wicked_sprite Marshal • a day ago
I think the victimization sub-culture that the left enables is a huge contributor to these people's failure to emotionally develop. They don't have to.
Case in point. I was pushed out of a promotion and a job by a SJW co-worker. She was a nice enough girl on the surface, but a hot mess underneath. She was in her mid-40's, childless not by choice, married to a loser man who claimed to be disabled due to mental illness, yet didn't quality for disability. He was her third husband and he sat around all day playing video games while she worked long hours. (She did have a strong work ethic, I will give her that.) She was all up in all sorts of causes, and felt hugely oppressed as a woman, despite having a well paying professional job and working for a female VP.
Anyway, one day over lunch she mentioned she was an unabashed communist and felt it was largely misunderstood. I told her I felt that the millions dead via communism was reason to feel it was morally wrong and a political dead end. She bristled, "You're saying I am a morally wrong person!?!" I replied, "No, I feel communism is a moral wrong."
She reported me to HR for assault. I kid you not. Now, this went nowhere mind you and the case was dropped for an astounding lack of evidence but not before the following happened:
1) All of my emails, Lync messages, and personal desk belongings were confiscated and searched for evidence. This was done very publically and created quite the office gossip.
2) I lost my promotion, as promotions cannot be given when HR violations are being investigated, and it took them two months to fully investigate, whereas my current job was also hanging in the balance.
3) My "assault" charge spread like wildfire throughout the company. Many people who didn't know either of us took sides. I was denied projects, respect, and even received a death threat in my mailbox. Over saying I felt communism was immoral, mind you. The whole thing blew up and people started believing I actually assaulted this woman. (I am also a woman in my mid-40's, so I'll let that also sink in.)
Eventually the charges were dropped but my reputation was ruined and I eventually left the company. I went from being a star employee in line for a promotion, to quitting under the pressure in just a few months.
Here's the icing on the cake. Apparently this woman goes on and on about how SHE was persecuted and assaulted for her beliefs. She really believed justice was served here. She really, REALLY feels she was the victim because disagreement now equals assault in her eyes. This is what we are dealing with. My story is almost unbelievable I know. I wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened to me, so I won't be hurt if you, the reader, don't believe it either.
I'm doing well now in a far less PC environment, but I'll admit I'm scared. I can't lose another job. We need my income to support my family. I keep quiet and do and say what I am supposed to. It's only online under anonymous names that I will speak my mind.
So, are SJW's sociopath or just mal-adjusted? Does it matter? She won. I was crushed. She was rewarded. We will see more of the same as long as this tactic works for them. She's since leveled three more HR complaints against co-workers. The company doesn't dare let her go. And she gets to stay the victim too!!
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Marshal > wicked_sprite • a day ago
I think their self-reinforcing culture convinces people that normal issues are somehow elevated from disagreement to something actionable. This is awful, as is your story.
But mostly this occurs because they have figured out how to neuter any response. In a decent world that person would have been fired for trying to use the HR policy as a weapon. She should have feared this, but didn't. Your experience is much like the campus rape hysterics who are not a majority, but are effectively unopposed and thus never suffer consequence for their actions. This is because (a) they have been able to set the standards either through institutional control or through political / social pressure and (b) those on the left who disagree with their tactics won't actually fight them.
So key to resolving this issue is for people like Laura Kipnis to act - and for those of us who have been fighting this for decades to frame the issue widely so Kipnis et al don't get away with protecting themselves while leaving everyone else at risk.
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