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"Affirmative action, in contrast, “means those actions appropriate to overcome the effects of past or present practices, policies, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity."
"employers may implement voluntary affirmative action plans in appropriate circumstances, such as to eliminate a manifest imbalance in a traditionally segregated job category"
This section cites particular case law United Steel Workers of America v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979), and Johnson v. Transportation Agency, 480 U.S. 616 (1987). It includes a summary https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/443/193.html …pic.twitter.com/SCMqUSLiz4
There is a great data visualization from @infobeautiful about diversity in tech... here are the numbers for Twitter compared to the US population.
Pretty obvious that Women, Latino, and Black are under represented.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/diversity-in-tech/ …pic.twitter.com/g9FtidJuIl
In United Steel Workers of America v. Weber only 1.83% of the plant's craft workers were black. They reserved 50% of the openings until Black craftworkers in the plant was commensurate with the percentage of Blacks in the local labor force. This was upheld by the supreme court
So, with my not-a-lawyer hat still firmly on, looking at the numbers and looking at the case law it would seem to me that an individual employee offering personal time to improve representation for a group that is statistically under represented isn't discrimination
That being said... we shouldn't have to pull up case law and do the fucking numbers to act like kind humans. Get bent racists.
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