I work at a giant, global consulting firm that has gone full woke. After being told during mandatory anti-racism training session recently that inviting an African-American colleague to join you at a basketball game is a micro-aggression that can result in disciplinary action, I despaired for my country, my career, and the future. This letter gives me hope.
I work at a giant, global consulting firm that has gone full woke. After being told during mandatory anti-racism training session recently that inviting an African-American colleague to join you at a basketball game is a micro-aggression that can result in disciplinary action, I despaired for my country, my career, and the future. This letter gives me hope.
According to the CRT apparatchiks at my firm, to assume that a black male likes, or worse, plays basketball is racist. Of course, to avoid committing the micro aggression, you withhold the invitation based solely on the color of your colleagueтАЩs skin, which is, in fact, racist. See the CRT logic at work?
Good example of the insanity. Best of luck with the woke culture at your firm. I retired four years ago and am so happy because I donтАЩt have to deal with this crap in the workplace. ItтАЩs probably a huge distraction from the real work of serving clients.
I left my giant tech company in Seattle, name rhymes with Schmamazon, shortly after the directive to replace "brown bag" sessions during mid day to "lunch & learn" so as to avoid offense. Racist and classist, apparently. It was only one of many many clues to GTFO.
I'm happily retired at a young age, watching with horror and amusement as this country gets suffocated by a giant pillow full of thoughts and feelings.
BTW, sorry to put you on the spot, but it sounds you may have some extra time on your hands, you might be highly educated, you may be tech savvy, and you may not be happy with the way things are going, in out country and in our community. If that sounds about right, could you try to put some of those tool you have at your disposable to more use? Run for the school board? Run for the city council? Help organize people in some way? Start a local substack? I'd support you in any of those efforts! Besides, if you (and I) don't do it, we can count on Nikita (local activist) and her team from The Station are already working on all that and have been for years.
Nikita Oliver represents everything that is rotten in See Kettle. I've lost friends over their support of her and that other idiot who actually did get elected -- twice!!! -- Schwarma Kablunt. I'm afraid I'm much too conservative for this city. Even Chris Rufo dropped out of the mayoral race when his family was threatened. Too many sociopaths with too much institutional backing. But thank you!
What you say about the support and about some of these characters is true, yet I would not simply dismiss them as idiots. Nikita has been allowed to indoctrinate kids at local high schools for years. Look at the fundraising machinery backing Kablunt, or the way Jayapal is planting her proteges all over the city, the county... Their voters will always show up. I am not as concerned about their ideas, as those can be argued. That battle could be won. What I am more worried about is the fact that they work harder, they are more committed, better funded, and simply "want it" more. That I have to respect. They have cowered an entire city to a point that no one seems to dare run against them.
Sadly I am still a reading teacher in a city whose name rhymes with see kettle, in a neighborhood whose name rhymes with deacon bill. In our session last week, the staff made a list of traits of white supremacist culture that we need to keep an eye out for and eradicate in our lives and in our school. One of them was "worship of the written word". Now I need to figure out how to teach reading without the "written word".
Oh, Fielding, you must be one of the only literate instructors remaining in our Emerald City. I can only hope that more parents will recognize the harm that will, that is, befalling children, and start rattling cages. Surely an alignment of like-minded parents and teachers such as yourself can make change. Or even start a charter school!
You must be the only Seattleite that would drop an "f" bomb in the middle of the conversation (made my day), in other words be direct, honest, and genuine.
Or bullshit. ItтАЩs all bullshit. Someone should (maybe has) do
A study on the mini CRT industry helping to create DEI divisions
(Yeah thatтАЩs a thing now) at Corp and educational institutions across the globe.)And make sure and see how itтАЩs tied to lobbyists and DC. Would be enlightening.
I work at a giant, global consulting firm that has gone full woke. After being told during mandatory anti-racism training session recently that inviting an African-American colleague to join you at a basketball game is a micro-aggression that can result in disciplinary action, I despaired for my country, my career, and the future. This letter gives me hope.
Sorry, can you explain why it is microaggression?
According to the CRT apparatchiks at my firm, to assume that a black male likes, or worse, plays basketball is racist. Of course, to avoid committing the micro aggression, you withhold the invitation based solely on the color of your colleagueтАЩs skin, which is, in fact, racist. See the CRT logic at work?
Good example of the insanity. Best of luck with the woke culture at your firm. I retired four years ago and am so happy because I donтАЩt have to deal with this crap in the workplace. ItтАЩs probably a huge distraction from the real work of serving clients.
I retired when our sensitivity trainer said we couldnтАЩt say тАЬyou guysтАЭ anymore.
I left my giant tech company in Seattle, name rhymes with Schmamazon, shortly after the directive to replace "brown bag" sessions during mid day to "lunch & learn" so as to avoid offense. Racist and classist, apparently. It was only one of many many clues to GTFO.
I'm happily retired at a young age, watching with horror and amusement as this country gets suffocated by a giant pillow full of thoughts and feelings.
BTW, sorry to put you on the spot, but it sounds you may have some extra time on your hands, you might be highly educated, you may be tech savvy, and you may not be happy with the way things are going, in out country and in our community. If that sounds about right, could you try to put some of those tool you have at your disposable to more use? Run for the school board? Run for the city council? Help organize people in some way? Start a local substack? I'd support you in any of those efforts! Besides, if you (and I) don't do it, we can count on Nikita (local activist) and her team from The Station are already working on all that and have been for years.
Nikita Oliver represents everything that is rotten in See Kettle. I've lost friends over their support of her and that other idiot who actually did get elected -- twice!!! -- Schwarma Kablunt. I'm afraid I'm much too conservative for this city. Even Chris Rufo dropped out of the mayoral race when his family was threatened. Too many sociopaths with too much institutional backing. But thank you!
What you say about the support and about some of these characters is true, yet I would not simply dismiss them as idiots. Nikita has been allowed to indoctrinate kids at local high schools for years. Look at the fundraising machinery backing Kablunt, or the way Jayapal is planting her proteges all over the city, the county... Their voters will always show up. I am not as concerned about their ideas, as those can be argued. That battle could be won. What I am more worried about is the fact that they work harder, they are more committed, better funded, and simply "want it" more. That I have to respect. They have cowered an entire city to a point that no one seems to dare run against them.
Sadly I am still a reading teacher in a city whose name rhymes with see kettle, in a neighborhood whose name rhymes with deacon bill. In our session last week, the staff made a list of traits of white supremacist culture that we need to keep an eye out for and eradicate in our lives and in our school. One of them was "worship of the written word". Now I need to figure out how to teach reading without the "written word".
Oh, Fielding, you must be one of the only literate instructors remaining in our Emerald City. I can only hope that more parents will recognize the harm that will, that is, befalling children, and start rattling cages. Surely an alignment of like-minded parents and teachers such as yourself can make change. Or even start a charter school!
You must be the only Seattleite that would drop an "f" bomb in the middle of the conversation (made my day), in other words be direct, honest, and genuine.
I salute you. Enjoy your retirement.
This is a lot of mental gymnastics...
Or bullshit. ItтАЩs all bullshit. Someone should (maybe has) do
A study on the mini CRT industry helping to create DEI divisions
(Yeah thatтАЩs a thing now) at Corp and educational institutions across the globe.)And make sure and see how itтАЩs tied to lobbyists and DC. Would be enlightening.
Not sure if it is mini anymore. Unclear if there is higher power behind, but the economics is there.