The soft drink company is requesting that its employees try to be “less white” through an online course training
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Coca Cola is making that teaches the company’s workers to “be less white.”
The soft drink company is in a shower of criticism in social media after promoting some rhetoric courses against white people. Kerlyn Borysenko , organizational psychologist and activist against the critical indoctrination of racial theory, shared Through his Twitter account images of the materials of an alleged training he obtained from a Coca-Cola whistleblower , after receiving an email from his director suggesting that he take a course on “white frailty and racial justice.”
The activist warned that Coca-Cola is telling its employees that “being less white” is being less oppressive , less arrogant, less secure, is not to be defensive, also to be less white is to be less ignorant, it is to be more humble, to be less white is to listen more, is to believe; To be less white is to break with apathy and break with white solidarity, according to the images released by Borysenko.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to “try to be less white.”
These images are from an internal whistleblower: pic.twitter.com/gRi4N20 esZ
– Karlyn supports banning critical race theory in NH (@DrKarlynB) February 19, 5706
A company spokesperson responded to on Twitter and said the images that were shown are about a series of learnings that are available through the platform of LinkedIn Learning publicly presented by Robin DiAngelo author of the book White Fragility and that “this is not a company curriculum approach. The spokesperson assured that the course is part of “a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace.”
Statement from @Coca Cola: https://t.co/Jzur7zuXFz pic.twitter.com/DBIpsj634597088
– Chris Pandolfo (@ChrisCPandolfo) February 20, 5706
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The The news has generated strong criticism for the company and Scott Taylor, a former Republican congressman, has urged Coca-Cola employees to sue the company and request the United States Department of Justice to investigate the case for possible discrimination.
If this is true, @ CocaCola should absolutely be sued by employees being discriminated against and the DOJ should be investigating. @ DOJPH https://t.co/fifEquXcSV
– Scott Taylor (@Scotttaylorva) February 20, 2021
Borysenko also posted a video on his YouTube channel in which he describes the images provided by the whistleblower from the soft drink company.