BREAKING: Racial Equity Mandatory, Austin/San Antonio
Austin and San Antonio go off the deep end.
More Texas localities have been caught mandating public employees believe in racial equity as a condition of employment.
Earlier reports exposed how Harris County (Houston) was mandating that certain public employees work toward racial equity, despite the irrelevance of the ideology to their jobs. (READ MORE: Racial Equity Mandatory, Harris County Employees)
Racial equity is a neo-Marxist political ideology that replaces class with race. Racial equity theory views Caucasians as oppressors and everyone else as oppressed.
Requiring a belief in racial equity as a condition of employment makes work in (ostensibly) apolitical public institutions conditional on specific political beliefs.
Indeed, racial equity has become a condition of employment for certain positions in Austin and San Antonio.
“The ideal candidate should possess excellent interpersonal skills with a strong ability to apply a social, racial, and equity lens to establish relationships with City staff and the community.”
- City of Austin job listing
The City of San Antonio took equity requirements furthest of any jurisdiction yet uncovered by Cowtown Caller by creating an Equity Manager role.
The Equity Manager position explicitly mandated a belief in economic, racial, and gender equity.
“Supports the Office of Equity’s equity training strategy by developing specialized training and curriculum related to equity concepts and frameworks, including racial and gender equity.”
-City of San Antonio job listing
Similar to racial equity, gender equity views men as oppressors and women as oppressed. On occasion, women too can be considered oppressors when equity theorists choose to include the transexual or transgender as the most oppressed class.
Economic equity is the least departed ideology from Marxist theory because it examines society through arbitrary economic class structures and mandates disparate treatment accordingly.
More shocking than the requirement that one must have certain political beliefs to manage city landfills (as in the case of Austin’s Resource Recovery Deputy Director) is the near-certainty of discrimination against Texans with common, mainstream belief systems.
It is unclear how these public institutions impose belief requirements without discriminating against traditional Christians, classical liberals, conservatives, and those whose convictions would be opposed to Marxist theory.
It stretches credulity to believe that someone who refused to commit themselves to racial/gender/economic equity would be considered or hired for a role that mandated the belief.
This poses numerous issues of discrimination.
First, hiring mid-level bureaucrats on ideology means that government employees are being hired on something other than merit.
Second, mandating neo-Marxist political beliefs excludes the majority of Texans from consideration for employment in their own public institutions.
Third, by including racial equity in a management-level job description, these cities have created an unspoken expectation that entry-level employees must observe a certain political belief and advance the cause to be considered for promotion.
Moreover, this is a total waste.
Neither Austin nor San Antonio would suffer any appreciable detriment if they eliminated these duties. If the Equity Manager role was eliminated, almost $120,000 in payroll expenditures could be saved every year.
The greatest question these requirements raise is; if we must mandate political beliefs why do we not mandate public employees be patriotic or at least commit themselves to delivering services as effectively as the private sector?
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