I don't intend to use this mailing list to harp on this divisive topic, but I also am reacting to the denialist article send by DM, which flies in the face of an overwhelming amount of documentation ... so for 2-3 days, I may send some items, so that nobody can claim, "Ich have this nich gewusst". Michel Benjamin Morley wrote a piece for our *Fair for all* Substack about his personal run-ins with race essentialist diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings while working for Vermont’s Department of Aging and Independent Living. Morley describes the training he and others experienced in detail: The trainers attempted to impose their ideology on us by changing our perceptions and values related to areas such as equity, privilege, racism, identity, family, politics, and spiritual beliefs. They also sought to alter our self-perception based on which identity groups we were members of, and how this group membership affected our status in American society. The facilitator tried to normalize this new philosophy by encouraging us to completely re-evaluate our individual identities, part of what she referred to as “doing the work.” Morley and others were accused of racism, and he remembers witnessing the “fear, sadness, and guilt” the training instilled in his coworkers. However, this was interpreted by the trainers as merely a symptom of “doing the work” that’s necessary to combat “whiteness” and systemic racism. When Morely decided to voice his misgivings about the training, he discovered that he was indeed not alone—many of his coworkers felt the same way, but were simply too afraid to to speak up. Morely believes this dynamic is common, and hopes his story encourages more people to start speaking up. https://fairforall.substack.com/p/i-spoke-out-against-discriminatory -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/