Would-be Tory MP’s are being offered unconscious bias training where they are told that white resentment is a “significant problem” for ethnic minorities.
White resentment is defined as “when white employees suggest equality and diversity training is no longer required, as it provides ethnic minority employees with unfair advantages”.
According to The Telegraph:
Despite efforts by ministers to ban “woke” diversity courses for civil servants, similar workshops are being offered to Tory candidates via the Party’s online training platform.
Tory candidates are offered unconscious bias training, a practice the Government promised to “phase out” across Whitehall in 2020.
The Conservative Party’s training platform describes unconscious bias as being when you “discriminate against one group, or person, without being aware of your actions”.
The lessons refer to microaggressions, such as asking a black colleague “why does your hair not look like ours?” and “Are you able to sit out in the sun as long without any sun cream?”.
Another example of unconscious bias cited is the mispronunciation of colleagues’ names.
One slide offers a case study: “I’d prefer for you not to shorten my name. It means God’s gift and my parents named it to me for a very specific reason. I’ve actually done you a favour and I’ve already shortened it. It’s Onyinyewchuckwu, can you please call me Onyinye?”.
Candidates are also given a list of terminologies and their definitions to study, including gender fluid, non-binary, affirmed gender, pan-gender and poly gender.
Ed Barker, a member of the Party’s candidates list and the chief executive of Conservative Way Forward, said: “I don’t want the state, or the Party I love, breathing down my neck telling me how to think.”
“I hope this can be stopped immediately, otherwise we’ll have a whole new generation of Conservative candidates who think this is normal.”
“Before Christmas, we published a report which found that £7bn of taxpayers’ money is being wasted on politically motivated campaigns that are dividing us and making us all poorer, including millions on unconscious bias training.”
