I would feel bad for you and your co-workers if it were not for lawyers causing most of this nonsense in the first place. Our legal system has morphed into an absolute mess with no one to blame but the lawyers themselves. And I know this from hard and bitter first hand experience. This is simply the what goes around comes around principal in actions.
That said I am well aware that there are maybe 10% of lawyers who are not blood sucking entitled fiends and you may be one of them. But how are any of us to know? A smiling lawyer is not to be trusted under any circumstances.
The Communists to Martin Luther King: “Thanks for all your hard work, Marty...we’ll take it from here.”
Sadly, Mrs rktman and i commented on that just the other day. Hope you have your retirement scenario firmly in place. But, nothing over the new suspicious number of $600.00 anyplace “they” can monitor it. 😕🔥🐂💩
BTW, it’s not about race...it’s about revolution.
We may have to go through a true apartheid phase before this is sorted out. We are already seeing a form of pass laws.
Interesting. Sad. Requiring “us to provide race/gender breakdowns” is simply the unethical work of illogical and lazy people. The people who built Apollo 11 in 1969 did not worry about skin color. Rockwell in Downey in 1969 only worried about quality and design perfection. They knew every tree where their lumber came from and every foundry their bolts came from. Yup, they had a variety of races and genders that no one noticed. Worrying about race and gender will not put a man on the moon.
They're making up for the past, don'cha know.
"Content of their character" is out the window.
The leaves the white males free to form up in CO’s that aren’t stupid and slaughter the quota queens in the real world.
Indeed, when commercials come on TV, do any of you also play the game “find the white guy”?
The thing is that women especially will pay attention to and act on this propaganda.
In some ways, this might become self correcting when the “diverse” teams start losing cases. Of course, this assumes that the cases will be decided on the legal merits vs. the racial makeup of the legal team.
Consider yourself lucky that this is a recent trend for you, it’s been that way in my “industry” (national defense) for a decade or more. I developed a very advanced simulation at one point, and on the recruiting video they literally had a black junior employee say, “Hi, I am Lambslave, the developer of the **** simulation, and this is my team of developers (all women and blacks in the video... all white males in real life)”. No one even told me about it, I saw it one day by chance.
Well...You’re a lawyer so, I’m conflicted about how I’m suppose to feel...
Independence Day for All
The philosophical doctrines supporting the Declaration of Independence placed master and slave on the same natural plain of existence in 1776. All became defined as sovereign individuals finding their identity in exercising pre-existing intangible liberties accompanied by the hazards and uncertainties of these personal freedoms. Their ethnicity, gender, class, and race would always be secondary expressions of humanity.
But subsequent generations of politicians engaged in all the vices, follies and infirmities expected of humans as they debated and implemented policies accommodating trade, fisheries, agriculture, transportation, and mining amid speculative fevers. They ignored the rising influence of the political infallibility and intransigence of abolitionists and planters who blundered us into the Civil War.
Next for 1,500 days, Americans killed Americans until over 700,000 had died in battles, hospitals, and prisons. The men in blue and grey uniforms created an environment for winning the war. But this national catastrophe would not prompt consideration of first principles as blacks would find freedom a precious talisman lacking instructions and protections for the future. A Dream of Liberty for All
Dr. Martin Luther King saw personal liberties as preeminent keys to personal sovereignty by saying,” When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men- yes black men as well as white men-would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…..So we’ve come to cash this check; a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. ‘My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.”
Americans are individuals whose find primary identity is in pre-existing, natural, intangible liberties, and only secondarily in ethnicity, gender, class, or race. Dr. King reminded us of the philosophical doctrines consulted for founding placed all on the same metaphysical plain from inception of the Republic and made us all brothers and sisters.
The problem is you don’t have a diverse set of employees. They are all liberal.
I also suspect you don’t have any evangelic or born again Christians. Somebody needs to sue your firm for religious discrimination.
Ping
King (with help from speechwriters) wrote a pretty speech. But it was PR propaganda, calculated to resonate with the white middle and upper-middle classes. It did not necessarily reflect King's actual views.
Conservatives love to drape themselves as the true followers of King. But I'm old enough to remember North Carolina GOP Senator Jesse Helms's and Ronald Reagan's opposition to to making King's birthday a holiday in 1983. So too conservative radio hosts like Bob Grant. And with good reasons. King isn't the saint modern conservatives like to paint him as.
About 8 yrs ago, (before I retired), our company did their annual anti-discrimination certification. They showed a video series about the different types of situations where discrimination occurs. Out of the dozen scenarios, 11 were white males picking on other employees under their control, with malicious intent. The one outlier was a black male who just made an honest mistake to a disabled subordinate.
This was in a large corporation. During this training, my blood was boiling and sincerely felt like walking out the room. I have no idea what others felt. But it was absolutely propaganda to put white males in a negative light. Sickening.
And what another poster said, it’s been going on for a long time. White males ARE the Jews of the 1930s and early 40s. Pray to God it don’t end the same way.
Overt discrimination against white males was always the plan.
The equality crap was just that.
The end result of this is that competent, hard working white males will just start their own companies. And succeed despite the obstacles. The ones who will suffer long term is the token hires in incompetent firms that can’t keep up.
“She took two highly-qualified white male partners to accompany her to the meeting. After the meeting she was pulled aside by in-house counsel and chastised for bringing the two white males to the meeting. She was informed it was “tone deaf” and could not happen again.”
I’m a lawyer as well. My advice to that lady would be tell in-house counsel something that ends in “and the horse you rode in on.”