Would love to hear from some experts here, especially civil rights law. Is there a private right of action under Title VII? I understand there is, but would like to know more. Certainly this is a straight up violation of Title VI that the Trump DOJ should be going after hard and fast. But it also seems like a class action would be in order, and that defendants could be lined up all across the country. What is the best approach on this? Pretty sure it isn't just to publicize, though that is a necessary start.
This woman is courageous. Watch Am I a Racist? By Matt Walsh . It is at times difficult to watch but it shows u exactly what this DEI and equity of results means.
There is a scene at a dinner party where two POC’s yell at white women . These white women paid to have racism explained at a dinner party. It’s truly uncomfortable
I've learned that you need to insert air quotes every time Bari trots out a new "whistleblower". Smith College didn't break any laws, or commit any kind of fraud. They aren't doing anything in secret that needs to be revealed. They are making efforts to correct for past injustices. They are committed to diversity, equality of opportunity, and inclusion of marginalized groups The horror!
It sounds to me like Jody Shaw has a really bad case of "white fragility". Some white people get really upset when you point out facts like: The median white household has 10X the wealth of the median black household. In other words, they get angry and defensive at learning that white privilege is a real thing.
I've had lots of DEI training. If you're open-minded, white people can learn a lot about how life is different for members of groups who have been, and still are, marginalized. I've found these courses to be enlightening. And, as a straight white male, I've never once been called an “oppressor” or been made to feel shame or guilt about who I am.
But I'm well aware that some white people, get very angry and defensive at learning the facts of systemic racism. Robin DiAngelo wrote her book for people like this. Sadly, the people who need to read it the most tend to recoil at the mere mention of the title and will never be able to approach it with an open mind. I think people like Ms. Shaw are misunderstanding what is being taught. I don't believe that what Smith college is doing is unethical or immoral in any way.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal employment law that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), and national origin. Title VII gives employees a private right to action . However, such claims cannot be brought against a specific individual, such as a supervisor. Rather, employers are subject to vicarious liability to violations caused by its managing employees. Adverse employment actions and hostile work environments are examples of circumstances that can support a claim under Title VII.
Adverse employment actions are actions that cause a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, and reassignment with significantly different responsibilities. For example , an employee's reassignment to a more arduous and less prestigious position, due to her gender, constitutes an adverse employment action.
Under Title VII, a hostile work environment exists when the workplace is "permeated with discriminatory, intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment." For example , evidence of sexual harassment is sufficient to show a hostile work environment.
This sounds like an email I received from the University of Toronto about celebrating the Spring Festival. They mean Lunar/Chinese New Year. You ask anyone in the communities that will celebrate New Year tomorrow what it’s called and they’ll say Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year/Tet/Seollal/I hope I’m not missing anything. I was tempted to write back but I rolled my eyes instead. Mistake? Anyway, sun neen fai lok to all celebrating. 😊🧧🧧🧧
Multiply the situation many times over. I could see and feel this train coming during the final years of my academic career at a public university. I remember sitting at one diversity meeting where we were told that anybody of European descent had as their life’s goal to acquire as much stuff as possible. I thought about my grandparents who immigrated from Scandinavia in the early 1900s, lived in New York never owned anything of value -including a car or a home. They always lived in a rented apartment where my grandfather was a longshoreman and later their super, and my grandmother was a domestic. But I couldn’t say those things out loud. They didn’t fit the narrative and more importantly nobody cared.
On my mother’s side I was first generation in the United States and first generation college, but because of my race, I was expected just to sit there and not make any contributions. The feeling I came away with is it’s time to retire -time to get out of the way.
Mind you, I have deep respect for people who have experienced racism, who are judged and hated for the color of their skin, and the history of racism in this country. I was coming of age during the civil rights movement. I know the ugly side. In my mind, I think I hoped this was a phase that was needed , but would AutoCorrect at some point with everyone landing on their feet.
