Coca Cola implements training for employees to be less white

[Stevicus]

Coca-Cola has employees take training on how to 'be less white' to combat racism

Coca-Cola is making employees go through racism training that teaches the company’s workers how to “be less white.”

“Wut.... this seems like blatant racial discrimination to this employment lawyer,” said lawyer Harmeet K. Dhillon on Twitter in response to the training.

Dhillon was responding to a post that shared images of the training allegedly being taught by Coca-Cola.

"These images are from an internal whistleblower,” the tweet said, along with images from the training.

The training then moves to a slide with instructions on how employees can “be less white.”

“Be less oppressive, be less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive, be less ignorant, be more humble, listen, believe, break with apathy, break with white solidarity” are listed as ways to become less white.

The training then claims that this effort to be less white has to start early, as children as young as three are already taught that their white race makes them inherently superior.

“In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” the slide reads. “Research shows that by age 3 to 4, children understand that it is better to be white.”

“Try to be less white,” the training concludes.

I think things like this are a bit of a smokescreen, especially since most liberals and progressives have allowed Corporate America to set the tone and direction of the narrative on this and many other issues. They've outsourced "enlightenment" to a third party vendor, and this is the result. Racism is caused by corporate elites and the ruling class, yet this "training" is basically the elites deflecting blame and attempting to put it back on the lower classes.

 

[Rival]

This is racist.

 

[Revoltingest]

This is racist.

If I worked there, I'd find an ambulance chaser (lawyer)
to sue them for creating a hostile workplace. Maybe
I'd win the lottery, & retire with a huge award, eh.

Fortunately for Coke, I'll never work again.

 

[exchemist]

Coca-Cola has employees take training on how to 'be less white' to combat racism



I think things like this are a bit of a smokescreen, especially since most liberals and progressives have allowed Corporate America to set the tone and direction of the narrative on this and many other issues. They've outsourced "enlightenment" to a third party vendor, and this is the result. Racism is caused by corporate elites and the ruling class, yet this "training" is basically the elites deflecting blame and attempting to put it back on the lower classes.

Let's wait for a more neutral source before we fly off the handle.

The Washington Examiner seems to have a record of rightwing bias. This story may not be how they are portraying it.

 

[Revoltingest]

Let's wait for a more neutral source before we fly off the handle.

The Washington Examiner seems to have a record of rightwing bias. This story may not be how they are portraying it.

Do you think any source with a leftwing bias would cover it?

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Do you think any source with a leftwing bias would cover it?

No, maybe not. But I would trust a centrist bias more than a left or right.

 

[Stevicus]

Let's wait for a more neutral source before we fly off the handle.

The Washington Examiner seems to have a record of rightwing bias. This story may not be how they are portraying it.

The training course is real and available on Linked-In, and Coca-Cola acknowledged that it was part of their training curriculum.

Coca Cola training teaches employees 'try to be less white' (lawenforcementtoday.com)

Understanding what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist - Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

 

[Revoltingest]

No, maybe not. But I would trust a centrist bias more than a left or right.

I'd like to see more sources that I recognized.
But a search turned up only unfamiliar ones.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

I'd like to see more sources that I recognized.
But a search turned up only unfamiliar ones.

Have you checked if your sources are biased? I use in part left, right and center biased sources.

 

[Sunstone]

This is what every large corporate human relations department does with its time when it's not too busy figuring out new ways to weed out job applicants based on whether their resumes can be reliably interpreted to mean they're 'not our kind of drinking buddy'. They typically team up with in-house marketing and PR.

Seriously, these 'sensitivity trainings' are just the way every large American corporation virtue signals they're better people than the other better people in the world. Much better, in fact, because they just threw racism once again into the prominent pile of sensitivity training they give each and every one of their employees at least two or three times a year, in most cases.

There have been follow up studies usually done around six months later by independent researchers that have failed to ever find even one of these trainings changed anything in how people behaved.

But giving these sessions is a rich little industry because they're so useful now and then in documenting the corporation's noble purpose, high ethical values, and all that other PR crap that flies out the window when the topic of shareholder profits comes up in the executive meetings.

