Slashdot Mirror
Silicon Valley Big Data Startup Palantir Responds To Labor Department's Discrimination Lawsuit (fortune.com)
Silicon Valley's big data startup Palantir, founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has filed a response to the Department of Labor after the agency sued the company for discriminating against Asian job applicants. From a Fortune report: Palantir says that no discrimination took place and that the Labor Department's statistical analysis -- the basis for the recent suit -- is faulty. The suit, according to Palantir's 15-page response, wrongly suggests that the company "should have hired a workforce that matched the racial composition of the group of individuals whose resumes Palantir received, without regard to candidate qualifications." Palantir's response also points out that the suit addressed only three out of 44 job titles for which Palantir hired employees within the 18-month analysis period conducted by the Labor Department. What's more, says the response, 36% of those eventually hired across all the job openings within that timeframe were Asian -- a rate that exceeds the percentage of qualified Asian employees in the external labor market, according to stats from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Just making sure that every company in Silicon Valley can still discriminate against straight white men, who my SJW friends assure me are responsible for all the evil in the world and are the one class that it's absolutely okay to openly discriminate against.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
And of course, we never threaten to jail political opponents in this country. *That* would be a dictatorship!!!
I read that quote the other day, and my first response was "yeah, we totally fukken' do!".
I could think of a half dozen examples off the top, but here's a good list of previous Democratic examples.
From that article:
They seem to be forgetting that throwing the book at one’s political opponents is what Democrats do all the time. Here’s 16 times Democrats tried to prosecute their opponents for political gain, not justice.
Looking at the press bias in this election, we are totally boned as a nation. I expect we'll have rioting in several cities after the election.