The Illiberal Logic of Intersectionality | @xchrisgonzhttp://quillette.com/2018/05/08/illiberal-logic-intersectionality/ …
Yes, but it didn't recognise the discrimination because it wasn't one of racism or sexism. If the company employed white women & black men, they could openly discriminate against black women (usually due to stereotypes abt aggressiveness & promiscuity) w/out any recourse.
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Not that it matters because this isn't precedent currently, but it did recognize that there was a claim of discrimination and reviewed the claim under the statute. Negative result was on the merits of the sex discrimination claim.
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With the sex discrimination claim dismissed, the court advised the plaintiff to join with a different suit of black male GE employees for the racial discrimination claim that was ongoing.
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The rule both suits were claiming was discriminatory was a labor agreement condition in which the most junior people are fired first. Since this condition didn't explicitly target women, blacks or black women, the claims were thrown out
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You're saying there was already a way to claim discrimination as a black woman, not just as black or as woman? Crenshaw was wrong about that? Or she didn't take it to court?
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The plaintiff in the case had 2 bites at the apple. One for sex discrimination and another for race discrimination. Discrimination against black women as a class would be both under this ruling not neither. But the labor agreement didn't say "fire black women first"
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That was what she complained about, yes. And argued to be able to complain of discrimination on the intersection. I don't know if discrim against black women was explicitly set out or just suspected to exist. Either way, there needed to be a way to complain of it.
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This is where she set it all out anyway. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://uk.search.yahoo.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1052&context=uclf …
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I get the argument she's trying to make. But this case wasn't dismissed because black women weren't able to claim discrimination, rather because there was no actual evidence of discrimination.
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