Everyone does it, and I'm guessing it's not just here in America.

If you really get so upset about this sort of thing that you think its a shame and something should be done about it on the order of a hill to die on, then try to remember to check out abstinence-only sex education in American high schools.

Same thing, mildly better results. Best not tell your 17 year old daughter she can go on a date without bringing along some condoms, though. That so often just doesn't work out for the better, even with both teens ramped up and supercharged to hold out against nature until marriage.


There is no getting around it, folks, if you do not understand fundamental human nature well enough to reliably see it when it's up close and personal, then you are a lost lamb in this world today. And usually a lamb someone is going to sooner or later figure out how sacrifice on the alter of their profits.

Just thank your daughter if she didn't go big belly at 17, despite her superior training that cost her school several thousand dollars. That was all to her credit, not to her school's several thousand dollars.

Welcome to PR 236: Introduction to Virtue Signaling for Professionals.

 

[Secret Chief]

Coca cola, the world's biggest plastics polluter (3 million tonnes per year) could also address some other issues.

Criticism of Coca-Cola - Wikipedia

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

It is difficult to deny that white supremacy is a profound factor in American social and business life. To some degree this seems to be true in all white majority countries.
However most are far further along the path of equality, and acceptance of social mixing.

America still has a large living generation of people who were brought up in a world of segregation where's black people had few rights. It will take several more generations to clear the stench of such bias.

The USA seems to be unique in having had a bitter civil war based mainly on recognising black rights. This still colours many people's prejudices.

 

[Stevicus]

Coca cola, the world's biggest plastics polluter (3 million tonnes per year) could also address some other issues.

Criticism of Coca-Cola - Wikipedia

Yet their commercials seem to suggest that all they want to do is make people happy.

 

[Revoltingest]

Have you checked if your sources are biased? I use in part left, right and center biased sources.

Yes.
I do the same.

 

[WalterTrull]

"go big belly" love it.

 

[tytlyf]

The conservative cancel culture (CCC) is in full-swing!

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Ugh...

I did the typical political journey of being more idealistic in my youth, and more pragmatic in my older years.

Both older and younger me agree this sort of crap is vomit-inducing.

 

[exchemist]

The training course is real and available on Linked-In, and Coca-Cola acknowledged that it was part of their training curriculum.

Coca Cola training teaches employees 'try to be less white' (lawenforcementtoday.com)

Understanding what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist - Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

Law Enforcement Today is another far right outlet: Law Enforcement Today - Media Bias Fact Check

They have edited out of the quote the key parts. I have found the original company statement and highlighted in red what they took out

Here is Coca Cola's official statement, denying that the material shown is part of their training material:

"The video and images attributed to a Coca-Cola training program are not part of the company’s learning curriculum.

Our Better Together global training is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to the LinkedIn Learning platform on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion. The video in question was accessible on the LinkedIn Learning platform but was not part of the company’s curriculum. We will continue to listen to our employees and refine our learning programs as appropriate.

From: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training | Company Statement


So you have been circulating lies.

Congratulations!

 

[exchemist]

Ugh...

I did the typical political journey of being more idealistic in my youth, and more pragmatic in my older years.

Both older and younger me agree this sort of crap is vomit-inducing.

Except on this occasion is it right wing lies, put out to keep the "culture war" going...... and get in a tiny bit of dogwhistle racism into the bargain.......

(Russia Today reported this story with great enthusiasm, I see.)

 

[Stevicus]

Law Enforcement Today is another far right outlet: Law Enforcement Today - Media Bias Fact Check

They have edited out of the quote the key parts. I have found the original company statement and highlighted in red what they took out

Here is Coca Cola's official statement, denying that the material shown is part of their training material:

"The video and images attributed to a Coca-Cola training program are not part of the company’s learning curriculum.

Our Better Together global training is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to the LinkedIn Learning platform on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion. The video in question was accessible on the LinkedIn Learning platform but was not part of the company’s curriculum. We will continue to listen to our employees and refine our learning programs as appropriate.

From: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training | Company Statement


So you have been circulating lies.

Congratulations!

Okay, so maybe Coca-Cola is off the hook then. Corporate America is saved.