{"id":1398194,"date":"2022-03-24T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398194"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:00:36","slug":"home-depot-responds-after-worksheet-on-white-privilege-and-racism-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/home-depot-responds-after-worksheet-on-white-privilege-and-racism-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Responds After Worksheet On \u2018White Privilege\u2019 And \u2018Racism\u2019 Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhome-depot-responds-after-worksheet-on-white-privilege-and-racism-goes-viral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/C6AD980E-576A-407F-A0E0-EBC0A3C1CAC5-scaled-e1638048099809.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Home Depot <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/23\/home-depot-ripped-for-shaming-employees-over-white-privilege\/\">released<\/a> a statement Wednesday addressing controversy about a hyper-progressive worksheet on \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201cracism\u201d that recently went viral online.<\/p>\n<p>The company acknowledged that the worksheet is a \u201cresource\u201d in its Canadian division but noted that it\u2019s \u201cnot part of any required programming,\u201d nor was it \u201ccreated or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The literature defined \u201cwhite privilege\u201d as \u201c[s]ocietal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of colour under the same social, political and economic circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial privilege\u201d was defined as \u201c[s]pecial, unearned advantage or entitlement, used to one\u2019s own benefit or to the detriment of others. These groups can be advantaged based on social class, age, disability, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The worksheet also has a \u201ccheck your privilege\u201d segment, where the following choices are available: \u201cwhite,\u201d \u201cmale,\u201d \u201cclass,\u201d \u201cchristian,\u201d \u201ccis-gender,\u201d \u201cable-bodied,\u201d and \u201cheterosexual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClass\u201d privilege, the worksheet said, should be ascribed to anyone who expected as a kid they would one day go to college. \u201cIf\u00a0while growing up, college was an expectation of you, not a dream, you have class privilege,\u201d the worksheet said.<\/p>\n<p>The resource claimed \u201cracism\u201d is \u201cracial prejudice + power,\u201d defining \u201cracial prejudice\u201d as a \u201cset of discriminatory or derogatory attitudes based on assumptions coming from perceptions about race\/skin colour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the portions of the worksheet appeared\u00a0to be copied from a social media campaign against privilege in 2014 at the University of San Francisco,\u201d The Blaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/home-depot-white-privilege-boycott\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we fully support diversity across our company, this material was not created or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department,\u201d Home Depot said in a statement. \u201cThis was a resource in our Canadian division and not part of any required programming.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Home Depot has gone woke <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCy3uMJ4VC\">pic.twitter.com\/iCy3uMJ4VC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1506432641364467719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 2019, billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus angered the Left when he said he\u2019d be donating money to then-President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign, triggering a #BoycottHomeDepot hashtag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a businessman\u2019s common sense approach to most things,\u201d Marcus said of Trump. \u201cNow, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don\u2019t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, who retired as chairman of Home Depot in 2002, said that after he dies he will give between 80-90% of his estimated $5.9 billion fortune to various charitable causes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett\">The Daily Wire<\/a> highlighted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett\">\u2018Boycott Home Depot\u2019 Trending Over Trump Donation; There\u2019s Just A Few\u00a0Problems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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