Toronto’s Humber College is encouraging its Caucasian employees to join a “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) group designed to help them “unlearn” and “dismantle” their “whiteness.”
The “Unlearning Circle” group, which was founded in 2021, also seeks to help staff “build an anti-racist practice.” It’s open to any employee who “identifies” as white and/or as “having white skin privilege.”
Screenshots of the group’s details were posted to X (formerly Twitter) by Quilette journalist Jonathan Kay. True North was able to verify that Humber does run such an initiative.
The college notes that “in early December 2021, Humber launched a group for employees who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (family, work, educational, religious, etc.).”
Those who join the “Unlearning Circle” are asked to acknowledge that “we live in a white supremist culture that affects us all,” that “we cannot dismantle racism in a system that exploits people for private profit,” and that “dismantling racism, sexism, heterosexism, and unlearning oppressive attitudes will and does take a lifetime.”
The group’s description also notes that “the practice of talking about and understanding how racism operates is a practice that will and does reproduce racism; we are sitting in the tension of that reality in every moment and are continually learning how to rely on our love and regard for each other (whether present or desired), our resilience, our humility, and our sense of humor.”
Like other Canadian post-secondary institutions, Humber College has embraced woke race-based practices.
On its website, Humber says they are “leaders in providing a learning, working and living environment that recognizes and values equity, diversity and inclusion in all its programs and services.”
Other DEI initiatives from Humber College have included racially segregated orientation activities for black students.
Humber College did not respond to a request for comment.
