Lawsuit says city messed with his Family and Medical Leave Act requests in retaliation for criticizing anti-white “Race and Social Justice Initiative” training he was forced to attend.
Critical race theory is more than just the employee training framework inside Seattle’s Human Services Department, according to a longtime white social worker who received HSD’s “maximum achievement” award just three years into his employment.
It was the basis for years of race-based promotions and treatment of program applicants, verbal abuse, retaliation and even violent threats.
Joshua Diemert is seeking $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages from the City of Seattle for, among other things, refusing to process his Family and Medical Leave Act request last year after he criticized the city’s Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI), at which point the U.S. Department of Labor stepped in to force compliance.
Years earlier, during an earlier FMLA stint, Diemert allegedly faced “unrelenting coercion and racial harassment” from his supervisor to give up his “white privilege” by resigning from a lead role so a racial minority could be promoted.
Faced with no support from higher-ups, he gave up the role, and the city promoted “two people of color with no supervisory experience,” who required constant hand-holding from Diemert to do his former role, according to his Title VII and 14th Amendment lawsuit against the city and Mayor Bruce Harrell.
Praise the Lord! When black people complain you tell us if we don’t like things we should go back where we came from. When we tell you the same thing you whine and cry like little girls. You are weaklings who were temporarily empowered by your weaponry, but ultimately you are feeble both physically and mentally.