Training about racism can foster a hostile work environment. Wait, WHAT?!?

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Wait a minute, Eric! Weren’t you just telling us that anti-harassment training is part of the backbone of a compliant workplace?

I did. But, occasionally, employers can step over the line.

I’ll give you a recent example from a federal court opinion involving a college professor claiming he was forced to quit his job.

Why did he quit?

According to the plaintiff’s federal court complaint, the defendant university, which held itself out as “the most diverse campus within” its network of college campuses “and the only majority-minority campus,” took training on race way too far.

The plaintiff claimed that he

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