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Are they going to file suit? Genuine question because “DEI = discrimination” is now a coordinated legal strategy, reinforced by EEOC messaging and a different set of enforcement priorities.
I don't think he even knew it happened.
Fair. That’s why anecdotes can’t carry a national argument. With the EEOC increasingly framing DEI as discrimination, anyone who believes they were discriminated against should file a complaint and bring evidence.
I knew of a high powered internship program, which was not advertised this way, but ended up being minority and women only. And we're not talking Chinese or Indian, you had to be a "disadvantaged minority".
It was very obvious, from looking at the photo of the interns.
If it wasn’t advertised that way, a photo can’t prove discrimination. It only describes outcomes. The real question is what criteria/pipeline produced that group of interns. If it was explicit, there should be documentation or a complaint. My take on the broader pattern is here: #1289513
I can't comment much on the 70s and 80s, I can only comment on what I see in my own personal experience.
And while I would agree that blacks and other minorities have long suffered systemic injustices and prejudices, in my own experience I have only seen outright out-in-the-open discrimination against white men. (In my workplace, I observed a white man get taken off a list of candidates for no other reason than them being a white man.)
Thus, while we ought to call out the sins and injustices of the past, we also need to recognize that society's response to that might now have gone too far. Or at least we need to understand that many perceive it to have gone too far, including people who have no connection to the Christian right, and those people are now reacting against it.
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