Sotomayor to the Supremes...

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Sotomayor to the Supremes...
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Tue, 05-26-2009 - 9:04am
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Registered: 07-11-2006
Thu, 05-28-2009 - 5:24pm

>>If someone is accused of bigotry then the accusing party must also be intolerant of the accused persons intolerance; therefore, it is self evident that the term bigot in a sense, can not actually exist in a free society or open debate because of it's self-destructive, self-imploding and hypocritical nature. <<
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bigot

I was me who made the tongue in cheek remark about white male justices, in post 139.

>>For me, the day the last white male Supreme Court Justice leaves the Court and no white males are nominated is the day I start taking the "reverse racism" seriously. IOW - when hell freezes over. <<
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-psmomspol&msg=5647.139

I'm not sure how one can make the stretch from a disbelief in reverse-discrimation to an intolerance for whites in general, but, hypothetically, if one did, what is the term for bigots who are intolerant to Caucasians or more specifically white males? Just curious.

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Registered: 04-09-2006
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 2:30pm

"I am sorry, but the past is in the past. I will, in fact, teach my children that they will have to work harder and better to achieve the same results."

Maybe I've missed something here, but as a female in a technical field, I'm already getting to do that NOW, today in the USA. The issue isn't my immediate supervisor, the person who hired me: he's gone "to bat" for me relentlessly. It's the director of the facility, who comes up with one ludicrous reason after another for taking me off the payroll, for cutting my hours, for assigning me clerical tasks in place of the computer work I was hired to do. I've been told (privately) that these issues are related to the fact that I'm the wrong sex. If I weren't out in the middle of nowhere, and dh didn't love his job, I'd be outta that scene SO fast...

Deborah

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Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 3:03pm

We have had similar issues here, basically working for one leader who essentially viewed

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Registered: 08-16-2005
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 3:04pm

Maybe I've missed something here, but as a female in a technical field, I'm already getting to do that NOW, today in the USA.


I started my career as a Software Engineer, one of 3 girls out of 125 graduating with that degree.


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Registered: 08-16-2005
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 3:08pm

I agree it does happen, but so does reverse discrimination, which nobody here seems to have a problem with or acknowledge as wrong.


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Registered: 08-13-2008
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 3:21pm

I think the problem is that we assume


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Registered: 01-12-2004
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 3:25pm

I agree that its often subtle, but sometimes, the subtelty is intentional, and intended to disguise the real motive.

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Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 5:02pm

But when is it discrimination?


If all of the men who worked under me were paid less than the females, there could be a variety of reasons.

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Registered: 08-16-2005
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 5:36pm

My example was not about who won and who didn't, but the more capable and dependable employee was laid off because of quotas that had to be met by law.


If Employee A has all 1 (the best ratings) and employee B had a combination of 2 and 3s, it is wrong to have to let A go because of a quota.




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Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 05-29-2009 - 6:29pm

Setting aside what's fair on an individual basis, that kind of decision is just bad business.

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