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 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.
Former city employee Joshua Diemert is suing Seattle under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for damages and in hopes of preventing the city from treating individuals differently because of their race….