The End of Disparate Impact

~ Clarissa

Trump eliminated disparate impact!

I wrote about disparate impact here. Also here.

Put that in your pipe and suck on it, LBJ.

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19 thoughts on “The End of Disparate Impact”

  1. The good news is that companies won’t be sued by the evil EEOC! But maybe the libtards in government institutions will find other ways to blunt the impact of this executive order? For example, race-based affirmative action for college admissions was officially banned in California in 1996 (Prop 209), and you know how that went lol.

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    1. I wonder if I’ll still have to justify each hire according to the EEOC standards. For 5 years I’ve undergone this form of humiliation. The indignities I’ve suffered only I know.

      “By the way, since you interviewed Kyle, erm, can you tell me what race he was? I’m not a creep! I need it for the paperwork!”

      That Trump actually went to battle against the second constitution is really big.

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  2. Data Republican is a national treasure. Here she unearths the mother of all NGOs.

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  3. The left would rather advocate for School Choice™ than give up on the Trans question. Unbelievable. Someone explain the hold that Trans people have on the left. It’s a vanishingly small percentage of the population!

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    1. This is the entire position of the Left. You can have rights if you are wealthy. Everybody else is screwed. I listened to the recording of Jackson’s oral argument and she said this openly. Her argument is that you can’t have constitutional rights if you can’t pay. That everybody already pays through taxation was not mentioned.

      And it’s completely unconstitutional. People accused of crime are provided free legal representation when they can’t pay. We don’t deprive them of being able to defend themselves at trial because they can’t afford an attorney. It’s insane that a SCOTUS Justice would openly say that constitutional protections only apply to those who can pay extra.

      I’m in Illinois, and the only reason my child is spared being subjected to this propaganda (which is the strongest in our state) is because we can afford to pay for a private school. Her best friend is from a family with 7 children. They make enormous sacrifices to be able to pay for this school. They can’t buy the clothes or the shoes they need because they have to pay for the private school for this one specific reason. I strongly believe that this is completely wrong. We should not get jaded and pretend that this is OK.

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  4. Justice Ketanji, please!!! Another DEI (Didn’t Earn It) hire if ever there was one.

    I just hope this goes somewhere. A presidential executive order is only the first step: you need statutory law to enshrine the principle you want to see enacted. Just like the other side did with the plethora of laws hard on the heels of the CRA. [The ERA was supposed to join the rest of them but thankfully never made it onto the statute book, but only just: some Blue states are trying to revive the process by ratifying it].

    Thank God for people like DataRepublican, LibsofTikTok and others like them. And for Stringer Bell.

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  5. Excellent!

    See? That whole “I can’t believe you don’t care when the president says dumb stuff OMG WORDS MATTER!!” thing going on in the other thread…. THIS is why I don’t care. Because this is what the administration is doing.

    Yes, words matter. They matter most when they’re in writing, in legal documents.

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    1. The genre of “Trump said” deserves to lose its unmerited popularity. I don’t care about what he says. When he kept saying “build the wall” and no wall got built, that did nothing for me. I only care about action.

      I’m going on my weekly show today to talk about disparate impact and how this is a watershed moment for the country.

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      1. I think there are two things going on there:

        1 – TDS is like some kind of tragic unrequited love thing. These people are so obsessed with Trump that they pay bonkers amounts of attention to every syllable that falls from his precious lips. It’s super creepy, and maybe they need a shrink to help with that.

        2 – This is a logical outgrowth of the whole words are literal violence culture. I’m in the socially-oblivious bucket myself, so it looks exhausting to me, but there’s apparently some subset of the population who are the opposite of that: who are so exquisitely sensitive to social cues, who pay so much attention to social signaling, at such a minute level, and expend so much of their energy and time on compliance to a set of ten million tiny social rules that mutate every day, so you have to study the professional publications to keep up, that they go bananas over still photos that seem to show someone raising an arm at an incorrect angle *while waving*, that sort of thing. I begin to think this is an actual mental illness, something in the social anxiety/OCD family. But I can see how if you are stuck in that mindset, you’d attribute outsized significance to *other people’s* words, gestures, etc. because that’s what *you* spend all your time obsessing over. So of course everyone else must be obsessing over it too.

        On that second point: this needs to be looked at. We had a similar situation when I was young, with anorexia nervosa: girls obsessing over the minutest details of their size, but exacerbated massively by fashion magazines– IIRC we made sort of a collective decision at that point that maybe giving crazy amounts of picture/print space to runway models with hollow cheeks, jutting hipbones and visible ribs was *not* healthy, and we needed to back off on that. Then the internet came along, and we had “ana” communities offering each other mutual reinforcement of their mental illness online.

        I think the current thing with “microaggressions” and “OMG WORDS” and whatnot is mental illness like anorexia: a culture-bound manifestation of OCD or similar, that is being pumped up and exacerbated by mutually-reinforcing online communities and also by media (in much the same way as plastering fashion mags with starvelings), and I wish we could make the same cultural decision to back the hell off that, for the good of the mentally fragile.

        It’s not healthy to have a whole internal framework where every accidental finger-gesture, every throwaway comment, every time an outstretched arm reaches an unapproved angle, in the completion of an arc, every use of a word on the constantly-changing and extremely long “unapproved” list, has world-changing significance, indicates secret loyalties, is a secret signal to underground factions (do political conspirators have to blink out morse code on TV these days because communications are so primitive?), and is sure to lead to the next holocaust. Right up there with wearing a pink hat is actual political action, and being offended by a hand gesture is actual oppression. This is not sane. This is schizo-level delusion, in the same genre as thinking the TV static is sending you personal messages, or that anyone who makes eye contact on the street is following you, and in fact an agent of the CIA assigned to track your every move.

        Like with paranoid schizophrenia and social anxiety: there’s a huge element of narcissism in it. The internal logic only works if you are literally the target of everyone else’s thoughts, judgements, strategies, conspiracies, etc. The core element of social anxiety is thinking that *everyone is thinking about you*. The cure is reminding yourself that you’re not that important, and neither is anyone else in the room. All just dumb specks in the dust of the universe. Which is depressing until you pick up the supporting thread: But God loves us and cares about us. Individually.

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        2. I find these people very hard to comprehend. And yes, it’s because I’m bored by social cues and impatient with the games of social courtesies and the signaling of status and belonging.

          Politically, people who worship words are easy marks. They think a politician delivered something very valuable by saying words. It’s impossible to get through to them. I’m seeing this at the local level where people stare at me dumbly and repeat “But the Dean said he loves and respects languages. He said so! I heard him say so several times!” That I have documents with the Dean’s signature ordering me to close French and German has no impact on this argument. But he said he wouldn’t! He said!

          It’s getting more annoying than I can describe. It totally feels like they are in the grip of a mental condition.

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      2. “genre of “Trump said” deserves to lose its unmerited popularity”

        The question is (I hadn’t thought much about it) is there a pattern to him saying weird things… I’m thinking of Lech Wałęsa who was famous for saying inappropriate or grammatically muddled or just weird things.

        After a while I noticed a pattern, when asked about something he didn’t want to talk about he’d say something weird and then everybody would forget what he’d been asked about to snicker at the dumb thing he said.

        Someone who wants to pay more attention than I do might want to examine what Trump says and when and see if there’s a pattern like that (or some different pattern).

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  6. It would be great if Trump ditches trade and foreign policy and focuses on domestic issues that he actually understands something about.

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