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Death of "I have a Dream" - the new overt discrimination against white males
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Posted on 09/18/2021 1:07:14 PM PDT by Zap Brannigan

I am a partner at one of the top 25 national law firms. I have been practicing law for more than 20 years. The dream of Martin Luther King is rapidly being extinguished by the new cadre of woke culture warriors. Never in my career have I observed such unabashed discrimination against white males as I have seen in the past 12-18 months.

We represent many major life sciences companies, corporations whose names would be familiar to all of you. Our clients have become militant in regulating the skin color and gender of the attorneys who are staffed on their matters. They all require us to provide race/gender breakdowns of the attorneys at the Firm.

Recently, one of my female partners led a three person team to a pitch meeting with a prospective client with whom we already have a relationship. 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.

Another major life sciences client has given us actual quotas. Including that 40% of the staff time on their matters be by women and 10% by underrepresented minorities. If the quotas are not met we will lose all work from them. This particular client has also insisted we provide gender/race breakdowns for attorneys staffed on their matters who work in Europe, even though providing such data is illegal according to the laws in many EU countries. Amazingly, this client has also offered to "assist" my firm in deciding who we should internally promote.

The vast majority of my partners are on the East Coast and are hardcore liberals. So the foregoing does not conceptually bother them other than figuring out how to comply with the mandates. When it was pointed out to the white female partner who took the two white males to the client meeting that she has two sons, the notion that they could be subject to the same kind of discrimination was lost on her.

In any event, just wanted to vent and give some insight into what is happening in my industry. I expect quotas and overt gender and racial discrimination against white males to become more and more normalized. Indeed, when commercials come on TV, do any of you also play the game "find the white guy"?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: based; discrimination; mgtow; race; redpill; vanity
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To: DaxtonBrown
The end result of this is that competent, hard working white males will just start their own companies. And succeed despite the obstacles.

Yet those obstacles will increase.

Any company that's too "white male" will find it increasingly ...

* Hard to get government contracts,

* Demonized as "white supremacist" on social media,

* Boycotted by "respectable" businesses, ad agencies, law firms, accounting firms, suppliers, airlines, trucking companies, etc.

And any business that does not join in the boycott, will likewise be demonized and boycotted.

41 posted on 09/18/2021 3:58:15 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Isn’t it true that Juneteenth will now be a federal holiday as well? If that’s so, then Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays were consolidated for naught (argument being that they couldn’t spare another space for a federal holiday if they were creating MLK Day).


42 posted on 09/18/2021 4:05:05 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Zap Brannigan

The “dream” has been dead for forty years and more.


43 posted on 09/18/2021 4:06:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: OrangeHoof

‘He is either the clueless dolt or the mean bigot.’

the one I get a kick out of is the new AT&T, where Lilly is in the store with three black customers and a white guy is in the background turning some sign around and getting winded...

can the reversal of plantation labor be any more blatant...


44 posted on 09/18/2021 4:49:03 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
Ever notice how many ads there are with blacks in dreadlocks, yet who are wearing glasses while working with computers?
45 posted on 09/18/2021 5:14:27 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ealgeone

I watch old shows and movies more and more.

Tonight is a run of One Step Beyond with your host John Newland.


46 posted on 09/18/2021 5:16:48 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: rbg81

I looked at it a little different, noticing the number of minorities in almost every commercial, caucasians being more and more in the minority.
Same difference,I guess.


47 posted on 09/18/2021 6:23:41 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Zap Brannigan

I remember driving across the Cross Bronx Expressway 30 years ago, and hearing some bitch on AM radio complain about the “angry white male”. I recall that being the beginning of the irrational hatred we’re seeing today.


48 posted on 09/18/2021 6:31:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ealgeone

>> Every white guy is an idiot.

Yup, that’s the portrayal.


49 posted on 09/18/2021 6:32:59 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Falconspeed
I always loved this article on affirmative action by Pittsburgh newsman Al Julius. It says it all and it was broadcast on KQV-AM on April 11th, 1966:

Y' CAN'T SUBSTITUTE ONE PREJUDICE FOR ANOTHER OR ONE QUOTA FOR ANOTHER QUOTA

Written and broadcast by Al Julius

April 11, 1966

At the very outset let's get one thing straight, everyone should be entitled to compete for a job based solely upon his qualifications to fulfill that job, and not upon his race religion or ethnic background ... That's the ideal proposition, that's the way it should be in the field of employment ... When you fill out an application for a job, the only salient points that should be of interest to the personnel manager is whether you have the background to enable you to perform the job so that you will be an asset to your employer, so that your work will prove profitable to him and this profitable to you, except in certain specific and minor cases there is no room on an application blank for race, religion or where your grandparents come from ... Thus we'll say that a firm has an opening for a qualified engineer, and a negro and a caucasian apply for the job, the man with the highest qualifications and greatest potential should be the one who finally gets the position, that's the only good common business sense because an employer is going to pay out dollars and cents in wages for the greatest return which in this case is work done, if he allows prejudice to play a part in his choice then he is decreasing his prime purpose in business which is to show a profit ... And it must be remembered that prejudice is a two edged sword, it can hack and cut in either direction, causing much pain and much more anger ... That mythical personnel manager can hire the less qualified caucasian over the more qualified negro just because he doesn't like negroes and that is prejudice, or because he is afraid of public opinion or he is out to satisfy certain vocal groups he will hire the less qualified negro over the more qualified caucasian, and make no mistake about it this too is prejudice ... Call it a repayment for many years of injustice, call it an attempt to balance a series of wrong doings, however you want to disguise it, it still fits the definition "a judgment or opinion held in disregard of facts that contradict it", and that's the definition of prejudice ... Minority groups have been wronged, minority groups have been sinned against, and there is such a thing as second class citizens, but this was caused by prejudice, and this will not be remedied by prejudice, even if they call it reverse prejudice ... By the same token everyone agrees that quota systems are bad, they are bad when they work against minority groups, and when they are turned around used as a tool for the minority groups it doesn't necessarily cleanse them and make them good because their purpose has changed ... They are still quota systems, they are still the misbegotten child of prejudice, they are still wrong ... You can't fight something one day and then turn around and use it the next day because now it happens to suit your purposes ... Therefore is one prejudice being substituted for another ... Is one quota system replacing another ... Are we losing sight of what should be the goal ... Judge a man as an individual, rate him on his merits ... His merits alone. This ... Is Al Julius
50 posted on 09/18/2021 7:13:00 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: Zap Brannigan

