Can anyone make out what Seattle Metro Transit's investigation discovered and what the conclusions to the actual 'incident' are? To read this it sounds like their investigation consisted of asking employees what they thought about the alleged incident.

Metro responds to investigation with action

Today, Metro completed the investigation into an incident at our South Facilities Maintenance building in which a statue depicting of a person of color was found in front of the flagpole. An image of the statue and its surroundings appeared on social media and the news, evoking racist symbolism.

Many employees have shared with Metro's management that this incident is indicative of a larger, systemic issue of racist language and acts at Metro. Employees have reported that their colleagues are not being held accountable regarding harassment and discrimination.

We want to acknowledge that pain and truth, accept and apologize, and make the required changes to our agency to prevent it from happening again. Transit Facilities Division leadership will now take deliberate action to address the people directly involved.

Metro's next step as an agency, however, extends far beyond this singular incident. We're committed to treating the root cause, not just this event as a symptom.

“Our process is to recognize, reconcile, and restore. In response to this incident and the feedback we received, we recognize that we must take action to improve our culture and climate,” said Brent Jones, Metro's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer and Assistant General Manager for Strategy and Partnerships. “We're now going to move quickly to reconcile what the outstanding issues are. Our goal is to restore the relationships with those who have been currently or historically harmed, and restore the workplace to a safe and belonging culture.”

Metro continues to strongly encourage all employees with any reports of protected class discrimination, harassment, or retaliation to contact the Office of EEO, Equity, and Inclusion, even if the reports are older, so that we may address them. In addition to addressing these issues from human resources and legal standpoints, sharing and listening to personal stories and truths are fundamental steps to authentically engage in reconciliation and restorative practice in our journey toward being an anti-racist organization.

Metro is seeking to work with our labor partners in building and strengthening our equity and social justice efforts, and in creating and maintaining a healthy organization that embodies our values – one where all employees feel welcome, included, comfortable, and safe in the workplace.

“This incident has jump-started our commitment to the anti-racist work we started long ago,” said Jones. “It's not easy work and we recognize the challenges ahead. But it's important work and we're diving in.”

Our process is to recognize, reconcile, and restore

Because nothing says racial sensitivity like alliterative palliatives.

I found out there are loops in my shoelaces... on both of my shoes... Clearly a reference to lynching.

The hate is everywhere.

So what happened? I can't figure it out.

But it does sound like something out of the 1920-30s Soviet factory investigation of alleged sabotage by bourgeois wreckers and foreign spies. While the accident was most likely the result of some woke proletarian's incompetence.

I do not understand. Should the person in front of the flagpole have been one not of color? Should the person have been behind or to the side of the flagpole? Was the flagpole itself the problem? Or is this a contest in which readers are requested to send in their various interpretations and the most outlandish wins a prize and the opportunity to develop the interpretation into a feature article?

RedDiaperette wrote:I do not understand. Should the person in front of the flagpole have been one not of color? Should the person have been behind or to the side of the flagpole? Was the flagpole itself the problem? Or is this a contest in which readers are requested to send in their various interpretations and the most outlandish wins a prize and the opportunity to develop the interpretation into a feature article?

Quite obviously,товарищи, this story is a cleverly disguised version of comrade Rorschach's test designed to weed out subversives in our midst. The incident is laden with racist symbolism (flagpole? Let's also include comrade Freud!) but is vague enough that one may make any interpretation one wishes. Only the korrect interpretations, however, will be allowed and those interpreting otherwise have a cell reserved at the KMTC.

- SK

The Peoples Republic of Seattle is in Washingtonstan, which is one state away from the Peoples Republic of Oregonstan, where the oldest racist law on the books lasted until 1990's or later. It was illegal to be Black-frican American and live in Oregonstan right up until that time abouts.

This is PacNorthwest Comrades! We are very Progressive™!!!!

Don't question or ELSE!!!!

C.H.A.Z. A C.H.A.D. TODAY!!!

Minitrue wrote:I found out there are loops in my shoelaces... on both of my shoes... Clearly a reference to lynching.

The hate is everywhere.

... aaand - black shoes, Komrade?

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:

Minitrue wrote:I found out there are loops in my shoelaces... on both of my shoes... Clearly a reference to lynching.

The hate is everywhere.

... aaand - black shoes, Komrade?

Saddle shoes, dearest Genosse. Note how the black overarches the white.

RedDiaperette wrote:

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:

Minitrue wrote:... loops in my shoelaces... on both of my shoes... a reference to lynching ...

... aaand - black shoes, Komrade?

Saddle shoes, dearest Genosse. Note how the black overarches the white.

(... giggle-titter .. he-he-he ...)
just wonder if Minitrue paraded in these (note the noosed shoelace!):



if so, current proglomasses will soon korrektify our Komrade Minister:



but anyway, this here - lace-free! - is his future in Dar al-Brusseliyah
(yep - no noose, no hate, only five times a day to bow towards Kaaba):

U.S. Naval Academy Bans Rope and Knots

What is ANY public service building doing with anything --- especially the Amerikkkan Flag - tied to ropes and flagpoles?

The racist statue near that flagpole, with its ropes and knots dangling. is a whole different outrage.

Stick to the fundamentals. Loose whatever is tied down with a rope and a knot, comrades. Everything is unmoored as of yesterday's Current Truth™.

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:




but anyway, this here - lace-free! - is his future in Dar al-Brusseliyah
(yep - no noose, no hate, only five times a day to bow towards Kaaba):

I wonder, what future would be the bestest, dear Genosse:
-the socialist jackboot of EUSSR or
-the sandals of Europistan

Not that we will have any say in the matter of course...

I refer to the German Unperson Michael Klonovsky:

"With a certain anticipation, one expects the day on which our gays, lesbians and feminists will enter the final battle against the Muslim machos."("Mit einer gewissen Vorfreude erwartet man den Tag, an welchem unsere Schwulen, Lesben und Feministinnen zum Endkampf gegen die muslimischen Machos antreten.")

Minitrue wrote:... I wonder, what future would be the bestest, dear Genosse:
-the socialist jackboot of EUSSR or
-the sandals of Europistan ...

Hah, a two-stroker it will be.

First: Farcically goosestepping EUSSR (increasingly soft-soaping Dar al-Islam).
Next: (barely a half-century later) Like a stink poke piercing in time-lapse the surface of a rotten pile at twilight and starting to diffuse its scent over the flabby birthbed, Muhammadan paradise and its props - kafirun, dhimma, jizya & Co - spill all over (western) Dar al-EUrabia.


P.S.
Klonovsky - bingo!

("Ich komme aus der DDR, ich komme aus der Zukunft!"
("I come from the GDR, I come from the future!")

Among the (few) interesting German wordsmiths of our time. Writes usually in complex German, always precise and elegant. A sharp observer of - especially - the western Kulturkampf (and here, its Islam flank in particular). In that regard, he is the German Raspail & Houellebecq, in one person. And intellectually, our Douglas Murray.

And, of course*: a major hate object & voodoo doll of breite zivilgesellschaftliche Bündnisse - German official Newspeak for the total of our Progloleftish Kollektive (from Ideo-Exec-Apparat via NGO-MSM-...-Agit down to foot-stomping Proglo-masses).

* last not least, given that Klonovsky plays some - intellectual - role in AfD, the single real, and reason-based, opposition to our overarching polit-madness.

(micro-geography (with nano-politics in background))
(elucidating curio, re Klonovsky, ex-DDR, AfD (above))

Current poll results: AfD votes in coming election (2021):