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Goodwill Industries is purportedly pressuring its stores to prefer critical race theory-manner training as part of the organization's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative.

Co-ordinate to former Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) Retail Operations Manager Timothy O'Malley, his region beginning began discussions on how the company was going to be "dissimilar" following the 2020 presidential election.

"They stated that it was gonna be unlike and nosotros were gonna make it about our community and our places," he said. "That but turned out not to be true."

O'Malley, who was employed with Goodwill for more 10 years, says that Goodwill of SWPA began holding "implicit bias grooming" for shop managers in early on 2021, which included a required "three to four hour" session led by a "racial disinterestedness trainer" in February.

"They started pushing us to recruit employees to be part of information technology," he said. Implicit bias training is a common component of critical race theory and has been proven to be scientifically inaccurate to the point that some of the researchers who developed implicit bias tests have now repudiated them as wildly inaccurate and unreliable.

O'Malley too says he attended a "safe space meeting meant for asking questions" that aforementioned month, in which he raised "concerns" about the company's woke policies that stemmed from Goodwill International's recently fostered DEI initiative.

"I think they just assumed that I'd be on board with this because I foster children of all races and sexualities," he said. "Merely I started request questions about equality of outcome and equality of opportunity and I could tell that they weren't too thrilled with me about that."

"You lot were supposed to be able to offer your ideas, and and so I suggested Thomas Sowell as an author to have some diversity of idea, and they told me that that's not really what the DEI committee is almost," he added.

Post-obit the committee's pivot to discussions virtually "DEI language" and plans on how to "achieve equity," O'Malley says he began request questions regarding disciplinary outcomes.

"I said, then what you're basically telling me is a white person and a black person can practise the same thing, simply a black person might be able to stay and a white person would get fired," he said, while besides claiming that Regional Manager of Goodwill SWPA and N Central West Virginia Jessica McConnell told him, "That's the indicate."

McConnell did not return The Federalist's request for annotate. The below screenshot shows Goodwill pledging to "only create merchandise" that represents members of preferred races.

Following months of numerous objections to the region'southward leadership and an effort to obtain a religious exemption from the visitor's DEI push, O'Malley says he was terminated without crusade in September 2021. O'Malley provided The Federalist a copy of his termination letter of the alphabet from Goodwill human being resources.

"This was something I knew I wasn't gonna win any friends by standing up for, just I just really experience that this is overreach by an employer trying to tell me how to experience," he said. "I also really think it's a betrayal of the donors' trust."

When pressed for details about his dismissal, Goodwill of SWPA's vice president of marketing and development David Tobiczyk told The Federalist that the company "does not annotate on specific personnel matters."

The DEI Push button Is Coming From The Pinnacle Down

The implementation of DEI appears not to be limited to Goodwill of SWPA. According to O'Malley, the visitor'due south national arm, Goodwill Industries International (GII), has been "pushing the regions" to adopt DEI policies.

In June 2021, Goodwill International appointed Dr. Samantha-Rae Dickenson as its new director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to "pb the development and promotion of DEI plans and implement workplace and initiatives and best practices" and "support the 156 local Goodwill nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada by developing and curating DEI resource and strategies."

"Goodwill'southward unabridged mission and history has been to advance opportunities for people of all backgrounds in the workplace. Based on the rapidly changing nature of work, our delivery to DEI will entail ensuring that all people can benefit in the prosperity of our country by beingness equipped to compete for emerging opportunities in the workplace," said GII CEO Steven C. Preston in a statement. "We are grateful to have Dr. Dickenson's expertise every bit we continue our piece of work to expand equitable opportunities for people in communities beyond our country."

Dickenson's then-called "expertise," however, descends from her past embrace of ideologies such as critical race theory. Writing in a 2018 dissertation at the Academy of New England, Dickenson used "Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality Theory, and Black Feminist Theory every bit a theoretical framework to illustrate the occurrence of racial microaggressions that Blackness women face in the government sector."

"According to the results of this study, societal standards can influence the beliefs of Black women in a work setting and increase the occurrence of racial microaggressions which negatively affect their emotional views virtually themselves and their jobs, regardless of her level of didactics, age, socioeconomic status, type of job," she wrote. "Results also illustrated that educating employees by holding all employees accountable for inappropriate actions and mentorship are effective methods that can help to reduce the occurrence of racial microaggressions in the workplace."

In addition to hiring Dickenson and establishing a National DEI Task Force, Goodwill International has likewise taken steps to go more "intentional advocates for modify" following the death of George Floyd. In May 2021, CEO Steven Preston confirmed that he signed the "CEO Activity Pledge" in order to "provide a more than supportive and inclusive workplace."

Co-ordinate to the pledge, CEO's commit to implementing and expanding "unconscious bias training," which aims to assistance "employees recognize and minimize their bullheaded spots" and to "facilitate more open up and honest conversations." CEO Action had previously hosted an result headlined by author of "White Fragility" Robin DiAngelo, who provided "insights on how to be #antiracist."

When you're willing to put in the piece of work to exist an antiracist leader and company, yous can transform your organization and lodge. Robin DiAngelo shared valuable insights on how to be #antiracist at the #CEOAction Closed-Door Session yesterday. pic.twitter.com/6DizkgLTzn

— CEOAction (@CEOAction) November 20, 2020

Furthermore, Goodwill International has also released a iii-office serial on "microaggressions" that focuses on how employees can place and address such actions in the workplace.

"Education is key to understanding how systemic bigotry and racism impacts each of us, pervades our daily lives, and negatively impacts the lives and futures of people of color," the get-go post reads. "As nosotros all learn ways to get anti-racist, information technology's important to learn nigh microaggressions and how to address them in the workplace."

"People who are on the receiving end of microaggressions or bias may be defendant of being overly sensitive, not taking a joke or not accepting a statement intended as a compliment. Receiving a microaggression tin can be a stressful and negative emotional experience that contributes to a nonproductive and toxic working environs," it added.

Goodwill Industries International did not return The Federalist'due south multiple requests for annotate most O'Malley'southward allegations and the above screenshots.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a graduate of the Academy of Mary Washington. He likewise serves as a country content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood