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Beyond foreign policy, the discussion shifts to recent domestic policy decisions, notably in Durham County, where the local council has scrapped diversity training for counselors. This decision has sparked a debate about the purpose and impact of such training, often characterized as divisive or ideological.
A representative of the Reform Party criticizes these initiatives, challenging the concept of unconscious bias training. They advocate for a straightforward approach to equality: treating everyone equally without dividing society into racial or cultural categories. The speaker laments that such diversity initiatives amount to "neo-racism" that undermines traditional values of fairness and meritocracy.