Home Depot’s ‘Unpacking Privilege’ Worksheet Shames Whites, Males and Christian Employees

Just when you thought it can’t get worse it does. It seems that a worksheet titled “Unpacking Privilege” was distributed at Home Depot stores in Canada.

The Unpacking Privilege worksheet describes two forms of privilege:

1. Social Privilege: Special, unearned advantage or entitlement, used to one’s own benefit or to the detriment of others. These groups can be advantages based on social class, age, disability, ethnic or racial category, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
2. White Privilege: Societal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of colour under the same social, political and economic circumstances.

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On the Unpacking Privilege worksheet under the sub-heading “What privilege looks like” are these words:

If you’re confident the police exist to protect you, you have white privilege.

If while growing up, college was an expectation of you, not a dream, you have class privilege.

If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian privilege.

Why is it that Muslims, Hindis, Jews who get the day off aren’t mentioned? Hum.

Home Depot corporate immediately disavowed the flyer saying it “was not authorized.” Hum #2.

On November 23rd, 2018 Campus Reform Campus Wire reported on Gonzaga University’s “International Day of Tolerance” event stating:

Students and staff at the Washington State school started the event by linking arms in the student center, which Gonzaga student body president Athena Sok said at the event was a “show of a united stand for social justice.”

Gonzaga’s Center for Global Engagement, Center for Community Engagement, Unity Multicultural Education Center, Institute for Hate Studies, Office of Mission and Ministry, and Student Body Association jointly sponsored the event.

At the event, students were informed that “to fight intolerance, individuals should become aware of their behavior and each one of us should ask: am I a tolerant person? Do I stereotype people? Do I reject those who are different from me? Do I blame my problems on ‘them?’” according to a Gonzaga news release.

Gonzaga defines “intolerance in a society” as “the sum total of the intolerance of its individual members. Bigotry, stereotyping, stigmatizing, insults, and racial jokes are examples of individual expressions of intolerance.”

The website description of the event promotes nonviolent action as a way for people to align themselves with “victims of intolerance and discredit hateful propaganda, violence, and hatred.”

The goal of the event was, “in alignment with the University’s mission, to foster a mature commitment to the dignity of the human person and social justice through awareness and education,” Gonzaga spokeswoman Mary Joan Hahn told Campus Reform.

Tolerance from Gonzaga University to Home Depot in Canada. Wow how far tolerance has come, NOT!

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