{"id":159838,"date":"2021-02-22T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=159838"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:44:07","slug":"lost-their-marbles-backlash-hits-coca-cola-after-accusations-of-anti-white-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lost-their-marbles-backlash-hits-coca-cola-after-accusations-of-anti-white-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost Their Marbles\u2019: Backlash Hits Coca-Cola After Accusations Of Anti-White Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Flost-their-marbles-backlash-hits-coca-cola-after-accusations-of-anti-white-agenda%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=159838&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228962928.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Coca-Cola is facing backlash after being accused of fostering an anti-white agenda in their online \u201canti-racism\u201d training for employees, with some training materials that instruct participants to \u201ctry to be less white.\u201d After blowback, the company has issued a statement denying that the materials are part of its learning curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a psychologist who describes herself on Twitter as a \u201cFormer Democrat. Unwoke activist. Accidental commentator,\u201d posted screenshots from an alleged whistleblower at Coca-Cola:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to &#8220;try to be less white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These images are from an internal whistleblower: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gRi4N20esZ\">pic.twitter.com\/gRi4N20esZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karlyn supports banning critical race theory in NH (@DrKarlynB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrKarlynB\/status\/1362774562769879044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I walk through the images in this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tBwQ0FGV2N\">https:\/\/t.co\/tBwQ0FGV2N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karlyn supports banning critical race theory in NH (@DrKarlynB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrKarlynB\/status\/1362806176702988296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For people asking to verify this, the course is publicly available on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LinkedIn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LinkedIn<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T2mmXTACeJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/T2mmXTACeJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see for yourself. The Coca-Cola icon is in the top right hand corner on some of the images because they&#8217;re using LinkedIn content for their internal platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karlyn supports banning critical race theory in NH (@DrKarlynB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrKarlynB\/status\/1362848041779232771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,\u201d read one slide, as reported by Newsweek. \u201cResearch shows that by age 3 to 4, children understand that it is better to be white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following backlash for the \u201cbe less white\u201d materials, Coca-Cola published a statement Friday saying the materials are \u201cnot a focus of our company\u2019s curriculum\u201d and committing to \u201ccontinue to refine\u201d its learning curriculum:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The video circulating on social media is from a publicly available LinkedIn Learning Series and is not a focus of our company\u2019s curriculum. Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to LinkedIn Learning on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion. We will continue to refine this curriculum.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CocaCola?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CocaCola<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jzur7zuXFz\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jzur7zuXFz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBIpsj5706\">pic.twitter.com\/DBIpsj5706<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Pandolfo (@ChrisCPandolfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCPandolfo\/status\/1362969629543522307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Roughly 24 hours later Coca-Cola released a statement that was marginally different:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The video and images attributed to a Coca-Cola training program are not part of the company\u2019s learning curriculum. Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace. It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to LinkedIn Learning on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The full statement from a Coca-Cola spokesperson: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kUMCi0SFi\">pic.twitter.com\/1kUMCi0SFi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterjhasson\/status\/1363304303331475458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blowback to this initial report came swiftly.\u00a0Nigel Farage, the leader of Great Britain\u2019s Brexit party, stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>This week we learned that Coca-Cola, that venerated U.S. institution \u2014 I know Coca-Cola a little bit, their headquarters in Atlanta, and in 2017, I went to their HQ as a guest of theirs, I gave a presentation to some of their managers, really talking about global trends in politics and I was very struck what a nice working environment it seemed, and of course what a hugely successful company it\u2019s been over all these decades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Coca-Cola, of all people, have now clearly lost their marbles, because they\u2019re now putting their staff through compulsory training: how to be less white. You think I\u2019m making this up? Have a look at this on the screen, saying, \u201cSo, to be less white means you\u2019ll be less arrogant, less ignorant\u201d\u2014I mean, the list goes on: \u201ctry to be less white.\u201d And the inference here is clear, isn\u2019t it? That white is bad; white means supremacist; white means you look down your noses at everybody else; white means you are guilty!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coca-Cola outrage.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mglYtZSRa8g?start=251&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former GOP Texas congressional candidate Joshua Foxworth tweeted, \u201cIf your congressman does nothing when Coca-Cola tells it\u2019s employees to \u2018Try to be less White\u2019 but would rush to any available mic if this was said about any other race, can it truly be said that they represent every American in their district, or just the ones the media allows.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If your congressman does nothing when Coca-Cola tells it&#8217;s employees to &#8220;Try to be less White&#8221; but would rush to any available mic if this was said about any other race, can it truly be said that they represent every American in their district, or just the ones the media allows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FoxworthForCongress (@FoxworthFor14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxworthFor14\/status\/1363623469305499650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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