The Woke-Industrial Complex

[tonyz]

Fascinating.

You too can experience the re-education camp right here in this article...and for free. This is what is going on at a significant defense contractor ?

Imagine 4 years at Brown or Berkeley !

“Deconstruct” and “atone” !

The Woke-Industrial Complex

Lockheed, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sends key executives on a mission to deconstruct their “white male privilege.”

Christopher F. Rufo
May 26, 2021
City Journal
The Social Order

Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity-training program aimed at deconstructing their “white male culture” and encouraging them to atone for their “white male privilege,” according to documents I have obtained.

The program, hosted on Zoom for a cohort of 13 Lockheed employees, was led by the diversity-consulting firm White Men As Full Diversity Partners, which specializes in helping white males “awaken together.” The Lockheed employees, all senior leaders in the company, included Aaron Huckaby, director of global supply chain operations; retired Air Force lieutenant colonel David Starr, director of the Hercules C-130 military transport program; retired Air Force lieutenant general Bruce Litchfield, vice president of sustainment operations; and Glenn Woods, vice president of production for the Air Force’s $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program. (Lockheed Martin did not return request for comment.)

At the beginning of the program, the diversity trainers led a “free association” exercise, asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the term “white men.” The trainers wrote down “old,” “racist,” “privileged,” “anti-women,” “angry,” “Aryan Nation,” “KKK,” “Founding fathers,” “guns,” “guilty,” and “can’t jump.” According to the participants, these perceptions have led to “assumptions about white men and diversity,” with many employees believing that white men “don’t care about diversity,” “have a classical perspective on history and colonialism,” and “don’t want to give away our power.”

The White Men As Full Diversity Partners team—Jim Morris, Mark Havens, and Michael Welp—framed the purpose of the training session as providing a benefit for white men who embrace the diversity and inclusion philosophy. In response to a prompt about “what’s in it for white men,” the participants listed benefits such as: “I won’t get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner,” “[I will] improve the brand, image, reputation of white men,” and “I [will] have less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem.”

In a set of related resources, White Men As Full Diversity Partners lays out its theory of privilege. The firm’s founders, Welp and Bill Proudman, have argued that white males must “work hard to understand” their “white privilege,” “male privilege,” and “heterosexual privilege,” which affords them unearned benefits. The firm’s training programs are designed to assist white men in discovering the “roots of white male culture.” That culture, according to Welp and Proudman, consists of traits—such as “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” “operating from principles,” and “striving towards success”—which are superficially positive but are “devastating” to women and minorities.

At the Lockheed training, following the baseline exercises, the trainers proceeded with the “hearts and minds” portion of the session: deconstructing employees’ “white male privilege” through a series of “privilege statements,” then working to rebuild their identities as “agent[s] of change.” The trainers provided the participants with a list of 156 “white privilege statements,” “male privilege statements,” and “heterosexual privilege statements” to read and discuss, including:

“My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races”; “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race”; “My earning potential is 15-33% higher than a woman’s”; “My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender”; “I am not asked to think about why I am straight”; “I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.”

Finally, in order to cement the idea that white male culture is “devastating” to racial minorities and women, the trainers had the Lockheed employees read a series of “I’m tired” statements from fictitious racial minorities and women. The statements included: “I’m tired of being Black”; “I’m tired of you making more money than me”; “I’m tired of people disparaging our campaigns (like Black Lives Matter)”; “I’m tired of Black boys/girls being murdered”; “I’m tired of people thinking they’re smarter and more qualified than me”; “I’m tired of hearing about how we need a wall at the southern borders but not on the northern borders”; “I’m tired of the desire or comment to remove race—the concept that we should be ‘colorblind.’”
This is not the first time White Men As Full Diversity Partners has been involved in a controversial training program. Last year, I reported on the company’s white male training program for employees at the Sandia National Laboratories, which began a series of reports leading to President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, banning racial stereotyping, scapegoating, and discrimination in federal diversity programs. The Trump ban, however, was temporary; President Biden rescinded the order on his first day in office.

Today, it’s back to business as usual. Consultants such as White Men As Full Diversity Partners peddle fashionable racial theories and attach themselves to bloated government contractors such as Lockheed Martin. Presidents change, but for now the woke-industrial complex has no term limit.

https://www.city-journal.org/lockhee...it_nosession=1

[Sohei]

Nice! Creating cowards and effeminate males now who are being brainwashed into feeling sorry for being “men!” We are going down the toilet faster than I wanted to. Sad day for America.

[tonyz]

If, for a moment, you look at this as a PSYOP conducted to degrade an adversary...mix in a virus...naaaahhhh....we are MUCH too sophisticated to fall for that...

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Sohei

Nice! Creating cowards and effeminate males now who are being brainwashed into feeling sorry for being “men!” We are going down the toilet faster than I wanted to. Sad day for America.

Going down toilet and without much of a fight. Very sad, interesting to see and perplexing all at the same time.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by tonyz

If, for a moment, you look at this as a PSYOP conducted to degrade an adversary...mix in a virus...naaaahhhh....we are MUCH too sophisticated to fall for that...

