Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Starbucks’ Futile Bias Training
Aired: 2021-03-22
Duration: 06:13


=== Why Diversity Training Backfires (04:15) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  Next Tuesday, Starbucks will close all 8,000 of its stores and spend the afternoon teaching every one of its 175,000 employees how to fight racial bias.
[00:00:20]  Starbucks will lose about $12 million in revenue, plus whatever it costs to pay all the racism gurus to run the training.
[00:00:29]  Former Attorney General Eric Holder will help with the training.
[00:00:34]  Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, was supposed to help too, but blacks didn't want him, so he's out.
[00:00:43]  Starbucks has generously promised to make the curriculum available to other companies.
[00:00:47]  We at American Renaissance plan to ask for it.
[00:00:52]  Starbucks is doing this because, as you recall, two blacks went into a shop in Philadelphia and one of them asked to use the restroom.
[00:01:00]  They were told restrooms are for customers only and were asked to buy something.
[00:01:05]  They refused.
[00:01:06]  And a white manager named Holly Hilton asked them to leave.
[00:01:10]  They refused.
[00:01:12]  So she called the police who came and also asked them to leave.
[00:01:15]  They refused again and were arrested.
[00:01:19]  The manager thus became the latest great white racist.
[00:01:23]  Starbucks paid the two blacks money.
[00:01:26]  And 170,000 people are going to be trained how not to become the next Holly Hilton.
[00:01:33]  Now, what will Starbucks get out of all this training?
[00:01:36]  Probably nothing.
[00:01:38]  Here is an article from Harvard Business Review.
[00:01:41]  The title is, Diversity Training Doesn't Work.
[00:01:44]  It cites a study of 829 companies over a period of 31 years, which concludes that the training had, and I quote, no positive effects in the average workplace.
[00:01:57]  I quote again, rather than changing attitudes of prejudice and bias, it solidified them.
[00:02:04]  Apparently, when you tell people how biased everyone else is, it confirms their own biases.
[00:02:10]  If you tell them, An awful lot of people subconsciously think black men are dangerous.
[00:02:16]  They might just begin to wonder why they think that.
[00:02:20]  Another finding was that if anti-bias training stresses the need to avoid lawsuits or bad PR, managers become especially less likely to hire non-whites.
[00:02:31]  That makes sense.
[00:02:33]  You can avoid the whole problem, lawsuits and all, if you just don't have any blacks or Hispanics to begin with.
[00:02:40]  If anybody were whooping up the idea of bias training, surely it would be Time magazine, one of the most relentlessly liberal magazines in America.
[00:02:51]  But even Time, in an article from this January, says, and I quote, Here's the thing about diversity training.
[00:02:58]  It doesn't work.
[00:03:01]  Still, Virtually every Fortune 500 company and about half of all mid-sized companies spend an estimated $8 billion a year on this foolishness.
[00:03:12]  Just another cost, and a completely avoidable one, of what we are to believe is America's greatest strength: diversity.
[00:03:21]  Meanwhile, Starbucks has issued a new policy on customers.
[00:03:26]  You don't have to buy anything to be a customer.
[00:03:29]  You can use the restrooms.
[00:03:31]  You can use the Wi-Fi.
[00:03:32]  You can camp out for as long as you like, and you don't have to spend a dime.
[00:03:37]  Starbucks says it wants to become the third place in your life after home and work, where you can just hang out.
[00:03:46]  Nobody will call 911 unless you are an immediate threat to someone.
[00:03:51]  They want to be your third place?
[00:03:54]  Well, a lot of people don't have a first or a second place.
[00:03:57]  That is to say, they have no home and no job.
[00:04:01]  Starbucks won't be their third place for homeless people.

=== Airbnb's Bias Patrol (02:08) ===

[00:04:04]  It will be their one and only place.
[00:04:07]  As an article at entrepreneur.com notes, Starbucks is now open for loitering, and it's a terrible business decision.
[00:04:16]  Does Starbucks really want to become a homeless shelter?
[00:04:20]  And what if some of the most unnerving characters turn out to be black?
[00:04:25]  Will any Starbucks manager dare call the police?
[00:04:29]  What's going to happen is that customers will leave and get their coffee someplace else.
[00:04:34]  But Starbucks promises to forge ahead.
[00:04:37]  Over the months to come, it will consult with groups that will explain how to be nice to Muslims, LBGTQ people, Hispanics, and people with disabilities.
[00:04:49]  I hadn't heard there was a problem with the way Starbucks treats blind people or lesbians.
[00:04:54]  But employees are clearly going to be trained to within an inch of their lives.
[00:05:00]  And let me close with an update on racism swami Eric Holder.
[00:05:06]  Airbnb, the company that lets you rent out a room in your house to overnight guests, has hired him.
[00:05:12]  You see...
[00:05:13]  Somebody cooked up pairs of fake Airbnb renter profiles that were identical, except that one was for Shaniqua and the other was for Catherine.
[00:05:24]  Well, Catherine got the nod for a room over Shaniqua, but only in one out of eight applications.
[00:05:32]  Now, that doesn't sound like massive discrimination to me, but it was enough to get Eric Holder a new gig.
[00:05:40]  And... Airbnb has hired employees to snoop on hosts and make sure that if you have a room, you better rent it to Shaniqua.
[00:05:49]  Alas, there was a catch in the study.
[00:05:53]  Black hosts were just as likely as white hosts to want to rent to Catherine rather than Shaniqua.
[00:06:00]  Maybe even more likely.
[00:06:02]  Have black people been brainwashed by our racist society?
[00:06:06]  Or do they just know a lot of black people?
[00:06:09]  As you can see, This bias business is murky.