A professional clarinetist went mega-viral today--and drew support from several members of the Trump administration--claiming he was "canceled for resisting DEI" in 2020 and denied a job at a different symphony last year for the same reason. There's, uh, more to it.
The event that got Zimmermann fired, as @aaronsibarium reported back in 2021, was an interpersonal meltdown between Zimmermann and a couple black orchestra players. They lodged HR complaints against him; he thought he was being railroaded. But that wasn't the actual crisis event—
@aaronsibarium What brought the whole thing to a head and sent Zimmermann packing was a "manic" email he sent one of the guys he was feuding with and human resources that HR apparent read as threatening. Here's how Sibarium described it in 2021:
@aaronsibarium This is the situation that the Knoxville symphony got wind of and decided that--excellent clarinet playing or no excellent clarinet playing--they'd pass. You tell me whether that sounds like DEI or "maybe not the guy whose last employer was worried he'd shoot up the place."
@aaronsibarium It's totally possible Zimmermann WAS given an unfair shake throughout his snafu with a few other orchestra members. Sibarium's piece suggests as much. It was 2020; a lot of crazy nonsense was going on. But that doesn't mean he was fired for being a white guy, as his post implies.
@aaronsibarium I wrote all this up at length in @willsommer's False Flag newsletter at @BulwarkOnline today -- give it a read:
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@aaronsibarium @willsommer @BulwarkOnline The clarinetist weighs in with more context on his email. Again, every word of this could be true, but it would still give the lie to the idea he was fired/not hired later due to DEI policies that would give him an actionable civil rights claim.
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