tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5239368101933182782..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: De Blasio's $100 million handout in disparate impact FDNY caseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84980328684170306732014-03-21T05:09:49.604-07:002014-03-21T05:09:49.604-07:00The only unusual thing is there was a ruling of de...The only unusual thing is there was a ruling of deliberate racism in this case from Garaufis. I believe he has a reputation for that sort of thing. But, he surely is not the only one; a lot of judges who would do no different to what Garaufis did and call it deliberate, especially now. A simple disparate impact judgement and level of compensation is inevitable, fighting it only opens the door to a ruling of deliberate racism. <br /><br />As Scalia said: "Our charge is to give effect to the law Congress enacted. By enacting [Title VII disparate impact provisions], Congress allowed claims to be brought against an employer who uses a practice that causes disparate impact, whatever the employer's motives ...If that effect was unintended, it is a problem for Congress, not one that federal courts can fix.<br /><br />And that means it's implicit in the law of the land that every institution in society is thoughoughly racist, whatever the people running them say or think.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20982758822576888942014-03-20T14:31:02.008-07:002014-03-20T14:31:02.008-07:00"Isn't that the whole point?"
Well,..."Isn't that the whole point?"<br /><br />Well, yes. I thought that was my point. I only meant their strategy has been "successful" on their terms, not mine. <br /><br />Who knows, maybe the swiftness of the cultural collapse can help cultural conservatives. The cultural right was massively outgunned so it probably would have lost the culture wars anyway, so maybe it's better to have had that collapse sooner rather than later. <br /><br /> The only alternative in earlier years would have been to go racial but that would have had to contend with the fact that civil rights era racial fantasies die hard. And then there's also the confounding factor of the apparently irrepressible "respectable conservative" inclination to prove that I may be a "racist," but I'm no <i>racist</i>!Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63878627203224545482014-03-20T10:37:58.132-07:002014-03-20T10:37:58.132-07:00"He has severe 'spelling' problems. H..."He has severe 'spelling' problems. He flunks tests. He isn't a reader."<br /><br />Reminds me of a lot of jobs that are hands on and competently done by guys who once give a paper and pencil simply can't at all reflect the same performance. <br /><br />Are there any studies of this kind of phenomenon? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4473286311551411692014-03-20T09:09:06.574-07:002014-03-20T09:09:06.574-07:00Silver "a large part of their cultural power ...Silver <i>"a large part of their cultural power stems from mainstream conservatism's decision to undertake a scorched earth retreat on cultural issues in a bid to defeat the left on economics. It's been successful so far"</i><br /><br />Isn't that the whole point? The cultural defeats actually help enable the economic victories "for the right". But the economic victories "for the right" involve depressing wages via both unskilled and skilled immigration, and potentially something the US hasn't seen since its founding - a huge division between the elite and Joe Public. <br /><br />Sort of thing you see in Brazil, or in most of South America for most of the last hundred years, or in Europe before 1840-odd. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43357438755861740662014-03-20T01:30:01.107-07:002014-03-20T01:30:01.107-07:00So post-test character references are also racist ...So post-test character references are also racist because NAMs have, on average, more character issues such as firings, criminal histories, bad credit, etc. More disparate impact! Let's do away with reference checks all together. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31711922872129763472014-03-20T01:08:11.898-07:002014-03-20T01:08:11.898-07:00"You have to give credit to the Left, they ar..."You have to give credit to the Left, they are relentless."<br /><br />And culturally powerful. But a large part of their cultural power stems from mainstream conservatism's decision to undertake a scorched earth retreat on cultural issues in a bid to defeat the left on economics. It's been successful so far but it was never really going to be anything more than a delaying tactic.<br />Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13366517903540907232014-03-20T00:03:34.820-07:002014-03-20T00:03:34.820-07:00"The first is whether allowing lawsuits under..."The first is whether allowing lawsuits under a disparate impact theory should be allowed. For better or worse, the law allows it."<br /><br />Just a fact of nature that one must stoically accept, I take it. If only human beings had it within our power to decide the laws we shall be governed by. Alas, who are humans to think they deserve a say in what the law, for better or worse, allows?Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42264074037870013672014-03-19T20:33:39.421-07:002014-03-19T20:33:39.421-07:00Anonymous said...
