Touchy feely fascii... The Authoritarian Roots of Corporate Diversity Training: Jane Elliott's Captive Eyes and Minds
from Docuticker by Shirl Kennedy http://www.docuticker.com/?p=14699 The Authoritarian Roots of Corporate Diversity Training: Jane Elliott's Captive Eyes and Minds (PDF; 1.04 MB) http://www.nlpc.org/pdfs/DiversityTraining.pdf Source: National Legal and Policy Center From press release (PR Newswire): http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-09-2007/0004621936&EDATE= National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has released a Special Report titled "The Authoritarian Roots of Corporate Diversity Training: Jane Elliott's Captive Eyes and Minds." The report compares "diversity training" to thought control. "Diversity training" is a term that describes a brief, but intensive program of lectures, presentation of written and audio-visual materials, and perhaps most ominously, participation in role-playing exercises, all of which are intended to heighten employee awareness of potential sources of racial and ethnic conflict. The Report argues that diversity training is counterproductive and instead results in weakened company morale and increased racial resentment. … The Report is critical of current and recent CEOs, like PepsiCo's Steve Reinemund and Chrysler's Tom LaSorda, who have aggressively promoted what they call diversity. The key to challenging the current regime, Horowitz argues, is leadership by principled CEOs. He points to Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers, who has brought a truly diverse workforce to his company while standing up to shakedown attempts by Jesse Jackson and other racial hustlers. The Report details the history of diversity training, especially sadistic role-playing exercises begun nearly 40 years ago by a white third-grade schoolteacher in rural Iowa named Jane Elliott. Today, Elliott is an institution. She's personally led role-playing exercises at General Electric, ExxonMobil, AT&T, IBM and many other companies. In the process, she's spawned an entire industry, in the U.S. and elsewhere. <...>