Sue the ba$tards for discrimination.


51 posted on 09/18/2021 7:18:07 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton’s )
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To: SauronOfMordor
Close to 30 years I was told I would not be getting a promotion because they had government contracts and there were too many white male managers.

I shortly left the company for a better offer elsewhere.


In 1976, my parents divorced. I turned 10 on July 8th of that year. Mom worked at K-Mart but needed a better job to take care of me and the house. Mom was a secretary before I was born and she had to become one again. My motrher was called in for an interview with the Port Authority of Pittsburgh, aka PAT Transit, who runs the mass transit system in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, PA. Mom was so excited. She went to the interview. When she came home, she was so angry. My grandmother (her Mom) and myself asked why? She said that the interviewer told her that she would have the job but they had to hold out a spot for a "colored woman." Grandma and I, we were upset, we both said, "that is not right." Mom was so hot with anger it was like charging up the Tsar Bomba. Ever since then, if this subject was brought up, Mom became instantly angry. I'm the same way too because of it.
52 posted on 09/18/2021 7:27:30 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: Falconspeed

The US is no longer a meritocracy. It is a doddering empire on the eve of its destruction, like the Soviet Union in 1987.


53 posted on 09/18/2021 7:52:56 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: telescope115

I looked at it a little different, noticing the number of minorities in almost every commercial, caucasians being more and more in the minority.
Same difference,I guess.


Well, yes, that too. But in many ways, commercials are often a signal of how we are supposed to behave and/or what we are supposed to value.

Increasingly, the commercials tell me who I should NOT be buying from.


54 posted on 09/18/2021 8:19:03 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: RoosterRedux

If Michael King had not been assassinated he would have just been another rabble rousing race pimp like Jackson and Sharpton. He had a talent to read speeches and appear to say something to everyone offering up empty platitudes just like Obama. But of course any criticism against the sainted MLK is heresy.


55 posted on 09/18/2021 9:43:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Gene Eric
The media coined (or at least popularized) the term "angry white man" in November 1994.

The media termed 1992 "The Year of the Woman" because women put Clinton in the White House.

The media termed 1994 "The Year of the Angry White Man" because white men gave the House and Senate to the Republicans.

I noted the difference. "The Year of the Woman" vs. "The Year of the Angry White Man.

Weren't all those female Clinton voters angry? We had been told they were, because of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Yet still, it was not how the 1992 Democratic victory was characterized.

I also remember MTV hosting a televised "star-studded" party to celebrate democracy after the election. They did it again in 1996. They were going to do it again in 2000, but canceled after Bush won. The excuse was the controversy over the election.

56 posted on 09/18/2021 10:02:02 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

>> Weren’t all those female Clinton voters angry

Damn straight.

Appreciate the references.

BTW, it was Rush that played the audio clips that I recall.


57 posted on 09/18/2021 11:46:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: TalBlack

‘’ 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”
The liberal racists should be careful what they wish for. Once you establish that racism and sexism are acceptable - if applied against white men - those white men might decide that they should adopt racist and sexist policies to protect themselves and advance their interests. A demagogue may emerge, with no shame, to lead the fight. The consequent backlash could be ferocious. However, gradually all these sexist and racist policies will be challenged in court, and we will see whether our legal system can rationalize some discrimination but not counter-discrimination It all depends on whose ox is gored.


58 posted on 09/19/2021 5:23:58 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: Zap Brannigan

Our clients have become militant in regulating the skin color and gender of the attorneys who are staffed on their matters. They all require us to provide race/gender breakdowns of the attorneys at the Firm.

Another major life sciences client has given us actual quotas. Including that 40% of the staff time on their matters be by women and 10% by underrepresented minorities. If the quotas are not met we will lose all work from them.

This particular client has also insisted we provide gender/race breakdowns for attorneys staffed on their matters who work in Europe, even though providing such data is illegal according to the laws in many EU countries.

Amazingly, this client has also offered to “assist” my firm in deciding who we should internally promote.


59 posted on 09/19/2021 5:42:43 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: brookwood

- those white men might decide that they should adopt racist and sexist policies to protect themselves and advance their interests.”

They wouldn’t have to, society will have done it for them. They can go off and do as they please, together, and be generally despised and ignored. Sounds good to me…


60 posted on 09/19/2021 6:05:49 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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