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US Department of Labor Is Suing Peter Thiel's Startup 'Palantir' For Discriminating Against Asians (reuters.com)
Palantir Technologies is a secretive start-up in Silicon Valley that specializes in big data analysis. It was founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings, and is backed by the FBI and CIA as it "helps government agencies track down terrorists and uncover financial fraud," according to Reuters. Today, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it discriminated against Asian job applicants. Reuters reports: The lawsuit alleges Palantir routinely eliminated Asian applicants in the resume screening and telephone interview phases, even when they were as qualified as white applicants. In one example cited by the Labor Department, Palantir reviewed a pool of more than 130 qualified applicants for the role of engineering intern. About 73 percent of those who applied were Asian. The lawsuit, which covers Palantir's conduct between January 2010 and the present, said the company hired 17 non-Asian applicants and four Asians. "The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in a billion," said the lawsuit, which was filed with the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges. The majority of Palantir's hires as engineering interns, as well as two other engineering positions, "came from an employee referral system that disproportionately excluded Asians," the lawsuit said. Palantir denied the allegations in a statement and said it intends to "vigorously defend" against them. The lawsuit seeks relief for persons affected, including lost wages.
This is an American news story. Here, Asian means Oriental, which is where ninjas, samurai and kung-fu monks come from. But we shouldn't say Oriental any more because it reinforces racist notions about which direction the Roman Empire thought the sun rose from in the morning. (Part of that is a joke, but, sadly, not enough.)
If it was a European news story, Asian would mean Muslim and nothing more, though you can usually make a good guess based on the country: English Asians are mostly Pakistani, German Asians are mostly Turkish, French Asians are mostly Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan, etc, Italian Asians are mostly "Syrian, *wink* *wink*", and so on.
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This company works with TLAs so they are obviously working hard to hire ppl that are NOT SPIES. Yet, we have 2 main types of Spies to be concerned about: Russian and Chinese. Chinese and Indian account for the vast majority of the Asian ppl. Obviously, the CHinese are going to be looked over hard. So, that leaves the Indians. And oddly, within India's military, they are VERY close to Russia. Much closer to Russia than to the west. As such, Indians are going to be looked at as well.
And dept. of Labor is saying that we must hire ppl of which a known quantity is going to be spies.
I have dealt with 1-2 spies already and both were Chinese. I would hate to have Dept. of Labor be able to control a company that deals with national security to this degree.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
However, no reproducible study has found a statistically significant difference in mental capacity between humans of different races.
http://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test...
Also, they're only looking at resumes to determine qualifications. I'll tell you right now that we get a TON of bogus resumes from body shops, especially Indian ones. Make no mistakes: we have many qualified Indians, including management, but you get a ton of padded resumes that don't hold up under questioning. And yes, you do get those from everywhere, but the predominately Indian body shops can drown you in them.
I concur. Unfortunately, of all the job interviews I do, there's a strong correlation between padded interviews and the origin of the applicant. That doesn't say anything about the individuals from these countries, but based on the original number of applicants, a proportionally higher number of them will not get hired - their qualifications did not meet the requirements.
For applicants from some other countries, there is a pattern of not listing all qualifications they have. That doesn't mean that the individuals are better, but statistically, those applicants are more likely to advance in the queue after an interview.
This is not racism. It's looking at actual qualifications.
I couldn't care less whether you're green and furry, but if something in your resume appears to be an untruth, you're not going to get hired. If a higher percentage of Indians put qualifications they don't have on their resumes, a higher percentage of Indians are going to get turned down.
The recruiting companies have to take a lot of the blame, I think. Some, i fear i have reason to believe, suggests what the applicants should add.
But if your resume says several years of Unix sysadmin experience, and you cannot name a Unix vendor or OS name when asked, you're not discriminated against when turned down.
There is just so much fallacy in these sproutings of historical misfacts that it is astounding. The reason western civilization has done so well is the development of the scientific method. That process was invented by the amateur scientist philosophers of Europe, most of whom were either aristocrats or Christian clerics. As well as the scientific method Christianity, specifically Catholicism invented the University.
Neither the Chinese nor the Islamic civilizations were capable of analyzing and synthesizing their serendipitous discoveries into any kind of organized advancement of technology.
Islam threw away any scientific edge they might have had when they decided as a religious culture to move from beleif in a rational creator to beleif in a creator disposed to irrational behavior.
The crusades were a defensive response to the armed conquest of over half the ancient world by a group that converted by the sword and who attacked Europe as recently (before modern times) as the 15th century. The most recent crusade was launched in the 15th century to counteract the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in that period, an expansion not stopped until the European victory at Lepanto.
I know you're trying to be snarky and clever, but there's writings of the brutality of the Muslims going back before the crusades. A few years back the pope got in hot water for reading the writings of a previous pope who said Islam was a religion of brutality and how they killed each other just as readily as they killed the Christians. This pope was from something like the early 1100s. Read up on the history of Alhambra if you'd like to learn something about how far back fighting goes between Christianity and Islam. You'll discover that part of the crusades was to get back territory that was seized from them by the Muslims. It's a long sordid affair and there's really no innocents involved. And it goes back so far that whatever started it is lost to history. It might as well be what's written in the Bible because there's no other records.
I looked at the wikipedia article. It's mostly just arguments by authority. Show me some actual evidence that proves the IQ tests are not valid. I don't think you can.
IQ tests correspond to the success one has in careers, wealth, productivity, less crime, etc. Besides which, the parent was discussing whether companies should hire applicants, and regardless of whether the outcome of the tests is social construct or an innate ability, the point is the same. IQ tests *do* correspond with ability to perform at mental tasks, and racial differences *do* correspond with different IQ levels, so regardless of why that is, it follows then that racial differences would correspond to the ability to perform, and therefore it would be common sense that more people of a certain racial group that performs better at IQ tests on average, would be more highly represented at jobs that require mental skills.
And whether white supremacist groups agree or don't agree does not affect the actual facts. Bringing that up has nothing to do with the statistics, and is muddying the issue. Of course, that was your intent.