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Federal labor officials have decided to reverse their longtime policy and release diversity numbers for government contractors such as Oracle and Palantir Technologies in response to a lawsuit filed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Reveal submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for the workplace statistics of those and other tech companies as part of a project analyzing the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. We requested the companies’ official EEO-1 reports, which show the race and gender numbers for total US employees grouped by broad job categories.
But five companies – Oracle, Palantir, Pandora Media, Gilead Sciences and Splunk – objected to the requests, claiming that the diversity data is a trade secret. In each case, the US Department of Labor initially agreed with the companies and denied Reveal’s FOIA requests.
[...] On Oct. 30, the Labor Department notified the five government contractors that it would disclose their diversity numbers over their objections. Citing the lawsuit, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs told the companies that it has “undertaken a supplemental review” and “will initiate disclosure.” The companies had until Nov. 19 to take legal action to stop the release of the data.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:43PM
Not necessarily. I'm a zero-sum thinker in most respects but it lends to me concluding racism is just the drivel of mad men in the absence of concrete, real world facts to support it. So, extremism can go both ways.
Nah humans just hate anything different than themselves as a default. It's built-in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoNYklyShs [youtube.com]
See now this is where my world view is advantageous: I'm not a humanist. I consider humans fundamentally emotionally flawed machines. Religions... Racism... Homo/Heterosexuality... I just end up with the Marxist worldview that it's all fetish this... class warfare that... and we're all just lazy idiotic monkeys incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. So, I don't need to tell apart the real racist and the economic racist since they all operate under the same class warfare umbrella that is triggered by the same range of emotional fetishes. And my only objective regarding this unavoidably forever-war is disarmament: There will always be people at the bottom of the class system. So the only moral position worth a damn is to make sure it's not a horrible place to live in. Everyone should have houses. Everyone should have food. Everyone's kids should have parents around watching over. Even the worst criminals should get all that.
Let the middle and upper classes fight each other for luxuries and status instead of the lower and middle classes for scraps. That's my world view. And any application of affirmative action I've read about directly went against it so I don't support it.
A bit too dramatic and edgy. But I, for one, believe calling for what most would consider extreme actions under the guise of the majority's idea of extreme world-view, should follow extreme rhetoric.
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