"Forget "black ret...Anonymous said...<br /> <i>"Forget "black retirement planning" - this is another case where the radical left is rigging the litigation process so that they are managing both sides of the case - see Pigford, the recent DHS hiring of several pro-amnesty lawyers to "enforce" our immigration laws, the FBI non-investigation into the IRS scandal, or the refusal of various state attorneys general to defend their marriage laws in court. The left is winning by pretending to be surrendering to their own."</i><br />----------<br />Here's yet <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/031714-693616-oklahoma-sues-to-keep-prairie-chicken-from-ending-fracking-revolution.htm" rel="nofollow">another example</a>, in which the Obama administration colludes with environmental groups to block off large areas of private land to oil and gas production.<br /><br />These environmental groups file suit against the federal government, claiming a particular energy project will endanger a protected species. The government immediately concedes winnable cases and the settlement becomes part of the law, a law Obama could not get past congress.<br /><br /><i>Under the Obama administration, the feds have entered into a consent agreement with the environmentalists to rush forward a judgment on an unprecedented number of species. A 2012 Chamber of Commerce study found record numbers of such "sue and settle" cases under Obama.</i><br /><br />You have to give credit to the Left, they are relentless.<br /><br />Rust never sleeps.Rev. Righthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10165887113835960014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36650338453801962442014-03-19T17:59:13.630-07:002014-03-19T17:59:13.630-07:00That question from the test you showed uses nothin...That question from the test you showed uses nothing more than the level of English high school seniors should understand. Simple direct sentences. Three things to remember. Easy. Only a paranoid dimwit would think questions like that are racially discriminatory. If the mayor thinks that, he must think blacks are intellectually inferior. How can it be racist to require that firefighters read at the high school level?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06312619353510807244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7570507519817325052014-03-19T17:46:15.856-07:002014-03-19T17:46:15.856-07:00I think two issues are being conflated here.
The ...I think two issues are being conflated here.<br /><br />The first is whether allowing lawsuits under a disparate impact theory should be allowed. For better or worse, the law allows it.<br /><br />The second issue is whether given the current state of the law, whether NY was wise to settle for what it did - taking into account whatever the chance was of being hit for a verdict that exceeded what they agreed to pay out. In other words, did the class have a good case under disparate impact law as it exists? I don't think that is clear at all from the article. Lefty Lawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84376735728280690362014-03-19T17:19:20.968-07:002014-03-19T17:19:20.968-07:00The "saw" referred to is a cut-off machi...The "saw" referred to is a cut-off machine, not a chainsaw. Use of carbide-tipped blades on cut-off machines is extremely dangerous and is strongly discouraged by manufacturers, except in firefighting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58982023036797370652014-03-19T16:34:27.583-07:002014-03-19T16:34:27.583-07:00WOW! I wish I could take some test, fail it, and t...WOW! I wish I could take some test, fail it, and then get paid $65,000.00 for it!<br /><br />(But since I am white, that isn't going to happen.....).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74577599508243456482014-03-19T16:32:49.016-07:002014-03-19T16:32:49.016-07:00Countenance said:
"The hydrant and the fire ...Countenance said:<br /><br />"The hydrant and the fire are 90 feet apart. All your hoses are 30 feet long. How many hoses must you connect to reach between the two points?"<br /><br />I called over my eight year old nephew and asked him this and he correctly said three. What a bizarro world we live in. I HAD NO IDEA DIVISION WAS RACIST!<br /><br />P.S. I completely agree with that one poster who said that blacks don't study. I've seen this myself. Whether it is a lack of reading skills (blacks are not really known as library-bookworm types anyways), a lack of discipline, or whatever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67320575889032483382014-03-19T15:54:10.475-07:002014-03-19T15:54:10.475-07:00"The problem was not that blacks did not do a..."The problem was not that blacks did not do as well on the test, which is true, but necessarily evidence of discrimination. It is that they did not do as well on the test, AND the City's own experts conceded that the test did not measure what you needed to know to be a good firefighter. On tests geared more to oral reasoning and problem solving, what you need in a fire situation, blacks do better than whites. NYC has been the only major city in the country that has not managed to integrate its fire department."<br /><br />It seems to me that we are rapidly sliding into a third world economy and soon all of the United States of America will like Detroit.<br /><br />hallelujah the Frankfurt School commies have won!!!<br /><br />europeasantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78274458562918900182014-03-19T15:50:27.598-07:002014-03-19T15:50:27.598-07:00For the Black Man, there's good money to be ma...For the Black Man, there's good money to be made failing tests and waiting for a table at Denny's.Jonathan Silbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11706883295090710032014-03-19T14:11:08.095-07:002014-03-19T14:11:08.095-07:00"NYC's Corrections Dept. is 90% minority....