How Jobs and Awkward White Men Are Destroying a City

Article here. Excerpt:

'What would happen if someone posted an article about how a particular ethnic group was poised to destroy a city? Imagine for a moment the outcry and outrage that would flow in the blogosphere if a columnist claimed, for example, that Chinese immigrants were ruining a city’s culture or that a particular company, dominated by women, was consigning a large American city to “doom” by causing housing prices to skyrocket.

Well, that’s exactly what Geek Wire posted this last week in an article titled, ‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future, except the target of criticism was awkward white males who work for Amazon. Somehow the discussion about housing and affordability in Seattle has taken a turn toward a kind of passive progressive bigotry that vilifies job growth and stereotypes an entire company. Amazon is certainly a big employer, but are all the jobs being created really going to spell the doom of the city? Here’s the hyperbolic characterization of Amazon employees in the post:

"The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual."

Wow. The article cites various statistics about the number of jobs being created as a bad thing(45,000 according to the article) and dwells on other statistics that apparently should outrage the reader.'