Antiracism Comes to the Heartland | City Journal
The diversity trainers then narrowed the focus to race, distributing another handout that outlines the concepts of overt white supremacy and covert white supremacy. The document claims that lynching, hate crimes, KKK, neo-Nazis, [and] burning crosses are socially unacceptable forms of white supremacy, while education funding from property tax, colorblindness, calling the police on black people, BIPOC as Halloween costumes, not believing experiences of BIPOC, tone policing, [and] white silence are socially acceptable forms of white supremacy.
This is a dangerous conflation. The trainers are attempting to extend the stigma of true social evils slavery, lynching, Nazism to any deviation from progressive political preferences, from property taxes to criminal justice to Halloween costumes. According to one teacher who attended the training, the handout originally listed MAGA as a form of covert white supremacy, but it was removed after public outcry. The principle, however, has remained: diversity trainers use the emotional overload of historical evils to justify the imposition of current dogma.