Purity Test

The Minneapolis City Council is going full blown Maoist.

The council sent an “open letter“ to city employees in May, “encouraging“ them to sign a declaration that there was pretty much nothing to any white culture but racism:

In a May 28 meeting, Bender referred to an open letter which all city employees are invited to sign — anyone who signs the letter is acknowledging racism as a public health crisis, accepting responsibility for the “pain” they have caused as “stewards of the City of Minneapolis’s policies,” and recognizing that Minneapolis has been and continues to be harmful to the BIPOC community.

The letter was filed into the official city record and will be published on June 11 with the signatures of all who choose to sign, making it easy to know which employees decide not to sign the letter.

Bender said this statement should not have to be “courageous.”

“This should be baked into our systems, and what we all commit to unwaveringly every day,” Bender declared. “Our staff of color, particularly in Minneapolis, have been carrying the burden of white supremacy throughout our systems every day, for a very long time.”

Riots decimate entire neighborhoods.

Gangs turn commercial streets into free fire zones.

Hot rodders make the streets unlivable after dark on weekends, at best, and at worst blaze away at each other, harming only bystanders (as usual)

And this is what the city Council busies itself with.

16 thoughts on “Purity Test

  1. You are a city employee.
    You do not sign the letter.
    Your home address, phone number, email and direct deposit bank account (all Private Data on Individuals under the Data Practices Act) is accidentally leaked.
    Your home is vandalized, your family terrorized, your credit ruined.
    You sign the letter.

    Justice has been done.

  2. How about a counter-letter?

    Dear Lisa,

    “Shut the f*** up, you (to quote Samantha Bee) “feckless c–t.”.

    signed….

  3. Out here in Kalifornistan we are facing a summer of power outages and planned blackouts, we can’t water the crops because we can’t build reservoirs and we have to save the snail darter, the larger cities are crawling with homeless filth and needles and excrement, gas is going to be 5 dollars a gallon by the end of summer, but don’t worry, the gummint is on the job: gun grabbing!

  4. I was going to comment on this before, but nuked the comment because I hadn’t had enough coffee nor ire, but after reading the kinlaw comment above, I now have both.

    I don’t understand how it is that people will quietly accept the malicious incompetence that rules in progressive areas. Sure, some people get fed up and leave, but there are still thousands of people remaining who do nothing. Unless the voter fraud in municipal (or state as in CA) elections is so widespread that everyone knows there’s no point in voting, how do the likes of Lisa Bender, Gavin Newsom, or Maxine Waters continue to be re-elected. Comfortably. Time after time.

  5. JDM, Dennis Prager has said that the American left has been truly successful at only one thing: demonizing the right. I think that explains some of it. But not all.

  6. I don’t understand how it is that people will quietly accept the malicious incompetence that rules in progressive areas – jdm

    Among sheep, buffalo and progressives, it is always best to follow the herd.

  7. The flip side to this is that any employee who wants even better job security needs to simply refuse to sign, and then any action against that employee can be reasonable grounds for a big lawsuit that would allow the employee to retire early.

  8. bb
    “for a big lawsuit that would allow the employee to retire early.”
    you got that right! Mpls has a proven track record of BIG settlements (as an aside what kind of insurance premiums must they be paying).

    the only catch is finding a law firm that isn’t wired into City Hall.

  9. the only catch is finding a law firm that isn’t wired into City Hall. – PB

    Not really, quite the opposite actually.

    Think about it.

    Law firm sues city and gets millions for their client. That means the law firm gets 30% of millions.

    Then like Jen Psaki like to say, the money “circles back” to the DFL, to the “community orgs” and to the connected.

    After all, it’s just tax money.

  10. You guys… any action against that employee can be reasonable grounds for a big lawsuit

    This whole notion is ridiculously pollyannaish. Employment records would demonstrate that any employee who didn’t sign has always been a problem employee, he’s sexually harassed numerous co-workers, they were thinking of firing him anyway. He, his family, neighborhood gets terrorized (remember the terrorists will go out to Hugo to do so for a Mpls employee), the lawyers (law firm) is terrorized and backs out (sound familiar?). The guy gets nothing.

    Didn’t you pay any attention to the recent trial of another Mpls employee?

  11. jdm; that’s why smart employees keep copies of their performance reviews, and why smart lawyers prosecuting this kind of thing know IT consultants who can pull the dates of changes to the database. It’s also why smart companies insist on this kind of “marker” being present, as being found to have changed things later can be very, very expensive for employers.

  12. bike, that resolves exactly one aspect of my rant and *only* insofar as the civil justice system itself was not corrupted. Remember how in that case of another Mpls employee, the medical examiner’s clear indication of death by drug overdose was watered down to the point of irrelevance?

    You really don’t think that the city wouldn’t defend itself by all means, fair *and* foul, against an inappropriate litigant? I mean, the ease with which (the estates of) the two litigants in the last 15 months have gotten filthy rich from a city that for all intents and purposes was happy to write the checks, would fight tooth and nail to avoid paying a recalcitrant employee.

  13. … I mean, as this post started out, they’re Maoists. These aren’t just words. They mean something.

  14. jdm; no argument with that. But that said, as a potential juror, if I find a defendant is perjuring himself in arguments, the decimal point on the award moves to the right if I have anything to do with it.

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