If you were to create a satirical product for radical feminists to peddle, it would look exactly like Everyday Feminism’s new “Healing from Toxic Whiteness” training program.
The online course spans eight weeks and costs users $97, limiting accessibility only to those people privileged enough to pay money and spend recreational time healing from fake ailments.
The website is truly ridiculous.
If you’ve not spent time on a college campus in recent years, the site’s content might as well have been written in a foreign language.
“For white people to truly engage in anti-racism work, they must first engage with their unconscious conditioning to think and act in racist ways,” the site says.
“By becoming conscious of your own conditioning, you will be able to choose whether or not to continue to do as you’ve been taught, or to act in accordance with your values of justice and humanity. This can be a painful and disruptive process — but the only way out is through,” it continues.
The program is also specifically timed to combat President Trump, addressing interested users by saying, “with Trump’s policies starting to roll out, you know you want to be fighting alongside people of color. But you also know that you may feel frozen in place by the feelings of shock, confusion, denial, and guilt that many white people have been dealing with since the election.”
After paying for the training program, participants are granted access to a series of video modules meant to be broken up into weeks, readings, exercises, and a private Facebook group.
Take a look at the course list:
Module 1 – A Framework on How White Supremacy Emotionally Harms White People
Module 2 – The Cyclical Journey of Healing from Privilege
Module 3 -The Compassionate Activism Approach and First Practice of Noticing Toxicity and Acknowledging Multiple Realities
Module 4 – The Second Practice of Humble Curiosity and Gentle Mindfulness
Module 5 – The Third Practice of Compassionate Self-Accountability and Radical Education
Module 6 – The Fourth Practice of Compassionate Truth-Telling and Consciousness-Raising Inquiry
Module 7 – The Fifth Practice of Shared Envisioning and Compassionate Non-Cooperation
Module 8 – Bringing It Together and Into Your Life
Everyday Feminism is actually a relatively popular feminist news source, with nearly 80,000 Twitter followers and more than 500,000 Facebook likes.
By the end of the program, Everyday Feminism promises users will be able to “get back all the time and energy you normally spend on feeling confused, anxious, and angry with yourself and others around racism and direct them towards taking action instead.”
One satisfied trainee said the program “allowed me to let go of my sense of guilt, entitlement, and all that goes along with ‘toxic whiteness.'”
Another reflected, “It was an exceptional experience to be held in witness of shame and guilt as a white person.”
In the FAQ section, Everyday Feminism explains, “While white people materially and socially benefit from racism, they are also emotionally harmed by it — which is rarely discussed and therefore makes it harder for white people to realize how they’re being manipulated by systemic racism.”
“That’s why it’s important for white people to free themselves from this toxic whiteness in order to begin developing an anti-racist white identity,” it concludes.
The only question remaining is whether President Trump will make sure the program is covered under his forthcoming healthcare plan, sparing feminists the $97 that could be better spent at Whole Foods.
Emily Jashinsky is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
