Dear Fremont, About Lenin..and Twitter...and controversy...and job security and open discussion

 RantWoman wishes to thank KUOW for finally enlightening her about what the controversy is with now former Seattle Times columnist David Volodzo

Original Seattle Times Op-Ed about the Fremont Lenin

RantWoman particularly asks readers to note: the first time the issue of why Lenin was worse than Nazis was Volodzo QUOTING HIS GRANDFATHER who had life experience with both.

Apparently a Tweet restating something along those lines has been taken down and now Mr. Volodzo's Twitter stream is following an arc typical of many Twitter storms: multiple layers of misunderstanding, name calling, virtue signaling screeching, and gross ignorance about basic facts of history.

RantWoman has not felt obliged to wade too far into these posts. For one thing, RantWoman is already devoting far more time than she really should be to the addictive and sometimes supermarket tabloid level of sensationalism and disinformation available in many flavors if one is paying attention to anything related to Russia's assault on Ukraine. 

RantWoman is grateful for professional communications in two parts of RantWoman's life early in the Russian "special military operation:" Messaging something like "we know people with many different views live and work in Seattle. Let's all work to live well together and to maintain professional standards about the work we do."

This week RantWoman's own social media output in various fora has been fairly repetitive: horrific interethnic relations and strategically obtuse political meddling in military affairs are why Russia is getting clobbered in Ukraine. #UltraMAGA House leadership is trying very hard to put the same dynamics in action for the US military.

And by the way, AL Sen. Tommy Tuberville is also drawing more ire than the Fremont Lenin

As an aside, RantWoman strongly encourages readers willing to wade into social media streams to try to suss out the precise meaning of the argot of these posts.  Anyone tempted to take personally any slang or invective flung at them, just don't. It's not worth it unless you think you have a prayer of pulling conversation in some constructive direction.

Back to the Fremont Lenin, at least temporarily.

A previous post about statues with links to other Lenin statue themed posts

The KUOW broadcast mentioned previous removal of a statue in Volunteer Park honoring the daughters of the Confederacy. RantWoman did not feel urgent need to remove that statue partly because she has known two members of that organization who are glad to live in Seattle where there is room to have mixed feelings about the heritage the statue represents.

Finally, RantWoman has never been an editor of anything but her own blog. That said, RantWoman respectfully dissents from many voices in her Twitter stream: RantWoman would NOT have fired Mr. Volodzo, at least not on the first pass.

Word.