Only in liberal cities like Seattle could a museum exhibit on hate trigger more…hate. Take the latest from Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum as a prime example of this.

The Wing Luke Museum is located in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Why did museum workers decide to walk out and take the rest of the day off last week? Because of “Zionist language” within the latest exhibit entitled “Confronting Hate Together”.

The “Confronting Hate Together” exhibit is a collaboration between the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS). From WSJHS:

Inspired by the 2022 ‘Confronting Hate 1937-1952’ exhibit at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library, Confronting Hate Together is produced in joint partnership with the Black Heritage Society of Washington State, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience around the common themes of hate experienced by each of these communities alongside community responses. While the New York Historical Society centered their exhibit around a groundbreaking multimedia campaign in 1937 to combat growing anti-Semitism before, during, and after the Holocaust, the Confronting Hate Together exhibit borrows elements of that program to create a contemporary portrayal of racism, hate and bigotry and community collective action through stories localized in this region. The goal of the exhibit is to educate communities and empower them to combat the rising tide of hate and racial violence in our communities today.”-WSJHS

Heaven forbid the Confronting Hate Together focus solely on the Holocaust like the New York Historical Society did. They would be promoting full-on Zionism, then, I suppose. (We will get to this in a minute.) Instead, the modern adaptation of the Confronting Hate Together exhibit includes collective themes of racism and hate which impact Blacks, Asian Pacific Americans and Jews in the Seattle metro. From a perspective that Seattle is somewhat of a melting-pot of these groups, sure, I get this. The museum workers, however, were not having any of it. Why? Because they felt the verbiage in the exhibit “conflated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitsm”.

One particular portion of the exhibit staff took issue with was a panel from the Jewish Historical Society. The panel starts by saying, ‘Today, anti-Semitism is often disguised as anti-Zionism,” and includes examples such as the phrase Stop the killing spray-painted on a Mercer Island synagogue, ‘as if the Jews of Mercer Island could control the actions of the Israeli government.'”-Mary Murphy and Catalina Gaitán, The Seattle Times

So, if we’re getting this straight, 26 museum workers walked out because they could not handle the truth in pictures. First off, I would venture to say that some Jews who live on (very liberal) Mercer Island may very well support the progressive agenda and not be all-in with Israel’s actions but this is mere speculation. Regardless, defacing a house of worship-any house of worship-is a demonstration of hate. Whomever spray-painted this synagogue has clumped every, single person who practices Judaism in as the “bad guy”. Would the thugs who spray-painted this synagogue have scrolled the word “Rapists” on a mosque on October 8th of 2023? We think not. But if someone had done this, the principle remains the same=this is judgmental hatred. There is no reasoning with these museum workers, however. The ugly truth of their beliefs, their ideologies and their hate was too much for them to bear. They took to Instagram to explain their “noble” actions:

We love the Wing Luke Museum and are consistently honored to steward the stories of our community members, many of whom have experienced the destructive harm of white supremacy, genocide, and violence that parallels the experience of Palestinians today. Our solidarity with Palestine should be reflected in our AA/NHPI institutions. It sets a dangerous precedent of platforming colonial, white supremacist perspectives and goes against the Museum’s mission as a community-based museum advancing racial and social equity.”

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According to these sheltered, self-important, pseudo-intellectual Seatttleites, illustrating a photo of a synagogue that was spray-painted with hateful words is not anti-Semitic, it’s anti-Zionistic and that’s all cool in their book. Spray-paint away, oh sympathizers of Palestine! How dare anyone conflate the two. They are upset that their hatred towards another group has been called-out for what it is and they can’t take it. So they gathered up their butt-hurt, wittle feeeewwwings and went home in the hopes of happier days. Hey, Pride Month is coming. These dumbasses won’t stay put for long.

The museum had this response:

After closing the Museum this week to listen and earnestly engage in dialog with our staff, the Museum looks forward to opening our doors at a future date so that we can continue serving our community in other needed capacities during this time. Please look for updates from us.”-The Wing Luke Museum

Engaging in dialogue? Dialogue is the very thing these people are afraid of. Dialogue would involve all 26 of them, sitting captive and hearing ideas they don’t like instead of taking an extended Memorial Day weekend (good luck getting them to explain Memorial Day). Dialogue would be actually sitting them down and making them watch documentaries on the Holocaust. Dialogue would involve them using their pea-sized brains to actually think and converse, respectfully, with those who may have a different opinion. These people do not want dialogue. They are petulant, overgrown toddlers.

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I tend to be in agreement. Fire them all. While it was well within their rights to walk out in protest for the delusional lies they believe-AHEM-I mean, their personal truths, I’d say the museum is well within their right to find workers who actually have some mental capacity to understand why vandalizing a house of worship is a form of hate.

Instead of “stewarding” relationships in the Seattle community to bridge the gap between racism, hate and bigotry by keeping the Wing Luke Museum open this past weekend, these clowns shut it down. There is no dialogue and discourse with these people. Their victimhood is more important than anyone else’s. They are upset, they are offended. They walk out.

Unbelievable. Let’s hope they stay out and the Wing Luke museum hires some new employees.

Photo Credit: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons/Cropped