“I had the same experience.”
After years of volunteer work, taking vacation days to teach a “genius” class of bright kids from our church school (itself clearly a social crime in the brave, new and disgusting “Beneath the Wheel” world of leveling education), I was told I had to undergo vetting for criminal behavior. I told them to go to hell, a place they profess a deep knowlege of. Others, more compliant, will take my place, and argue that it is not so bad, and well intended. Like helping the Jews by resettling them in the East, perhaps?
The mark of the socialist is to classify, since that is simplier than having to think. Thus to the nazi, Jews were a class of subhumans, and to Pol Pot’s murder squads, those who wore glasses were intellectuals, thus a threat to the perfect agrarian society, and should be shot. To the racketeers of the Left, white men, who largely were the inventive and operational core (for whatever reason) during most of the development of Western Society have to be the class of oppressors (although very few ever were). But why? Because that is where the money is! Western Culture brought us the toilet, the telephone, antibiotics, photography, ships of the sea and air, institutionalized curiosity (a.k.a. Science) and the engineering that makes science useful. It made freedom possible, because it made us rich (well, overall). But like the Nazi’s, who went after the Jews with invented claptrap and insane ideas, because the Jews were where the money was, the rise of the sensitivity culture is a piracy culture, an extortionist racket.
At the root of this piracy is the legal system, which has developed an infuriating, disproportionate ability to collect damages beyond all proportion. Thus churches and corporations, being largely productive(the magic word is “have assets”) are thrown open to ruin by the disconnect between the jury awards and reason, since the ethical spine of the jurors themselves is the pivot. Most jurors are well meaning, but suckers for spending other people’s money (as are, co-incidentally, your governments, which in the midst of a developing depression, want an even larger division of your labor…why should (socialist) public pensions and salaries and other comforts be inconvenienced by your troubles?).
What has really created a problem is that as socialist dogma in the public schools spreads it has infected jury pools with irresponsible, self-absorbed free-lunch types. At least in part because of this, sexual abuses, and God forbid, personal slights and perceived unkindness, which we all know will occur from time to time, become the fodder for disproportionate and destructive awards extracted from well-meaning and/or productive organizations. Small wonder then that the “touchy-feely” elements of the legal rackets promptly step forward with antidotes for the very venoms they spew. The price is reasonable! Just a few thousand dollars per session, or per backgrounder, plus the decency, dignity and presumption of innoncence once promised to us as citizens, and always deserved by decent people. So what if you get thrown under the bus by the indifference of law and the vile greed of the hyperbolic, extortinate left: on the one hand they have the opportunity to extravagantly loot productive organizations, on the other to to make money immunizing against lawsuits. What’s not to like?
This degrades society and wastes resources, but it is easier for institutions and corporations to become the handmaidens of fraud-peddling social engineers, abusing and insulting volunteers or employees, rather than take a principled stand against this abuse.
This is truly a high tech middle ages that is evolving. The age of reason is over.
h/t to PiperPaul