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The author mentions their Aspergers; which means the content of those emails, such as comments like 'stupid,' could be seen as coded discrimination. In nearly a
by nness 7y ago
The author mentions their Aspergers; which means the content of those emails, such as comments like 'stupid,' could be seen as coded discrimination. In nearly all of Europe, intellectual disabilities are a topic of non-discrimination legislation.
Ignoring the legal arm-chairing; universities and colleges retaining staff who discriminate students based on intellectual disabilities could face down some bad PR.
- mirages 7y agoIn France (Law n°2018-493 of June 20, 2018 ) you are not permitted to make any race/illness/political/jugdment statement inside any database system (paper or eletronic) be it public or private
- istjohn 7y agoI wouldn't think an email would be considered to be inside a "database system."
- ape4 7y agoNot to us, but its info stored in a structured way so... maybe legally.
- Shivetya 7y agoI would hope not. How can one's demand for information supersede another persons right to privacy in their communications? So will this come down to any email which passes through an officially recognized organization, be it government or corporation or educational, as open to inspection and possible litigation? Talk about an Orwellian nightmare
- brokenmachine 7y agoYou have it backwards. If the government/public corporations keep everything secret, that's the Orwellian nightmare. The person you are suggesting has the right to privacy is acting in an official capacity, paid for by public money. These are not personal emails. Just that fact that one person is bringing a litigation, is not a valid reason to mark everything top secret. If you make everything in the machinations of government secret, then these things (and much worse) will still happen, but there will be no transparency or recourse. That is the worst possible outcome.
- lm28469 7y agoI wouldn't go down that road ... You can fit a definition of "stupid" and have Asperger without the former being caused by the latter. Is saying your black coworker under-performs a form a racism ? Your female coworker being stupid would be sexism (but only if you're a man of course) ?
- OtterEcho 7y agoAt the risk of missing the big picture, I think comments on their intelligence correlates to discrimination due to intellectual disabilities in a way race and gender would not.