Trump Further Guts Govt Anti-Racism Trainings By Extending Ban To Contractors

President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing on the North Portico of the White House on September 7, 2020. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/for the Washington Post via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump increased the scope of his assault against the government’s anti-racism workplace trainings on white privilege on Tuesday night with an executive order banning government contractors from holding the trainings.

In the order, Trump claimed that trainings that discuss the disproportionate amount of power afforded to white men “perpetuates racial stereotypes and division and can use subtle coercive pressure to ensure conformity of viewpoint.”

“Such activities also promote division and inefficiency when carried out by Federal contractors,” the order said.

The contractors thus “will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees,” according to the order.

Trump touted the ban on Twitter on Tuesday.

“Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!” he tweeted.

The order follows Trump’s ban prohibiting federal agencies from conducting workplace sensitivity trainings that explore power structures embedded in the U.S. that favor white men socially and economically. The President and his administration have derided the trainings as “anti-American propaganda.”

Last week, White House budget chief Russell Vought stated that he was directing federal agency leaders to look out for “buzzwords” associated with the trainings.

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  1. How is this even legal? Trump is POTUS, thus the chief executive of the US government, but businesses that have government contractors are private entities.

  2. President Miller is on a roll. (Probably a Kaiser?)

  3. Avatar for zuch zuch says:

    Here come the lawsuits…

  4. The government can and does require many things for them (fair hiring practices, etc.) to qualify to contract with the government. The kicker here is that it doesn’t cost the government a dime for contractors to conduct these programs. This is just a flat-out attempt to foment more racism.

  5. So, shorter Trump Administration: “racism isn’t real, except when you use the word racism, which is racist”. Got it.

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