Imagine if a black person was explicitly denied a job because of the color of their skin and saying they shouldn’t sue because there’s already precedent that people can’t be discrimination against for skin color.
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realcaseyrollins 1 month ago
Bizarre. Seems almost identical to this lawsuit, helmed by the same firm: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/nascars-diversity-efforts-accused-of-bias-against-white-men
It doesn't make sense to me to launch to lawsuits in order to establish the exact same precedent. A gross waste of money if you ask me.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 month ago
Yeah, from what I’ve seen there’s just no good way to enforce that companies aren’t assholes. If you force a percentage of racial bias then it’s just as racist as not having one (because they shouldn’t need it forced, still treating them differently). If you do nothing then it’s obvious what happens. If you test based on “is there at least one” then that’s tokenism. No good answers.
protist@mander.xyz 1 month ago
There’s teaching people about systemic inequities, but Republicans/conservatives/MAGA are fighting that tooth and nail
realcaseyrollins 1 month ago
That's not what I'm saying tho
jonne@infosec.pub 1 month ago
They’re probably forum shopping, they’ll withdraw if it ends up in front of the ‘wrong’ judge until they get one that was put in by Trump.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yes then they appeal to the Supreme Court in hopes that they’ll set a precedent nationally. This tactic is used all the time.
realcaseyrollins 1 month ago
That's a good point, I should have thought about that. The left did that with cake baking cases and the right did that with abortion.