<br />"NYC's Corrections Dept. is 90% minority. Why is that OK? Even by government standards, where black employees are always over-represented, this is insanely high number."<br /><br />First of all, inmates are likely 90% minority, too. Anyway, how are you going to make whites want to apply for those jobs? It is kind of like the dreamers who want equality in all kinds of jobs that certain groups don't want to do. Blacks in physics and math, women in plumbing and concrete contracting, etc. Sure there are a few but in general, they don't want those careers, and liberal dreamers can't make them want them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88940571134368334442014-03-19T13:13:06.474-07:002014-03-19T13:13:06.474-07:00"On tests geared more to oral reasoning and p..."On tests geared more to oral reasoning and problem solving, what you need in a fire situation, blacks do better than whites."<br /><br />Interesting thesis. You could be onto something.<br /><br />(1) Das rayciss! [oral reasoning]<br /><br />(2) You're right. Here's $150,000,000! [problem solved]<br /><br />Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8297243222189211952014-03-19T12:31:44.514-07:002014-03-19T12:31:44.514-07:00One hose suffices, if you have enough water pressu...One hose suffices, if you have enough water pressure ;-) Sir Isaac Newtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25490900546830925212014-03-19T12:11:18.860-07:002014-03-19T12:11:18.860-07:00jesse jackson has finally aimed his sites on tech....<em>jesse jackson has finally aimed his sites on tech.</em><br /><br />A classic "can they both lose?" situation. Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7781922575901059692014-03-19T12:01:42.775-07:002014-03-19T12:01:42.775-07:00"Every American taxpayer is paying for those ..."Every American taxpayer is paying for those hard-working, six-figure-earning, teachers, cops and firefighters who retire on disability (i.e., they pay no income tax). And all of their pension funds are handled by those masters of the universe wearing $10k Huntsman suits and driving million-dollar Bugattis. Wall Street lives large thanks to [doubly-screwed] middle class America."<br /><br />This is sophomoric economic analysis. You're claiming that asset managers are subsidized by the over-market pay that public employees receive. You might as well claim that public pensions subsidize Apple because many public employees buy iPhones.<br /><br />Asset managers are paid to invest money that people save. This is true whether it's a state pension or a private 401k. The management fees are about the same regardless (actually pensions usually get discounts because of size). <br /><br />Let's assume that public employees got paid less. That would mean taxpayers would have more money left over. Some of which they would invest, and hence would go to asset management fees.<br /><br />Unless you make the case that public employees have significantly higher savings rates than private employees, there's no reason to believe that Wall Street benefits one way or another.DRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395057401348319239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4850080024528180322014-03-19T11:43:53.580-07:002014-03-19T11:43:53.580-07:00jody said..."speaking of shakedowns, jesse ja...jody said..."speaking of shakedowns, jesse jackson has finally aimed his sites on tech. he probably won't get much traction, but there it is...well jackson has noticed, and has gotten around to attacking them for it."<br /><br />You assume Jesse gives a crap about anything but Jesse. Nah, this won't go anymore. Jesse will get some money and a board seat or two and that'll be that. Otisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47711907553150637172014-03-19T11:32:23.734-07:002014-03-19T11:32:23.734-07:00"Legacy hires-whites with family ties-were gi..."Legacy hires-whites with family ties-were given preferential treatment.<br /><br />Also, you have to work realy hard to maintain a 90(!)% white institution in the most diverse city in America."<br /><br />Strangely that argument is never applied to the New York media and banking mafia?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81646509377140147552014-03-19T10:45:07.738-07:002014-03-19T10:45:07.738-07:00It won't be just New Yorkers footing the bill....It won't be just New Yorkers footing the bill. It will just be passed off to those who live and do business in NYC. Wall Street makes <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926?page=2" rel="nofollow"> hundreds of billions of dollars managing state pension funds</a>. Every American taxpayer is paying for those hard-working, six-figure-earning, teachers, cops and firefighters who retire on disability (i.e., they pay no income tax). And all of their pension funds are handled by those masters of the universe wearing $10k Huntsman suits and driving million-dollar Bugattis. Wall Street lives large thanks to [doubly-screwed] middle class America. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76701038247009563962014-03-19T10:35:57.752-07:002014-03-19T10:35:57.752-07:00NYC's Corrections Dept. is 90% minority. Why i...<i>NYC's Corrections Dept. is 90% minority. Why is that OK? Even by government standards, where black employees are always over-represented, this is insanely high number.</i><br /><br />Because NAMs or Jews/Mercurians (in this case, NAMs) can do the job. It's not a European niche. European niches get the axe first.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26158115663401760532014-03-19T10:18:28.539-07:002014-03-19T10:18:28.539-07:00FDNY is sued for past "discrimination" a...FDNY is sued for past "discrimination" against minorities & current discrimination, as white applicants are kept out of NYFD to make room for less qualified blacks & latinos.<br /><br />NYC's Corrections Dept. is 90% minority. Why is that OK? Even by government standards, where black employees are always over-represented, this is insanely high number.driesnoreply@blogger.com