Posted on 05/31/2023 7:57:51 AM PDT by lowbridge
Seattle Firefighters looking to advance in their careers to become fire lieutenants are being required to learn curriculum from social justice activists and books that espouse woke ideology.
The Seattle Department of Human Resources (SDHR) fire lieutenant test features books from several prominent progressive authors, such as critical race theory (CRT) author Ibram X. Kendi.
The required reading tested on by the SDHR to become a fire lieutenant includes controversial woke books, including the entirety of Kendi’s "How to be an Antiracist" as well as its introduction and acknowledgments, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
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’s Guide to Unconscious Bias and Fighting Fire" by a female firefighter.
It isn’t just the firehouse brass being tested on woke ideology — fireboat engineers in Seattle are being tested on Robin DiAngelo’s book "Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education" as well as handouts covering "structural interplay between all oppressions."
Retired Seattle firefighter Wayne Johnson told the Free Beacon this "stuff has nothing to do with firefighting."
"It has everything to do with social engineering," Johnson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
LOL...how do you expand "I was oppressed and everyday I was sexually harassed by evil white males" to 800 pages?
Let it burn.
This same type of thing is happening in the Officer corps of all branches of the military. If you want to advance these days, you need to be able to express woke ideology. We know a guy who is close to being promoted to General; the crap that he spouts these days is scary. He didn’t start out that way.
And by the way this type of ideology has been advocated for a long time now in other fire departments near Seattle as well.
No testing in fighting fires ?
It’s akin to how every program of study and training for every field in the USSR required mandatory lessons and tests in Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
You couldn’t become an engineer or a street sweeper without passing, even if towards the end, all involved treated it as a cynical exercise.
Throw water on a fire, what more do they need to know?
Question on the application may include, “Can you suck a hydrant through a fire hose”?
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