It is now Jan 2025…this and so many other perversions of common sense are why Trump won the election in November…thanks to all who finally decided enough is enough…g.
We need more like her. Instead a very vocal few in the democrat party have become racists and societal anarchists while silencing the majority who know it is wrong yet say nothing. People ask how the German people could support Nazis. Well this is it- a morally bankrupt ideology that silences all opposition. As of late they have even participated in Jew Hating to bring us full circle and back on the path to inhumanity.
Bari, hopefully you will see this comment which I have posted on July 23, 2022. I just watched Eli Steele’s new half-hour documentary about Jodi Shaw and the incident at Smith College. It is called “Jodi Shaw and the Racial Mask of Whiteness.”
Eli is a wonderful filmmaker, as anyone who has seen “What Killed Michael Brown?” can attest. This new documentary is also a masterful piece of work, characterized by Steele’s slowly unfolding narrative style. This film deserves a wide audience. I came upon it by accident, because for some reason Jodi Shaw came into my mind and I wondered what she was up to today.
I’m asking you to please consider publicizing or featuring the documentary in some way, here on your Substack or on your podcast, as a follow-up to your reporting on Jodi Shaw. Otherwise, people who do not watch Fox, or who have active animosity towards Fox (they are legion), may miss this important and deeply relevant piece of documentary filmmaking. Eli Steele is a treasure. So is Jodi Shaw. The film broke my heart, infuriated me, and inspired me at the same time.
I am retired. I don't believe I could survive in today's work environment. I certainly know I don't have Ms. Shaw's courage. Supporting her effort is important.
Just finding this post, and wonderful comments here that I have already 'liked." I would add that there is an organization called FIRE that defends professors from just this type of anti-free speech activism currently run amok at certain liberal universities. I couldn't agree more that the intense focus on racial identity is the antithesis of what I was taught growing up in the 70s and 80s. People are people are people. I go to a church--a liberal Christian, 300 year old, Northeast congregational church borne from the Puritan tradition. The parishioners are 95% white. There are a few black families who are part of our beloved community. When the pastor delivers sermons that apologize for our "white supremacy," and when white parishioners stand up and confess their "micro-aggressions," I can't help but think that those black members never feel MORE separate and differentiated than when church leadership draws these lines that delineate based on skin color. (I felt this acutely when I brought our black foster son there once and the topic of race came up in a sermon.) The only upside that I can read into this extremism is that normal people will say enough is enough, and soon.
Cruel and Divisive indeed. I cannot wrap my brain around how many people of all races think that it's remotely acceptable for our educators to segregate our children into groups where they instruct the white children that they're oppressors and others that they are oppressed. Making white children feel ashamed of their immutable racial characteristics and instilling hopelessness and resentment in black and brown children are acts of cruelty that spring from Marxist tyrants. Tyrants who we've entrusted to teach and nurture our children but who are instead, abusing them! Yes, this evil indoctrination is child abuse and in my world the Department of Child and Family Services should sweep in and remove all these kids from these schools in the same manner that they'd remove abused children from abusive parents and caretakers.
The left is eating its own-not terribly surprising- I was a progressive until I actually taught in the inner city and man did I change my mind! You can’t possibly care about education and be a progressive- they are without a doubt the single biggest impediment to educational access and college attainment for -not surprised they are all in on antiracist critical race theory
Would love to hear from some experts here, especially civil rights law. Is there a private right of action under Title VII? I understand there is, but would like to know more. Certainly this is a straight up violation of Title VI that the Trump DOJ should be going after hard and fast. But it also seems like a class action would be in order, and that defendants could be lined up all across the country. What is the best approach on this? Pretty sure it isn't just to publicize, though that is a necessary start.
This woman is courageous. Watch Am I a Racist? By Matt Walsh . It is at times difficult to watch but it shows u exactly what this DEI and equity of results means.
