According to Fox Business
Coca-Cola raised some eyebrows this week for promoting an online training seminar that urged employees to “try to be less white” in order to combat racial discrimination.
Slides from the training seminar shared online this week featured tips on how to tone down whiteness.
The tips to “be less white” included: “be less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive, be more humble, listen, believe, break with apathy,” and “break with white solidarity.”
Another slide tells viewers that in order to confront racism, they must understand “what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist.”
White people in the United States and other western nations, are “socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” another slide reads.
It continued: “Research shows that by age 3 to 4, children understand that it is better to be white.”
The seminar has predictably provide divisive, with some praising the company and others threatening to boycott it.
Attorney and Center for American Liberty founder Harmeet Dhillon, who shared the slides on her Twitter, said the slides seemed “like blatant racial discrimination.”
🚨🚨🚨 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/gRi4N20esZ
— Karlyn Borysenko, the modern day Yuri Bezmenov (@DrKarlynB) February 19, 2021
It noted that the training is publicly available on LinkedIn, and includes a “variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion.