Lockheed, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sends key executives on a mission to deconstruct their “white male privilege.” By Christopher Rufo.

Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity-training program aimed at deconstructing their “white male culture” and encouraging them to atone for their “white male privilege” …

At the beginning of the program, the diversity trainers led a “free association” exercise, asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the term “white men.” The trainers wrote down “old,” “racist,” “privileged,” “anti-women,” “angry,” “Aryan Nation,” “KKK,” “Founding fathers,” “guns,” “guilty,” and “can’t jump.” …

The firm’s training programs are designed to assist white men in discovering the “roots of white male culture.” That culture … consists of traits — such as “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” “operating from principles,” and “striving towards success” — which are superficially positive but are “devastating” to women and minorities. …

Trump shut if off for a while, but now the money spigot is turned back on:

President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, banning racial stereotyping, scapegoating, and discrimination in federal diversity programs. The Trump ban, however, was temporary; President Biden rescinded the order on his first day in office.

Today, it’s back to business as usual. Consultants such as White Men As Full Diversity Partners peddle fashionable racial theories and attach themselves to bloated government contractors such as Lockheed Martin. Presidents change, but for now the woke-industrial complex has no term limit.