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So let's see if I understand this correctly. The Attorney General's position is that women can't serve coffee as fast as men?
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Missouri sued Starbucks this week, alleging the chain’s push to hire and promote more people of color and women violated anti-discrimination laws and slowed down coffee orders.
The lawsuit, filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, opens up a new legal front in the war on diversity in corporate America. It aims to strike down the most common diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that Starbucks and other businesses use to expand opportunities for minorities, women and historically underrepresented groups.
Maga: Only white people should serve black coffee.So let's see if I understand this correctly. The Attorney General's position is that women can't serve coffee as fast as men?
Minorities are even slower than women.So let's see if I understand this correctly. The Attorney General's position is that women can't serve coffee as fast as men?
The glass ceiling has become a subfloor.Minorities are even slower than women.
So as they have time to waste on stuff like this can we assume all other problems in Missouri are solved?More far right flooding the zone with BS.
What about minority women? And who's got the stopwatch out to measure all this inefficiency?Minorities are even slower than women.
One gets the sense you don't understand what racial discrimination means.So let's see if I understand this correctly. The Attorney General's position is that women can't serve coffee as fast as men?
Racial discrimination should not be confused with affirmative action.One gets the sense you don't understand what racial discrimination means.
And what is that? Affirmative action is, for all intents and purposes, well intentioned racial discrimination.Racial discrimination should not be confused with affirmative action.
SO, a white woman can not serve a drink as fast as a white man?One gets the sense you don't understand what racial discrimination means.
Racial discrimination should not be confused with affirmative action.
No it’s not. I worked investigating civil rights complaints, so I was familiar with what affirmative action meant, at least back then. For example, putting the phrase “Equal Opportunity Employer” in want ads qualified as affirmative action. So did choosing to advertise positions in the old Jet or Ebony magazines. Ditto including females and minorities in your business’s “here’s our team ready to serve you” - type pictures that companies often show. None of this was required, and discrimination against males and whites was also outlawed and investigated.And what is that? Affirmative action is, for all intents and purposes, well intentioned racial discrimination.
Here's how it works in the real world...
A company notices that:
1. In an area with a high indigenous population only 10% of applicants are from that group.
2. In an area where half the population is women only 15% of applicants are female.
3. In an area with an older population only 5% of applicants are retirees*.
That is a huge untapped pool of talent. So the company seeks ways to engage with these underrepresented groups to increase applications from them.
They still choose the best people.
*McDonald's Canada noted this in the 80s and took steps to recruit retirees who wanted something to do part time. It was very successful for them.
Irrelevant to an employer. They want to increase applicants from the underrepresented groups, not do a stupid sociology study.In your scenario, lets look at number one, WHY are only 10% of the applicantws from that group?
Therein lies the rub. That is the claim of nearly every DEI program, yet some are later proven to have made choices based on skin color.They still choose the best people.
Still better than the way Trump chooses only the best people.Therein lies the rub. That is the claim of nearly every DEI program, yet some are later proven to have made choices based on skin color.
Irrelevant to an employer. They want to increase applicants from the underrepresented groups, not do a stupid sociology study.
Then let's back up. How do you define "Affirmative Action?"No it’s not. I worked investigating civil rights complaints, so I was familiar with what affirmative action meant, at least back then. For example, putting the phrase “Equal Opportunity Employer” in want ads qualified as affirmative action. So did choosing to advertise positions in the old Jet or Ebony magazines. Ditto including females and minorities in your business’s “here’s our team ready to serve you” - type pictures that companies often show. None of this was required, and discrimination against males and whites was also outlawed and investigated.
Company may have a (perhaps unjustified) bad reputation among the group. Back some decades ago when I worked on civil rights cases in Colorado, Coors beer had gained a bad reputation among minorities, as Mr. Coord had reportedly told his white employees to write opposing pending civil rights laws in the 1960s. (Colorado Chicanos used to boycott Coors.). The one of three Coors companies that was unionized was much more integrated. In time things changed for the better.In your scenario, lets look at number one, WHY are only 10% of the applicantws from that group?
Bu ... bu ... bu ... but Trump!Still better than the way Trump chooses only the best people.
Company may have a (perhaps unjustified) bad reputation among the group. Back some decades ago when I worked on civil rights cases in Colorado, Coors beer had gained a bad reputation among minorities, as Mr. Coord had reportedly told his white employees to write opposing pending civil rights laws in the 1960s. (Colorado Chicanos used to boycott Coors.). The one of three Coors companies that was unionized was much more integrated. In time things changed for the better.
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