The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower | Microaggression video (Fusion Comedy YouTube), J.B. Pritzker (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
By Peter Hasson | The Washington Free Beacon
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s (D.) administration offers a taxpayer-funded training on “microaggressions” and other “exclusionary behaviors” that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck blood from people of color.
The training—which Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights offers to “private-sector, government, and public participants” and which the Washington Free Beacon attended—is meant to “increase knowledge, awareness and prevention of discrimination and harassment issues and offer solutions to employers and employees on how to appropriately respond to situations as they arise.” It defines “microaggressions” as “the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons solely based upon their marginalized group membership.”
The training divides such “microaggressions” into two categories: those that are “race-based” and those that go “beyond race.” The former category includes “color blindness”—which the training says “denies a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience.” It also includes the “assumption of criminal status”—for example, a “store owner [who] follows a customer of color around the store”—and “denial of individual racism,” including statements like “My best friend is Black.” The latter category includes “micro-insults,” like calling a person of color “articulate,” as well as “micro-invalidation,” which includes “buildings named only after white men.”
Those examples are presented in a video shown in the training called “How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites.” The beginning of the video depicts a blonde white woman who calls a black woman “well-spoken” while the two wait at a bus stop. The white woman transforms into a mosquito that bites the black woman and begins sucking her blood. Similar scenes play out as the microaggressing mosquitoes say things like “Your English is so good” and “We have to keep the Redskins name.” Toward the end of the video, a narrator says that experiencing “microaggressions” can make you “want to go ballistic on those mosquitoes” as a black woman torches the pests with a flamethrower. Police officers, meanwhile, are presented as “mosquitoes” that “carry strains that can even kill you.”
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