HACKER Q&A
📣 Red_Tarsius

What do you think about the leaked Coca-Cola training video?


And what kind of training material were you forced to go through at work?

EDIT: The original source of the presentation is gone but you can find clips elsewhere. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/confronting-racism-with-robin-diangelo

  👤 CodeGlitch Accepted Answer ✓
Makes you wonder why this was removed doesn't it?

We've had forced "sexism at work" training. Actually wasn't too bad and was done in a tasteful way, and I think has been positive for our organisation.

From what I've heard about Coca-Cola's training, it talks about how to be "less white" - whatever that means. If that's the case then it's pretty disturbing, and is going to cause a lot of division. Good luck with the fallout Coca-Cola!

👤 op03
I havent read the details of this case but I feel these are complicated problems. And people need to give each other a break when it comes to complex stuff.

Its complex because of the wide differences in knowledge, life experience, personality types, religious/cultural beliefs etc of all the people in any org.

Shrinking these gaps will take time and a lot of blundering about. In a way watching an org solve problems outside their comfort zone is very similar to watching a kid wrestling with a hard problem.

Whats complicating things is Social/News media algorithmic amplification of such stories. Its very quick to put a global spotlight on any type of local blundering.

Blundering that goes on when the solution to the prob is well known requires such a spotlight.

But if the solutions are still being worked out and you get the whole school to laugh at the kid thats just bad man. It creates all kinds of new issues in addition to the hard one being worked on, from defensiveness, to avoidance of hard issues, anxieties, guilt, doubt, fear, hate etc etc...nothing good basically.

Social media algo amplification doesnt differenciate between the two cases and thats a big bug thats wasting everyones time.

👤 jschveibinz
Several years back, I decided to get a masters degree in teaching. I am white. One of the required courses was how to teach students who were neither white nor from a Euro-centric culture. It was both a challenging and transformative experience, based on essay writing. I think that telling people to be “less white” is probably silly and ineffective. Asking people to write about how they will work to support non-white or culturally different co-workers would make more sense to me based on my experience.