A white former Seattle city employee filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over the city’s racially discriminatory treatment of employees and its mandatory cultural sensitivity programs that he claims constitute racial indoctrination aimed against white people.
Cultural sensitivity training sessions are controversial. They often rely on radical, unproven academic theories—such as the Marxist-derived critical race theory—that assume that the United States is inherently racist and that white Americans are, by their nature, racist. The backlash against such training in both government and corporate settings has been growing in recent years.
