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.
But did the law allow for that? If all the black women were fired first, could a complaint of sexist or racist discrimination be made if there were plenty of white women and black men who weren't fired? I don't know and don't have time to read Crenshaw again now.
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If there was evidence that black women were targeted as a class, yes, it would be illegal discrimination even if the motives for it weren't racism because black men kept their job or sexism because white women kept their jobs. It's still race and sex based discrimination.
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You read the Crenshaw thing and the rulings saying that cases couldn't be judged like this which was later overturned and now they can?
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Did I read the entire 31 page document you linked? No. I can tell you in the highlighted portion she has the facts of the case wrong. Black men were also laid off and were filing suit.pic.twitter.com/3CrPLU0UP4
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The court wanted to combine the cases but the plaintiffs refused because the claim that black women were being doubly discriminated against. That's what the court was responding to in the section she quotes
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Yes, I know. There wasn't a way to complain of that. Now there is. Is that a bad thing?
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I'm going to leave it here. The article reported what Crenshaw did accurately. If you think this is itself is bad, think about whether you'd like to be able to complain if straight, white men get discriminated against by SocJus ppl when just one of those identities wouldn't be.
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I've literally been trying to explain for hours that it ISN'T the case that you can discriminate against a subset of a protected class by narrowing parameters so it's not "racism". Never once said "it's ok if ppl can discriminate against black women". Not once
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And if you haven't read what you linked in awhile, try doing so and getting through the first few sentences without believing there's an ideological motivation for misrepresenting what occurred in the GM case
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