I'll be giving extremely limited details to protect privacy. I mostly want to vent, but could use some advice, too.
So my job hired me and my coworkers due to belonging to a minority group, to apply our experiences to assist the company's partners in creating inclusive and relevant content. My program is federally funded.
Last year we were told we would vote on some new partners. I researched each of them, and one is known as a hate group. I actually knew this already, as I've already dealt with them online over the years. But I learned more about this group's work, and it would be extremely harmful to the content we want to create. I brought this to the attention of my coworkers, and we voted unanimously against approving this partner.
The boss partnered us with them anyway. All attempts to protest or fight this have been shut down, and this group will soon be joining us in our zoom calls occasionally. I will have to sit and interact directly with a hate group that targets people like me.
I considered quitting, but I'd just be replaced. No. I want to fight this. I'm filing a complaint with my workplace, as well as the EEOC and the Office of Civil Rights. It isn't okay to force employees to work with a hate group.
The excuse from the boss is that this group isn't widely known as a hate group outside of my minority, and that they claim they aren't a hate group.