more than 1,000 employees on the core principles of critical race theory, including &quot;intersectionality,&quot; &quot;internalized racial oppression,&quot;and &quot;white anti-racist development.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fy6wrMxb9U\">pic.twitter.com\/Fy6wrMxb9U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448743183391748106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We all know by now where this is heading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The program begins with the claim that the United States is a &quot;white supremacy system,&quot; designed by white Europeans for maintaining &quot;white skin access to power and privilege.&quot; Whites are thus subjected to &quot;racist conditioning&quot; that indoctrinates them into &quot;white supremacy.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r9rcn5wOBO\">pic.twitter.com\/r9rcn5wOBO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448743480243613696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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\">The Walmart program claims that whites are inherently guilty of &quot;white privilege&quot; and &quot;internalized racial superiority,&quot; or the belief that &quot;one\u2019s comfort, wealth, privilege and success has been earned by merits and hard work&quot; rather than through the benefits of systemic racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hRz4LoXafL\">pic.twitter.com\/hRz4LoXafL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448743725526511619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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\">Walmart argues that &quot;white supremacy culture&quot; can be summarized in a list of qualities including &quot;individualism,&quot; &quot;objectivity,&quot; &quot;paternalism,&quot; &quot;defensiveness,&quot; &quot;power hoarding,&quot; &quot;right to comfort,&quot; and &quot;worship of the written word&quot;\u2014which are &quot;damaging to [people of color].&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shIkDFBeFc\">pic.twitter.com\/shIkDFBeFc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448744033472311331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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\">Walmart tells minority employees that they suffer from &quot;constructed racist oppression&quot; and &quot;internalized racial inferiority,&quot; with internal messages such as &quot;we believe there is something wrong with being a person of color&quot; and &quot;we have a sense of limited possibility.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nAsFKx0OKS\">pic.twitter.com\/nAsFKx0OKS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448744210841038873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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\">Furthermore, Walmart tells minorities that they are programmed to believe the &quot;myths promoted by the racist system&quot; and develop feelings of &quot;self-hate,&quot; &quot;anger,&quot; &quot;rage,&quot; and &quot;ethnocentrism,&quot; and are forced to &quot;forget,&quot; &quot;lie,&quot; and &quot;stop feeling&quot; in order to secure basic survival. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e6fivDtrTH\">pic.twitter.com\/e6fivDtrTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448744579449057311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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;\">This is exactly how cults \u201cprogram\u201d their followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The solution, according to Walmart, is to encourage whites to participate in &quot;white anti-racist development,&quot; accept their &quot;guilt and shame,&quot; adopt the idea that &quot;white is not right,&quot; acknowledge their racism, and move toward &quot;collective action&quot; whereby &quot;white can do right.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWDyTbyfzA\">pic.twitter.com\/UWDyTbyfzA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448744706985259024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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;And of course this is about <em>actual<\/em> \u201csystemic privilege\u201d and <em>actual<\/em> \u201csystemic power\u201d by the Nomenklatura to keep racial Proles down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Walmart program is a study in hypocrisy. White male CEO Doug McMillon rakes in $22 million a year, while lecturing his hourly-wage employees on their &quot;internalized racial superiority&quot; and &quot;internalized racial inferiority.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlqhuzpkan\">pic.twitter.com\/xlqhuzpkan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1448745150885228575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/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;The full story can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/walmart-critical-race-theory-training-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christopher Rufo can be supported <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/crt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/walmart-is-evil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/walmart-is-evil.jpg 350w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/walmart-is-evil-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/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=\"Walmart Goes Woke\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"No large company now-a-days is free from the tendrils of Critical Race Theory. 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