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Though Vought said that the president remains "fully committed to the fair and equal treatment of all individuals," he said "false" and "demeaning propaganda" had no place in the federal government, pointing to training sessions which teach that "virtually all white people contribute to racism" or require staff to state that they "benefit from racism."

According to internal documents obtained by Christopher Rufo, the director of the right-leaning Center on Wealth and Poverty, the training courses for government officials have encouraged personnel to "own their racism," as well as to accept their "unconscious bias," "white privilege" and "white fragility." Agencies including the FBI, the Sandia National Laboratories, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, among many others, have undergone such training.

After ordering federal agencies to stop spending tax dollars on 'anti-racism' training, President Trump called 'critical race theory' a "sickness," and vowed to "quickly extinguish" it from the government.

As Trump's supporters cheered the ban, the president himself doubled down on Saturday.

Critical race theory has existed in academia since the 1980s, but exploded into the mainstream in recent months, as 'Black Lives Matter' protests and riots swept across the US following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. Its core concepts are the existence of 'white privilege' - the notion that America is founded on "white supremacy" and "institutional racism," and that all white people must be pushed to confront their own "unconscious racism."

Some of its most ardent preachers have spun their teachings into a viable cottage industry, with author and academic Robin DiAngelo, for instance, charging upwards of $20,000 to lecture corporate boards on the original sin of whiteness.

Trump's ban came after a number of conservative reporters revealed that federal employees - from FBI agents through treasury officials to nuclear scientists - were being 'educated' on how to deconstruct their "white male culture."

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