From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Tammy Weitzman – https://www.americaoutloud.news/dei-and-antisemitism-meet-a-lawsuit-with-tammy-weitzman/
What strange times we live in now. We have gone from the era of Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man, brilliantly exploring what it means to be socially or racially invisible to almost every ad on television including a person of color. Segregated army barracks, motels, restaurants, clubs, entertainment venues were socially and politically acceptable even after integration became the law of the land. And as time passed, people realized that they were missing out on a whole side of life by closing the door on meeting new and interesting people. We were organically moving to a blended society where people were looking at one another just as people, judging them by their job or hobbies but not by their race. Now we have segregated college dorms, dining halls, and so-called affinity groups. What happened?
After years and years of progress we have a sick regression into separatism. Instead of “if you are white, you’re all right, if you’re black, stay back,” all white people are inherently evil deep down inside and should flagellate themselves for the sin of being born white; all black people should be forgiven for any anti-social behavior because they can’t help themselves. How racist is that supposedly progressive mindset?
This new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) crusade is yet another elitist movement that does nothing to help the people they movement portends to help. The DEI movement is stripping mainly blacks, but ultimately all people of their dignity. When we lose our individuality, we lose our true selves, our souls. Human nature being what it is, people do not want to be labelled as victims. But propaganda and indoctrination being what it is, anyone can be demoralized into—as the Soviets would say—ideological subversion.
Yes, racism exists. Racists exist. But the DEI cure is worse than the disease. (One of my dream conversations is asking a professed racist in kidney failure on dialysis if he would accept a kidney transplant from a black person.)
Students in as young as kindergarten are being taught to judge others by their race. In reality, most children do not focus on their differences but wonder whether their classmate likes the newest video game. How could someone think that it is acceptable to poison young minds? The same young minds were told in Brown v the Board of Education in 1954 that separate is inherently unequal. Instead of learning the necessary skills to race to the top of the ladder of success, children have the tools to win the victim triathlon. The prize: dependency on government resources. What a waste of government money. This money would be better spent on junior science fair projects or field trips to the museum of science and technology.
Schools at all levels now have institutionally supported affinity groups that are the Newspeak word for segregated groups. The DEI adherents are echoing the rhetoric of the opponents to integrated schools: people of different races learn better in separate environments where they can be their true selves. Some schools have separate times for black and LGBT students to use the swimming pool. How is this diversity and inclusion? It seems like grouping together children with the same interests, like math, science, sewing, music, or sports would be a more enriching program.
It doesn’t stop with the unsuspecting children. Corporations have devoted time and money into DEI trainings. Let’s have a re-education session and tell people they are a racist and tell them how to be an anti-racist. How? Don’t be a racist.
And of course, I wonder about the effect of DEI on medicine. There is no question that there are racial disparities in many aspects of life in the United States, including medical care. It seems that instead of doing the hard work of getting down to the root of the problems, academia has taken the easy way out by declaring that racism is the cause of health care disparities. The solutions start with racism and end with indoctrination into reverse racism.
The DEI focus on the oppressed and oppressors has fostered antisemitism as well. After all, despite the history of Jewish slavery, oppression, and genocide, they are deemed part of the oppressor class. This is a logical outgrowth of the DEI mindset that focuses on differences rather than our shared humanity.
The deafening drumbeat of race, racism, and more race is leaving its mark. The workplace has turned into a minefield. Some wokenistas cannot see that denigrating others does nothing to advance the group they purport to uplift. When reason fails, we have to turn to the law. Sometimes lawsuits are the only way we can get people to wake up.
My guest is a social worker who despite the presumed empathy and compassion of her colleagues was caught in a workplace web of wokeness gone amok and antisemitism.
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Tammy Weitzman is a child of an Israeli mother and Canadian father. After her father’s death from cancer, the family lived in Israel for 3 years before returning to Toronto, Canada. She completed graduate work in social work at Yeshiva University in New York City. She spent 23 years in oncology mental health at large academic hospitals and has presented her work with oncology patients nationally and internationally.
Peter Barwick is the general counsel for the Coalition for Liberty, https://www.coalitionforliberty.com. Coalition For Liberty is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose central mission is to promote the right of all Americans to exercise their freedom of speech, expression and thought; and support the establishment of new classical model apolitical schools, while also supporting efforts to have existing schools move back to this tried-and-true model, which has been proven to obtain superior results for children.
