If you’ve ever worked in an office environment, almost anywhere, actually, some people can’t keep their politics to themselves. I never discussed it in the office unless they brought it up, usually asking for my thoughts. And I was fortunate. For the twenty years before I went remote, nine out of ten employees were Republican, not everyone is so lucky, and certainly not working in Unions or for a town or city.
Joshua Diemert worked for the City of Seattle and, after eight years, had to quit.
The practices noted by Appellant Diemert in his brief included the Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI), in which “the City subjected Mr. Diemert to relentless racial harassment, compelled participation in race-segregated trainings, and eventually retaliation for raising concerns. When he reported that City policy encouraged employees to ‘lead with race’ and divided them into ‘white oppressors’ and ‘BIPOC oppressed,’ he was told-repeatedly that ‘white people can’t experience racial discrimination.’”
Programs like Critical Race Theory and DEI weaponize partisan politics. The Office Kommie Karen and her supervisors are handed the nuclear codes and launch permissions that they use without hesitation. Given the proximity to COVID madness, Diemert, who is very likely himself a long-time Seattle Dem, got carpet bombed daily.
Even if you love your job, that’s a miserable way to work and live.
Diemert argued that the RSJI and the harassment he suffered as a result of it constituted the establishment of a “hostile work environment” in violation of Title VII, which prohibits racial discrimination in the workplace.
The court issued a summary judgment in favor of the City, so Diemert and his lawyers from the Pacific Legal Foundation have appealed to the 9th Circuit. I’m not convinced he’d get relief there, but I’d be surprised if it doesn’t find a way to the High Court. The presumption that someone is unable to experience racial discrimination is racial discrimination. It is the dehumanization of an individual based on the color of their skin.
It is also against the rules of the City of Seattle.
There are laws that protect you from illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the policy of the City of Seattle to provide a work environment for its employees that is free from discrimination and promotes equal employment opportunity for and equitable treatment to all employees.
The City of Seattle will not tolerate harassment or discrimination of its employees by its co-workers, supervisors, managers, officers of the City, or from non-employees conducting business with the City.
The alleged treatment rises well above the threshold of bullying and harassment, and it is directly tied to Joshua’s skin color.
He has multiple grounds for mistreatment by the city and its failure to protect him from a hostile work environment, which seems like a foregone conclusion in that Proglodyte mecca, but the local Federal Court couldn’t be bothered with it.
We’ll try to follow up. The case has the potential to address workplace discrimination standards that the Left has boldly embraced through CRT and DEI, not that thye’ll be any less coniving than schools or anyone else by trying to hide what they do.
Lawsuits are the only recourse at that point. When it starts to hurt enough, they’ll rethink it. Sadly, municipal governments will spend other people’s money until the end of time, only to blame you for the expense if anyone asks. They won’t back down easily.
It’s going to take a while to unbreak what the Left broke.
