This kind of rhetoric I think might be at the root of the problem.
If you believe the company founders, in the face of being told they occupy their position 'due to privilege' is 'right about everything' then you're the problem.
Telling executives that they are 'denying racism exists' when they are actually only denying that it exists at the company is obviously straw manning.
If you're of the position that 'anyone who questions claims of racism is a white supremacist', then you're entitled to that position, but it's 'war language' that is driving a lot of irresponsible toxicity in the workplace.
"Telling executives that they are 'denying racism exists' when they are actually only denying that it exists at the company is obviously straw manning."
Singer's quote:
“I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,” Singer said. “I don’t believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”
He wasn't talking about the company, he was talking about society. Unless you think he was saying they "live in" the company ...
Saying he got sacked for questioning it at the company is a spin added later by his apologists.
To the extent that white supremacy is synonymous with racism (which, at least at this point in history, I think is arguable given the fact that we live in a world dominated by the vestiges of the British empire, and that structural inequality is almost entirely against non-white people globally) then people who question the claim of racism are at the very least inadvertently advancing the causes of white supremacy.
If you believe the company founders, in the face of being told they occupy their position 'due to privilege' is 'right about everything' then you're the problem.
Telling executives that they are 'denying racism exists' when they are actually only denying that it exists at the company is obviously straw manning.
If you're of the position that 'anyone who questions claims of racism is a white supremacist', then you're entitled to that position, but it's 'war language' that is driving a lot of irresponsible toxicity in the workplace.