americanthinker | Two
weeks ago, we learned that Sandia National Laboratories, one of only
three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development
laboratories in the United States, was mandating that its white, male
executives attend anti-white training sessions. Since then, a
whistleblower has emerged, describing in detail the anti-white “critical
race theory” that Sandia's management is foisting on employees at all
levels, even though this racial attacks in the material manifestly
violate federal law.
In mid-August, Christopher Rufo published a Twitter thread about a blatantly anti-white seminar at Sandia. To understand how wrong that seminar was, you need to know that Sandia, as a taxpayer-funded contractor
for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security
Administration, must comply with federal anti-discrimination
regulations. Thus, Executive Order 11246 Subpart B, sec. 202 states in relevant part:
The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Last I looked, white employees ticked off two boxes in the protected classes above: race and color.
Casey
Peterson, an electrical engineer, has been unhappy about the direction
that Sandia is taking. The seminar described in Rufo’s Twitter thread –
as well as the fact that it was required only for white men – struck him
as discriminatory. Moreover, Peterson believes that critical race
theory is a dangerous form of anti-white discrimination premised up
false facts and crackpot theories.
Peterson
did something audacious in today’s environment: He pushed back hard,
creating a lengthy, detailed, factually-supported video challenging the
critical race theory that forms the basis of Sandia’s undoubtedly
illegally and contractually-violative race-based discrimination.
Christopher Rufo picks up the story:
