(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Home Depot is getting hammered for an employee-training pamphlet that warned workers about the dangers of white privilege and check-listed male, Christian, cisgender, able-bodied and heterosexual workers for special concern. The training leaflet, titled “Leading Practices: Unpacking privilege,” included the company’s logo and was posted in an employee lunchroom at a Home Depot in Calgary, Alberta, reported the Daily Mail.
The training guide provides a definition of “White Privilege” as “societal privilege that benefits white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of color under the same social, political and economic circumstances.”
If someone doesn’t see white privilege everywhere, or at least somewhere, it’s because that person suffers from white privilege and is too blind to see it.
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The Home Depot training guide shows employees where to look and how to ferret out privilege.
“If you’re confident that the police exist to protect you, you have white privilege,” one line reads, while another informs that “If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian privilege.”
Another blurb warned that “If you can use public bathrooms without stares, fear or anxiety, you have cisgender privilege.”
“If you don’t have to explain that your spouse is of the same gender, you have heterosexual privilege,” the guide scolded.
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Not to be outdone by a host of privilege, the Home Depot flyer also included woke wisdom on racism, racial prejudice and power.
The manual was roundly criticized and condemned as offensive and wholly misguided.
“Welcome to the commissariat at Home Depot,” tweeted Dr. Jordan Peterson. “How can our capitalist corporations be so blind to their own interests?
“The blowback is beginning when you hit the NY Post,” a tweet responded.
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