Rantz: Tree Equity job lands you $60.83 an hour from city of Seattle

Jul 2, 2024, 5:55 PM BY JASON RANTZ.1/2

The city of Seattle is offering a six-figure salary for a Tree Equity Initiative Manager. If you show a bias towards a cedar tree over a spruce, your arborism isn’t welcome and this job isn’t for you.

The position earns up to $60.83 an hour and allows activists to undoenvironmental injustices disproportionately impacting “communities of color.” We’re supposed to pretend this is due to racism.

The Tree Equity movement is part of a tapestry of contrived social justice causes pursued byProgressive activists seeking hero status. It fits under the umbrella cause of “environmental racism.” This movement attempts to more evenly distribute trees to underserved communities. The lack of tree canopies and green space in black, Asian and Latino-majority communities is due to institutional racism, according to progressives. (KEK)

Why is Seattle obsessed with shoehorning equity into tree planting?

In Seattle, city leadership can’t merely plant more trees in areas where they’re lacking. They have to make a political point. Meanwhile, they push away qualified applicants.

There’s obviously nothing wrong with planting more trees and offering green space where little exists. This benefits communities, regardless of the race or ethnicity of the neighbors. It’s a worthwhile cause,even if it’s less important than addressing the homelessness and drug crisis crushing some Seattle neighborhoods.

But this reeks of unbearable virtue signaling. Indeed, as part of the position, as is the case for all city employees,the Tree Equity Initiative Manager “must play a role in ending institutional and structural racism,”as defined by the city of Seattle.

A worthy cause buried in virtue signaling

The city of Seattle is obsessed with approaching everything through an activist lens. And it’s signaling to conservative-minded potential employees that you shouldn’t submit an application.

This strategy allows city leaders and staff to earn social currencyfor being part of a progressive cause-celebre. They dutifully put their progressive-minded commitments in press releases, blogs, or on their personal social media accounts so that their like-minded, woke echo chamber of friends can celebrate them as heroes.

At the same time, it helpskeep the “wrong kind” of applicant from the position.

The city of Seattledoes not want conservative staffers. They want like-minded ideologues, even if that conflicts with their supposed commitment to diversity.

When an initiative is more about signaling one’s commitment to an ideological cause,it’s destined to fail=.

And it may be why city, county and state projects take so long to complete. Rather than focus on the actual work, there’s precious time wasted signaling one’s politics so that they’re given credit.It’s ideological narcissism.

At the end of the day, this is a position where one oversees tree planting. It’s a job dressed up in ideologically-aligned titles.

But it’s as silly as calling someone the Director of First Impressions when they’re just the front desk attendant.

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A silly title for unserious activists

Despite the silly title, the job is a serious one.

The job posting says the Tree Equity Initiative Manager will manage a “$12M federal grant initiativeto plan, prioritize, and coordinate activities” around planting trees around the city of Seattle. The job offers priority to the Beacon Hill and Chinatown-International District neighborhoods. (Guaranteed the leader and staff will corruptly siphon off the grant money, different races will pretend they are ideologues and grift to get the money)

The role lasts for about five years and is housed in the Office of Sustainability and Environment. It’s tied to the Washington State Tree Equity Collaborative, which was introduced in May 2023 to “enhance urban forestry programs over the next three years, with a focus onincreasing tree canopy equityand engaging cities, community organizations and stakeholders.”

But with the silly job title, the city of Seattle isn’t coming off very seriously. Why would a qualified, conservative applicant find this job appealing or accepting? The city of Seattle already has a reputation for hostility towards people who don’t think like them.

For such an important position with serious responsibilities, the city should hope to attract the best candidates, not the one farthest to the Left.

=Tree Equity in a job title is about attracting superficial activists to a job that isn’t glamourous,and won’t be all that exciting to someone who is better suited for holding a sign with a bumper sticker slogan, waving it at the headquarters of some big corporation.

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I’m sure trees are very worried about discrimination about other trees being left out.Thank God mother nature didn’t create ideological trees in nature altogether.

Someone serious has to take over the state of WA and recreate it with Sane People running it. The state is too beautiful to be destroyed by NUTS and Marxists