How has no one filed a lawsuit with regards to these practices yet?
My last manager told me there was a "side pot" of raise money for diverse employees. Surely all it would take is one lawsuit to torpedo such a policy.
My last manager told me there was a "side pot" of raise money for diverse employees. Surely all it would take is one lawsuit to torpedo such a policy.
The court of public opinion is a lot better at fighting against things like this than the courts of law - it was really what brought down Jim Crow in the US (the law followed the popular opinion).
Interestingly enough, the Jim Crow laws (as awful as they were) were actually less racist than the outright race-based discrimination being used today, particularly against Asians. Jim Crow Laws were used against poor whites as well, something forgotten by many. Dr. Adolph Reed has made this point for years - https://goodbye.substack.com/p/adolph-reed-jr-jim-crow-racec.... His argument is that this is done to keep people's eyes off the prize in terms of class struggle, in order to make it all about identity.
Once you start implementing hiring quotas you need to be very careful, but right now you can probably get away with it unless someone is willing to take the risk to sue (it would probably destroy their reputation to do such a thing).
Because it's not really about diversity per se:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/elites-populists-...:
> His argument, in brief: “In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.” With the lost salience of luxury items, “the upper classes have found a clever solution to this problem: luxury beliefs. These are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.”
For standing, the plaintiff has to be someone who can demonstrate that they specifically were specifically harmed by these policies.
Maybe even harder, you have to find someone who is willing to take the heaps of public scrutiny that's going to come with claiming white victim-hood.
That's what discovery is for
Standing is: got laid off
Making a case: discovery would have to show evidence that they were fired for illegal reasons