Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley wrote a letter on Thursday to U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette demanding an explanation for racially segregated diversity and inclusion training at a federally-funded U.S. nuclear facility.

Leaked documents reported by City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo this week revealed a three-day mandatory training in 2019 for white male executives at Sandia National Laboratories, a government contractor that assesses U.S. nuclear weapons.

The federal government’s premier nuclear research lab hosted a 3-day reeducation camp for “white males,” with the goal of exposing their “white privilege” and deconstructing “white male culture.”

Here are the leaked documents from the race-segregated, taxpayer-funded session.👇

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 12, 2020

The “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations” training took place in 2019 at La Posada luxury resort, Rufo reported, and was taught by the organization White Men as Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP).

With the stated goal of prompting white men to accept blame for creating “oppressions,” participants were reportedly required to recite “white privilege statements” and “male privilege statements,” apologize for their own privilege, acknowledge the connection between mass killings and “white male culture” and other tasks.

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