ASU lost its bid to have our case against its required DEI “inclusive communities” employee training tossed out. The judge required ASU to reply within 10 days, and last night, they sent their reply.
Image a room full of Ph.D.s and lawyers working hard to think up a reply to a lawsuit against their DEI “inclusive communities” training. These are the best of the best. The smartest you can find. What do they, in their collective wisdom, come up with?
Well, after discussing different approaches, one of them says, “How about this? How about we say that because we started the DEI training with a disclaimer telling employees not to feel blamed, we can then say whatever we want in the training?” The consultants in the room nod their heads. “I like it!” one of them says.
You might think I’m making this up, but that’s their argument before the judge. We didn’t break the law with race blame because before we talked about the problem of whiteness, we said, “Don’t feel blamed.” 😬🤣
Every criminal in the world was just given a free pass. According to this line of thinking, as long as you first say, “I don’t intend to break the law later today,” nothing you do later in the day can be considered breaking the law. Amazing! We could multiply examples. An abuser who first says, “Remember, I love you and don’t want you to feel abused” before starting the abuse. A drunk who says, “I don’t intend to drink and drive so later tonight that’s not what I’m doing.” A thief who says, “I don’t want you to feel like I’m stealing from you so don’t construe anything I do after this sentence as stealing.”
And now, apply this to ASU. “We don’t intend you to feel blamed by anything we say after this sentence.” Then they launch into a module about the problem of whiteness. And then one on the problem of heteronormativity. They can discriminate based on skin color, but they don’t want you to feel blamed.
Why wouldn’t they simply remove the “required” part of the training? It is such a simple solution, yet I really do believe it hasn’t even occurred to them. They are so ideologically committed that they can’t see that option. For them, they must continue teaching employees and students about the evils of whiteness. ASU runs a real risk of becoming known as the anti-white university. I love ASU too much to see that happen without saying something.
Now, even a humble philosopher like myself can see through this reasoning. And this was the best they had. I told you before they should hire me as their strategist. I used to play chess against myself to refine my skills so I suppose this would be something along those lines.
I’ll keep you updated about their next arguments. I’m looking forward to seeing what ASU officials say under oath.
The only reason they will fight to retain the "requirement" that all employees attend, is that getting an employee's signature on a sheet of paper acknowledging that they attended the appropriate brainwashing sessions, scripted and delivered by "certified instructors", are the equivalent of an insurance policy against being sued for millions if an white employee, while on the clock at ASU, hurts the feelings of an aggrieved minority.
It's that simple. Were a race-based lawsuit to be brought before a civil court, ASU could waive their liability for the actions of a white employee by submitting evidence that they sent said employee to a certified racial brainwashing training as a condition of new or future employment.
This is how the contemporary DEI hustle works. It's the modern version of a "shakedown ".
“But I said it with all due respect.”
-Ricky Bobby, and ASU, apparently