Civil War Over Wokeness At Sandia

     The Critical Race Theory “Struggle Sessions” are being challenged from within by a brave soul who has likely thrown his entire career out the window with a “canceling” on its way.

There is a civil war erupting at @SandiaLabs.

Following my investigation, a dissident electrical engineer named Casey Peterson emailed all 16,000 employees denouncing critical race theory in the lab and hoping to spark a rebellion against Sandia executives.

Here's the story.🧵

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

On Tuesday, Peterson made a YouTube video "pushing back back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege."

The video quickly hit 10,000 views within the labs and dozens of Sandia employees contacted Peterson to express support.https://t.co/vMDH2vILB7

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

     Of course intellectual diversity at one of the top scientific labs in the world wouldn’t be tolerated.

     Sandia leadership quickly moves to silence him.

Within hours, Sandia executives dispatched a counterintelligence team to lock Peterson out of the network and scrub his communications from internal servers—which, via the Streisand Effect, made the video even more viral and sparked widespread unrest against Sandia executives.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

By the afternoon, executives were panicking about the brewing rebellion, placed Peterson on paid administrative leave, and established a "security review board" to "evaluate whether [his] actions have comprised or posed a threat to Sandia computing and security systems."

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

Peterson—who took a stand at grave risk to his career—says he is speaking on behalf of all of Sandia employees who are "scared to speak out" because of the lab's repressive culture. "If I get fired because of this," Peterson says, "the fight does not end, it only intensifies."

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

This is the first explicit rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government—and the coalition is growing. "We need to completely rip [critical race theory] out of Sandia root and stem," Peterson says. "It is cancer and we need to get it out of the labs right now."

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative employees will be purged.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

Keep this in mind: Sandia Labs is a federally-funded research agency and designs America's nuclear weapons. Senator @HawleyMO and @SecBrouillette have launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated their purge against conservatives.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

According to multiple sources, the executives who have pushed the most toxic elements of critical race theory and race-segregated trainings are James Peerey, Dori Ellis, David White (he/him), and Mark Sellers. They must be investigated by the Inspector General. pic.twitter.com/Zrhqf9aclA

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

     But of course they are all White and mostly male.

Here's the bottom line: this is the first shot in the rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government. Casey Peterson has taken a courageous stand and the Inspector General must conduct a full investigation of Sandia Labs—and hold executives accountable.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

We are opening up a multi-front war against critical race theory in the federal government: (1) investigative reporting to expose the truth; (2) internal rebellions to increase the pressure; (3) inspector general investigations; (4) laying the groundwork for an executive order.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

It might take time, there might be losses, but we will achieve victory! Swords up!⚔️ Prayers up! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/SYm4RmHJBp

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 27, 2020

     How much worse are these Struggle Sessions in the rest of the Federal Government.

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