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Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kathryn Smerling on the controversy over the USDA’s cultural sensitivity training.
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While new video being released from -- 2011.
Taxpayer funded cultural sensitivity training program -- -- call at the Department of Agriculture.
This time showing a diversity awareness trainer.
Asking employees to chance about discrimination.
And suggesting the United States spoke -- what used to be Mexico.
I wanted to say.
Sick if we work for federal agencies say that if you're.
We have discriminated in the past.
Mexicans came to this country last night and -- leave them.
Never mind that the United States expanded and -- what what what used to be Mexico.
If the truth be known in a lot of these circumstances if you do some of these Mexicans go back where you came from the -- -- Texas California Arizona.
Well joining me now to our give us -- to psychoanalyze the sensitivity trainer and the sensitivity training.
Clinical psychologist doctor Katherine sperling I great to have you here let -- I mean I've watched the second various.
Parts or over the course of the last week by -- -- what your reaction.
-- -- mystifying -- it's absolutely mystifying.
Sensitivity training is supposed to be a feedback loop it's supposed to actively involved people.
In learning how to put yourself in someone else to choose what he's doing the dictating in what he's doing its lecturing.
It's so alien to what really says -- hit activity training kids.
And how it affects experience.
Because sensitivity training is more than words it's also.
Experience.
Its experience and in sensitivity training by definition is to open one's mind rather at supposedly.
That's the stuff if indoctrination I have never and I had some familiar with sensitive -- -- -- actually.
Did sensitivity training early on -- young man.
For the Department of Labor.
And mean this is.
Extraordinary.
To talk to witness has but.
Watch this if you will and and and give -- your reaction to this kind of training.
And in and try to tell us why in the world the Department of Agriculture reviewing engage in something like this.
-- wanted to see America was -- -- outsiders say that.
Court today's inside.
We get very nervous -- today's outsiders.
I want to say the pilgrims were illegal aliens.
Say -- pilgrims navigator passport for the Indians.
We think.
The only possible plausible explanation I can think.
It that he wanted to make people uncomfortable.
And they -- -- for them to think about what he was saying.
But this is such a bizarre weighing.
Of trying to reach people.
And such -- it it's such had disconnect.
Two -- sensitivity training.
Is and it's needed.
It's just it's mystifying honestly the it really is.
The chanting nonsense.
In the fact that taxpayer dollars are being spent on this this outfit is incredible.
Among some of -- language here.
If you tell some of those Mexicans quote go back where you came from -- As if anybody it is the if you create straw men or and then.
Makes -- differences are riots -- joke apparently.
-- but it it's really.
That chanting the indoctrination.
I was wondering why he didn't just explain what that there the treaty of Guadalupe 81848.
Was all about maybe that would have helped him in the sensitivity training.
Or maybe he could have taken into account the fact that this is the only nation on the whole -- -- in which -- That is ever permitted.
Even consider -- -- making eleven million people who -- it illegal or won't citizens of the United States.
Absolutely it was it was -- and listen our country has been built on inclusion not exclusion you know -- that's it does this is because so.
Part of the sensitivity training -- Think might be that we need to kind of looked -- their consciousness about our values absolutely maybe point out that 300000.
Americans.
Died to free the slaves or -- no other country on her own group.
Has ever gone to war with itself to free slaves.
It's an extraordinary and mobile moment in our history that it's not mentioned.
Off I would tell you something that really strikes me is that this this man mr.
bond I -- tests.
Seems to be so -- maniacal.
It seems to me such about -- -- branded -- about what the focus of since its sensitivity training should say.
It's almost like he's enjoying being at actor up there with the power after -- -- -- -- and ego trip when everybody I'm solid.
You know I know.
And then -- days but it's great that that our audience gets to see dampens yes going on because you have your heart -- professional -- jurors.
View of what it all means thanks so much thank you --
