Posted on 11/13/2021 4:03:26 PM PST by simpson96
The attorney for a former top executive of Novant Health who was awarded $10 million Tuesday by a federal jury says the discrimination lawsuit was not a statement against diversity and inclusion initiatives.
David Duvall's 2019 lawsuit said he lost his job as senior vice president of marketing and communication the year before because of Novant's effort to diversify its top leadership—and he is a white male. The firing came without warning or explanation shortly before his fifth anniversary with the North Carolina-based health system, and he was replaced by two women, one Black and one white, according to the lawsuit.
Duvall accused Novant of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits race and gender discrimination in the workplace.
"The jury learned that Duvall was a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion at Novant; that was one irony in his termination," his attorney, S. Luke Largess, said in a statement. "We are pleased that the jury agreed that Mr. Duvall’s race and gender were unlawful factors in his termination—that he was fired to make room for more diverse leaders at Novant Health."
News outlets report the jury said Novant Health failed to prove it would have dismissed Duvall regardless of his race.
"We believe the punitive damages award is a message that an employer cannot terminate and replace employees simply based on their race or gender in order to achieve greater diversity in the workforce," Largess said. "It is plainly unlawful and that was obvious to the jury."
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Moron. Still doesn’t get it.
The lawyer is the winner. Well, everyone involved in this case is a loser, but I think my comments are accurate.
Anyway, this plaintiff guy is going to need to get a job, so he is just thinking and talking strategically.
The DEI cult took his job away but he’s still virtue signaling for their cause? Stupid. He should take hia money and go away.
Are you generally against ‘diversity in the workplace’, and against laws prohibiting racial discrimination?
He obviously is not - and he made a simple statement to that effect. He won his case because HE was the victim of an illegal type of discrimination. (If there had been any legitimate reason to let him go, it would have come out, and he would probably not have won.)
You are correct.
The white males between 20 and 40 are going to be shut out regardless of performance with no settlement dollars.
I see this case as a win and precendent for those of us who want NO discrimination based upon ‘race’ or skin color.
Are you in a corporate job? Do you have any idea what these clowns promote as ideas and policy in the name of DEI? I’m talking Fortune 500 companies are doing this.
So why did he sue? Why didn’t he give up his job to a black female handicapped person.
Why do these liberals feel they have to virtue signal?
It is a win for someone losing his job because of race. We will have to see if those white males age 20-40 will be able to win a case because they were not promoted only due to race.
Well, a case like that might be difficult to prove unless one had clear evidence that they were denied promotion specifically because of race.
I’m just glad that this case turned out as it did. As much as I disbelieve in the whole concept of ‘race’, under the current mainstream way of thinking, ‘White’ is a ‘race’, too. Our laws should operate for ALL OF US.
The man WON, in a court of law. Don’t you see that as a win for all of us?
I think we can sometimes fall into an almost ‘womanish’ emotional attachment to our antipathy toward certain current buzzwords -like ‘diversity’.
This can cloud our thinking with regard to a case like this and what it actually means.
We are headed toward equality of outcome by race and by sex. Unfortunately there is not equality of ability and/or effort. We are on track for a race to the bottom in effort.
Well, I guess you lose everything whenever you give up.
John Galt.
There are stories after stories of individuals in the Soviet Union as they pretend to work.
I read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ over 30 years ago.
While I appreciated many of the political/philosophical points and admired Rand’s sharpness of mind, as a reader I was ‘turned-off’ by the lack of dimension in her characters; and the ‘world’ she created reminded of an early surrealist de Chirico painting.
(When I learned more about her own personal character and life, I was even more turned-off, and didn’t read any more.)
I remember readingM with jaw dropping astonishment, the parts where ...those government officials who were in charge deliberately, on purpose, passed laws that were IMPOSSIBLE TO OBEY.
And because the Laws were impossible to obey, those “trouble makers” became, by default...CRIMINALS.
THAT is the part of the book that stayed with me.
Now, I ask...DOES THAT KIND OF THINKING REMIND ANYONE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY??
I sure see it. That is what makes the book powerful for me.
It’s as though all of that idiot Biden’s Cabinet READ THE DAMNED BOOK.
She lived through the revolutions in Russia. She knew the tactics and how things work.
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