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which organizations were these? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act doesn't carve out any exceptions.
by rchaud 9mo ago
which organizations were these? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act doesn't carve out any exceptions.
- tbrownaw 9mo agoIt also doesn't allow for the whole affirmative action / disparate impact approach, yet that's how it got applied in practice for quite a while.
- pamcake 9mo agoCool. How many HR departments do you believe had the Civil Rights Act as part of their onboarding in the 80s?
- will4274 9mo agoWell, Harvard for one. They are the one named in the suit. You can also look at the long list of amici briefs and consolidated cases.
- assertion_0xa 9mo agoGoogle is notorious for pulling this and numerous people have come forward pointing it out and the CEO of IBM was on air back in 2021 (?) pointing out that any white men who have a problem with not being promoted can essentially pound sand. This is/was an incredibly common behavior in tech, and anyone who says otherwise is being willfully argumentative or is incredibly isolated.
- lern_too_spel 9mo agoAnecdotally, I have heard the exact opposite. The one thing that is in agreement is that the people promoted in management are uniformly incompetent.
- sanity 9mo agoAny organization with a DEI department, which is most of them. It was pervasive.
- Starman_Jones 9mo agoIn the 80's? In banking? Citation needed.
- j4kp07 9mo ago[dead]
- Auracle 9mo agoThe book that's being referenced?
- Starman_Jones 9mo agoThat would be circular reasoning - we know Adams' claim is true because DEI was pervasive in the 80's, and we know DEI was pervasive in the 80's because Scott Adams said so.