well i watched the entire clip and
joining me now is byron york washington
examiner chief political correspondent a
fox business contributor
i've always wondered if the new york
times would do anything
more to discredit itself well yesterday
that happened fire well so far so good i
watched the whole clip too it's about
two and a half minutes long so it's not
just a little b
snippet and maura gabe began by
giving her opinion that she thought
democrats in congress should create
a january 6 capital riot commission
on their own and then she talked about
trump voters
who she believed connoted being american
with being white and the desire on her
part to
separate the idea of being american and
being white
and then she went and talked about
visiting long island over the
memorial day weekend visit a friend she
saw
as you just heard these these signs that
were
cursing joe biden or whatever and then
she saw these american flags
and she said specifically that she found
that disturbing
too as if flying the american flag sent
the message
this is my country you don't belong here
so that's what she said and it really
wasn't taken out of context
uh and i i love the tweet though because
it's something that you get from the
left very often it's a finger wagon
you just don't understand like i only
speak and hear
redneck and so i can't i can't
interpret some what someone is saying
and say
oh she said she's disturbed by people
flying the american flag on the back of
a pickup truck
oh i'm sorry i you know i do understand
a little bit of rube and hayseed
but i was just wrong i'm i was just
mistaken so
i took it the way that a lot of people
on the left talk to
people in the flyover states as they
like to refer to
much of the country byron stay right
there we've got this story
lockheed martin facing blacklash over
some woke
training courses the defense company now
admitting that employees
attend courses to bring awareness to
white male
culture and leaders in the company are
required to be present at a three-day
program
called the quote white man's caucus fox
news's dan springer is in
seattle with more details hey dan
ortegan as you called it the white dude
conference right um
you know tom cotton the senator uh
republican senator was the one who
started looking into this and asked
lockheed martin if this was all true
and lockheed martin basically copped to
it saying yes this training happened
in fact about 1200 people across the
country in lockheed places
have been going through similar training
it's all legal they say that helps make
the company better
but there are some jaw aspects first it
was only 13
white male executives who were forced to
attend
this white men's caucus at the beginning
of the program the diversity trainers
led a
free association exercise asking the
lockheed employees
to list connotations for the term white
men
the trainers wrote down old racist
privileged
anti-women angry aryan nation kkk
founding fathers guns guilty and can't
jump
it's one thing to embrace diversity it's
one thing to treat
people equally and to view them based
upon the ability of their work
and what they actually do it's another
thing all together
to start basically putting some people
down or pulling them back a peg
basically because the color of their
skin now in its response to senator
cotton lockheed's ceo wrote
a diverse and inclusive workforce is a
critical aspect to lockheed martin's
business strategy
and culture by encouraging a diversity
of backgrounds thoughts experiences and
skill sets
lockheed martin is able to recruit and
retain some of the best talent in
america
the trainers had the lofty executives
read statements from the
perspective of racial minorities and
women things like
i'm tired of you making more money than
me i'm tired of people thinking they're
they're smarter than me and the trainers
say it's all about helping men discover
the roots of white male culture which
is made up of things such as rugged
individualism
a can-do attitude and hard work and they
say
these things are superficially positive
but in reality they are devastating
to women and minorities dan thank you so
much for that report dan springer for us
in seattle
byron before i jump say anything what
are your thoughts on this
well this is just uh surreal it's uh
straight out of china and chairman mao
being forced to engage in ritual
self-criticism
some of the things that the white male
executives were told to do is read
statements
about themselves for example quote
my culture teaches me to minimize the
perspectives and powers of people of
other races quote my reproductive organs
are not seen as the property of other
men
the government and or even strangers
because of
my gender being forced to to read this
stuff
it's really just incredible that they're
being
made to do this on the pain of losing
their job this was compulsory this was
not an
optional thing to do at lockheed martin
i just look at this and like
i was talking to somebody who's raising
uh children
right now and the person was just saying
that i'm teaching my kids to be honest
kind and exhibit a strong work ethic
and i've told them that if you're
willing to show up early and stay late
and do whatever it takes at work
you will do well and you will succeed so
now a can-do attitude is superficial
and somehow harmful to women and
people of color i mean this this
thinking
is like leads to the destruction of a
modern society
it does and and by the way these were
very very high-ranking lockheed
executives being forced
to do this uh one was the man in charge
of the f-35
uh fighter program which is about a
trillion dollar program another in
charge of the c-130 program another
really huge huge thing uh these were
rather big deals
uh inside uh lockheed martin but these
they they probably got to the positions
they were in
uh by exhibiting a can-do attitude and
uh
working hard and operating from
principles and striving towards success
i mean these are universal things and
what the diversity trainers who were
hired
uh by lockheed martin and this is a very
profitable business these days diversity
training
um we're told did was they came in
and they told these executives that
those
attributes the ones that they that had
made them successful
and will make other people of all races
successful
too uh were attributes of whiteness
and they had to remember that was my
thing it's like if
a dominant white dude characteristic
is a can-do attitude and hard work well
i'm a
chick so does that mean that i have a
i don't give a rip attitude and i'm lazy
i mean what that's what that again
it just it divides people into groups
based on characteristics that just
simply aren't true
but by really quickly before we go why
in
the name of anything that i can't say on
tv
would lockheed do this why is lockheed
doing this training
well this is very very popular in the
corporate world now this these these
trainers
and not it's not like they just work
with lockheed they work with a lot of
companies
sometimes i think they do it to give
themselves some protection
against lawsuits by disgruntled
employees
they may worry about the justice
department depending on the
administration in
power in washington so there are
business reasons
to do it but they also seem to be caught
up in the current
uh woke trend as well great to see
byron thank you so much byron