It’s been a long time since I read Ayn Rand, but what’s going on with the Seattle police department seems very Randish. <\/p>\n
Seattle tests prospective fire lieutenants on woke ideology, critical race theory: report<\/a> <\/p>\n Prospective fire lieutenants are also tested on the entirety of “Both Sides of the Fire Lane: Memoirs of a Transgender Firefighter: by Bobbie Scopa, according to the exam bibliography obtained by the Free Beacon, as well as the 800-page memoir “A Leader\u2019s Guide to Unconscious Bias and Fighting Fire” by a female firefighter.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t just the firehouse brass being tested on woke ideology \u2014 fireboat engineers in Seattle are being tested on Robin DiAngelo\u2019s book “Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education” as well as handouts covering “structural interplay between all oppressions.”<\/p>\n Retired Seattle firefighter Wayne Johnson told the Free Beacon this “stuff has nothing to do with firefighting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In Rand’s book, industries died because they focused on stupid social theories instead of on such basic things as competence and productivity. You were rewarded for your views, not for your capability of producing anything of value. <\/p>\n Wokeness will destroy this country unless we destroy it first. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a long time since I read Ayn Rand, but what’s going on with the Seattle police department seems very Randish. Seattle tests prospective fire lieutenants on woke ideology, critical race theory: report Prospective fire lieutenants are also tested on the entirety of “Both Sides of the Fire Lane: Memoirs of a Transgender Firefighter: … Continue reading “Atlas is shrugging in Seattle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}