My experience from doing maybe a couple of hundred EEO cases is that people are just unable to see that they actually have shortcomings (For which I blame our culture of prizes all 'round and social promotions) and instead can only attribute the fact that something bad happened to the evil racism/sexism/bigotry of everyone else. Maybe one time in every twenty cases the complainant was actually cynically using the system to get something, like money or a promotion, though management thought that was the case every time (Kind of an inversion of the same blindness the complainants had, really). Maybe one time in twenty there actually was some level of racism/sexism/bigotry involved in whatever had happened to prompt the complaint. Eighteen times out of twenty, it was the complainant being insufficiently-skilled, lazy, or obnoxious/combative/attitude-challenged, but the complainant just mentally could not own his or her actual responsibility for the situation.
I'd double H-5 this if I could! As you suggest, it's blindness that's pretty pervasive. IMO, it's as much a matter of
won't as of
can't. And our everybody's a winner and awesome culture punishes those who are, deceives those who are not into thinking the world works that way (or should), and fosters that tendency toward blindness of one's own faults.
This turdball freak seems to have suffered from the same 'Can't be me, must be them' idiocy. From all reports, he was as much fun to work with as mercury fulminate in a nitroglycerin factory, but when his own combative and unpredictable a-hole behavior caught up with him, well, it must be because of 'Racism' that he was fired. The exploitive and divisive way Obama and Holder have handled every racial incident during their tenures has only poured gas on this particular flavor of immature thinking.
From the sketchy news reports I read and heard yesterday about the guy, he had gone the claiming-discrimination-after-being-fired route at least twice (the first of the two in 1999). I suspect those were not the only times for both, and that he was at least partly
Victimhood System player.
From what I've read, the guy's skills as a "reporter" while at the VA station were on the level of a high school school newspaper reporter. And as you say, he was a hyper-sensitive victim-player. The latter not only made him unpleasant to work with, but with our modern
Victimhood System and his double minority-victim "status" (being black and gay), that made him a danger to any employer and to every fellow employee. Who wants to work with a dude who might transmogrify talking about the food at a family picnic into a huge verbal blow-up and a complaint to HR (with a threat to escalate it into an EEOC complaint if he didn't get his way)?!
