Reader Mail on Seattle's Cult of Victimhood

Things really are as bad as you think in Seattle. My article on the Seattle cult of victimhood inspired several alert readers to send me their thoughts, including these two horror stories.

One reader reports training employees at Seattle City Light in the use of some new equipment. It sounds like a comedy skit, only you are not allowed to laugh at such things.

Of the five City Light employees training on the new equipment, one was African American, one Native American, one Asian American, one woman, and one white male. The Native American wouldn’t use head sets, and needed special accommodation. The woman militantly said that several things in the equipment would have to be changed to accommodate her. The Asian American asked a few questions and quickly learned how to used the new equipment. The African American was “an old hand” who already knew the basics pretty well. The white male was the supervisor who said that he was fed up, but couldn’t walk away from the money.

Another exasperated reader sent me the definitions of Racism, Cultural Racism, and Institutional Racism that the staff of the Seattle School District’s equity and race relations staff had posted on the district’s website. It was the extreme left-wing victim-enabling stuff you would expect.

Since Cultural Racism on the part of whites includes an assumption of “future time orientation,” we can now understand why the Seattle School District lost about $34 million a year or so ago. Hey, obsessive planning and budgeting is so future-oriented and so racist!

Eventually all this stuff is going to fall down, but before it does a lot more people are going to have their lives ruined by Seattle’s victim-enabling culture.

It is going to get worse before it gets better.