In readings today I see a couple different articles from a couple pretty savvy Democrats - savvy in the sense that they've been a pretty consistent weather vane for the commies. James Scarville and one of their pollsters have both written articles taking the Dem machine to task regarding what is going to backfire on them. The Stalinistas are at risk of losing a monstrous chunk of their Hispanic vote, and their mainstream base is completely put off by the pandering to the loud-but-minority "wokeness." The pollster also mentioned one thing about the conservative (little 'c') base, many of whom may follow Trump or a Trump-approved candidate:

They really dislike being polled.

So there is always an undercurrent of doubt that makes them nervous as hell (this is a perk). So while some painted-red Conservatives of the Paul Ryan stripe are going to "vote at it harder" the Stalinistas are thoroughly motivated to cheat at it harder because they don't know the size of the shark under the water.

[Old Dog New Trick]

So let me get this straight. A dude named Bill PROUDMAN, is coming into a military equipment manufacturer to tell a bunch of former tactical aircraft pilots, and some other “white” guys that trained to or killed enemy combatants on the battlefield how to be less manly?

I think we (and certainly the crew in question) can all be thankful that Tammy Duckworth had relented control of her doomed Blackhawk helicopter to her co-pilot moments before being hit by gunfire and an RPG. Apparently it took all his might and strength to land the badly damaged helicopter when all the hydraulics and one engine had been damaged in the process. (And we’re to believe she is a hero and equal for being carried away by her surviving crew chief.) (P.S. it’s only because it was recently brought to my attention her story of that fateful day and how it sounds like she was probably more of a hindrance than an asset throughout the entire crash sequence…according to her they would have all died if she didn’t regain control of her helicopter. It’s a good thing she was most likely unconscious and had no legs to interfere with her co-pilots control of the aircraft.)

I don’t know why I said that here, I’m suffering from male privilege and probably need an enema.

[tonyz]

...techniques used to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, morale and especially the will to defend a nation.

The Yuri Bezmenov video has been posted before - but it seems to fit well here - and it may be time for another listen.

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America
Published on Feb 1, 2013

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

[tonyz]

Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick

So let me get this straight. A dude named Bill PROUDMAN, is coming into a military equipment manufacturer to tell a bunch of former tactical aircraft pilots, and some other “white” guys that trained to or killed enemy combatants on the battlefield how to be less manly?

...and evidently less “can do” less “hard work” and less “striving for success.”

We just can’t have those types of folks developing our military equipment.

[7624U]

Originally Posted by Sohei

We are going down the toilet faster than I wanted to.

Toilet paper is oppressive here is my list of connotations:

"absorbs all moisture"
"abrasive"
"single use"
"bulky"
"clogs"
"first to sell out"
"environmentally unfriendly"
"runs low at bad times"
"white"
"see quote above"

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick

I don’t know why I said that here, I’m suffering from male privilege and probably need an enema.

You can have all the privilege you want; that's how privilege works, see?
As to Rx for the latter; have another cup of coffee and some Fig Newtons at night with your reading. Then loop back to enjoying your privilege. The feeling is so... so...
Privileged.

[cbtengr]

What sucks is having lived all the years I have and just now being told I had all this privilege, what a waste.

[Box]

I wish someone had told the shitty row houses that I grew up in on the edge of inner city Baltimore MD about this privilege.

God only knows how comfortable my life would have turned out if I'd have recognized my privilege as a child.


Ignorant brainwashed mother fuckers.

[sg1987]

Originally Posted by Box

I wish someone had told the shitty row houses that I grew up in on the edge of inner city Baltimore MD about this privilege.

God only knows how comfortable my life would have turned out if I'd have recognized my privilege as a child.


Ignorant brainwashed mother fuckers.

I hear you. My family rented a "shotgun shack" in the mill village of a tiny town in middle Georgia. We were poor but I did'nt realize it. I guess my "privilege" was being on equal plane with all those around me..... We were all rich.
Good thing I did'nt have internet and cable TV or I would have seen how the fat cats had it and I would have demanded my share of their pie.

[rsdengler]

This is ridiculous, and totally assine. I wonder if there is "white woman privilege" as well and if we will have diversity training. F that, we are becoming weak as a nation and those that keep saying "white male privilege" have drank the "woke pill" Kool Aid. I hear a lot about "toxic masculinity", that's total BS, I'd rather have a man who is a man then a soy fed, skinny jean he/him/she whatever they are called these days. This is so tiring, so unnecessary and so damaging to this Nation. We cannot stand for this any longer, we are being played and our enemies are frothing at the mouth because of our stupidity and weaknesses. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone....

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by rsdengler

This is ridiculous, and totally assine. I wonder if there is "white woman privilege" as well and if we will have diversity training. F that, we are becoming weak as a nation and those that keep saying "white male privilege" have drank the "woke pill" Kool Aid. I hear a lot about "toxic masculinity", that's total BS, I'd rather have a man who is a man then a soy fed, skinny jean he/him/she whatever they are called these days. This is so tiring, so unnecessary and so damaging to this Nation. We cannot stand for this any longer, we are being played and our enemies are frothing at the mouth because of our stupidity and weaknesses. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone....

Many people have drank the "woke pill" Kool aid. Some yearn for acceptance from a group or culture and will do anything to achieve that acceptance, but some do it for personal benefit and attention. Many of these deep thinkers ignore the potential long term consequences of their actions.

Tomorrow you're homeless, tonight it's a blast mentality.