These are dangerous times to be normal

Seems like the demonstrably worst of people are trying to impose their will on normal effective people and threatening them with reeducation, social stigma, de-platforming, cancellation, or loss of career if you deviate from the new received ideology of hatred, racism, and division.  

It is a remarkably parochial American ideology - irrelevant to the rest of the world where religion, caste, class and other abstract identities are far more consequential.  

One means of accomplishing submission is for corporations and state agencies to hold struggle sessions in which people are supposed to confess their inherent racism regardless of anything they have said or done in their lives.  It is patently absurd and hugely dependent on the good nature of Americans to put up with nonsense in order to ease social tensions.  

But the further you go down the Critical Theory road, the more disengaged from reality and the more dangerous your position becomes.

In addition to struggle sessions, state agencies and corporations are also keen to document implicit bias (in support of the charge of institutional racism.)  Implicit Association Test is the preferred means of demonstrating these implicit biases even though study after study demonstrates there is no correlation between a person's IAT score and any objective measure of racist behaviors.  Even though the same person can produce dramatically different scores when taken over time.  

Even though the results repeatedly turn up reasonably absurd results (IAT results indicating the prevalence of racism within the black community against themselves).  Even though "IAT demonstrates inconsistent internal consistency and its test-retest reliability stands at 0.60, a relatively weak level."  Even though "administering the IAT in different languages yields significantly different scores for bilingual individuals. For example, studies conducted with Moroccan participants fluent in both French and Arabic showed that participants are biased when completing an IAT in their native language; however, that bias is diminished when completing an IAT in another language."  Even though its validity has since been renounced by some of the original developers.  

So how do politely go along with kabuki theater that is absurd and has no empirical foundation without seeming to fulfill the role of an unreconstructed racist?

Holly Math Nerd has the answer in How to Game the IAT.

The Implicit Association Test is used to try to show people their “implicit biases.” It’s complete horseshit for many reasons, among them this one: it doesn’t differentiate between awareness of stereotypes and acceptance of them.

Here’s an example: I’m deaf. I’m proud of making my way through the world just as well as any hearing person. I am not a burden to anyone. Because I am hyper-aware of the disabled=burden stereotype, I was quick with negative words when I took the IAT disability test for the first time. My first score indicated a strong negative attitude towards disability, when my actual attitude is the precise opposite. I not only don’t feel negative about my deafness (or the disabilities of some of my closest friends), the benefits of having a different experience of the world are quite clear to me. And I wouldn’t trade them for perfect hearing, even if I could. 

If this sounds like the test is creating the problem it purports to identify, congratulations! You understand it.

 She then provides easy instructions on how to answer in a fashion consistent with what the scorers want to see.  Now that's useful knowledge that might save some jobs and careers.