‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by thu2111 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#25240926)

And how do you define discrimination if intent doesn't matter? If decisions don't matter then the only way to define discrimination is via observed results: if you have no black employees, it must be discrimination, even if nobody ever actually discriminated in an objective way. Which means you'd be punished for not matching some theoretical demographics.

The whole notion is ridiculous. The fact that California takes this stuff so seriously just makes it look like it's throwing away its tech lead, as viewed from afar.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by slg on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:21PM (#25246848)

You seem to be acting as this is some new extreme leftist view of discrimination. This comes from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You can find all the details and definitions here[1].

[1] - https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-196...

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by thu2111 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:13AM (#25275367)

Affirmative action has always been a racist hypocrisy. The fact that there have always been leftists campaigning for it is irrelevant, as it's by far more common. America is indeed structurally racist: against whites and (sometimes) Asians. The fact that this has a long history doesn't make recent trends any more acceptable.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by slg on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:17AM (#25287106)

No one was talking about affirmative action, but ok.

And you reveal your true motivation when you say something like "America is indeed structurally racist: against whites". No one with any semblance of objectivity would agree with that.

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