There is a scene at a dinner party where two POC’s yell at white women . These white women paid to have racism explained at a dinner party. It’s truly uncomfortable
I've learned that you need to insert air quotes every time Bari trots out a new "whistleblower". Smith College didn't break any laws, or commit any kind of fraud. They aren't doing anything in secret that needs to be revealed. They are making efforts to correct for past injustices. They are committed to diversity, equality of opportunity, and inclusion of marginalized groups The horror!
It sounds to me like Jody Shaw has a really bad case of "white fragility". Some white people get really upset when you point out facts like: The median white household has 10X the wealth of the median black household. In other words, they get angry and defensive at learning that white privilege is a real thing.
I've had lots of DEI training. If you're open-minded, white people can learn a lot about how life is different for members of groups who have been, and still are, marginalized. I've found these courses to be enlightening. And, as a straight white male, I've never once been called an “oppressor” or been made to feel shame or guilt about who I am.
But I'm well aware that some white people, get very angry and defensive at learning the facts of systemic racism. Robin DiAngelo wrote her book for people like this. Sadly, the people who need to read it the most tend to recoil at the mere mention of the title and will never be able to approach it with an open mind. I think people like Ms. Shaw are misunderstanding what is being taught. I don't believe that what Smith college is doing is unethical or immoral in any way.
Um, pretty sure what they did to her is a straight up violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/title_vii#
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal employment law that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), and national origin. Title VII gives employees a private right to action . However, such claims cannot be brought against a specific individual, such as a supervisor. Rather, employers are subject to vicarious liability to violations caused by its managing employees. Adverse employment actions and hostile work environments are examples of circumstances that can support a claim under Title VII.
Adverse employment actions are actions that cause a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, and reassignment with significantly different responsibilities. For example , an employee's reassignment to a more arduous and less prestigious position, due to her gender, constitutes an adverse employment action.
Under Title VII, a hostile work environment exists when the workplace is "permeated with discriminatory, intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment." For example , evidence of sexual harassment is sufficient to show a hostile work environment.
This sounds like an email I received from the University of Toronto about celebrating the Spring Festival. They mean Lunar/Chinese New Year. You ask anyone in the communities that will celebrate New Year tomorrow what it’s called and they’ll say Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year/Tet/Seollal/I hope I’m not missing anything. I was tempted to write back but I rolled my eyes instead. Mistake? Anyway, sun neen fai lok to all celebrating. 😊🧧🧧🧧
Multiply the situation many times over. I could see and feel this train coming during the final years of my academic career at a public university. I remember sitting at one diversity meeting where we were told that anybody of European descent had as their life’s goal to acquire as much stuff as possible. I thought about my grandparents who immigrated from Scandinavia in the early 1900s, lived in New York never owned anything of value -including a car or a home. They always lived in a rented apartment where my grandfather was a longshoreman and later their super, and my grandmother was a domestic. But I couldn’t say those things out loud. They didn’t fit the narrative and more importantly nobody cared.
On my mother’s side I was first generation in the United States and first generation college, but because of my race, I was expected just to sit there and not make any contributions. The feeling I came away with is it’s time to retire -time to get out of the way.
Mind you, I have deep respect for people who have experienced racism, who are judged and hated for the color of their skin, and the history of racism in this country. I was coming of age during the civil rights movement. I know the ugly side. In my mind, I think I hoped this was a phase that was needed , but would AutoCorrect at some point with everyone landing on their feet.
It is now Jan 2025…this and so many other perversions of common sense are why Trump won the election in November…thanks to all who finally decided enough is enough…g.
Bravo to a courageous woman!
Incredible that she refused the settlement so she could spread the info. What a brave woman.
The donation thing is paused
We need more like her. Instead a very vocal few in the democrat party have become racists and societal anarchists while silencing the majority who know it is wrong yet say nothing. People ask how the German people could support Nazis. Well this is it- a morally bankrupt ideology that silences all opposition. As of late they have even participated in Jew Hating to bring us full circle and back on the path to inhumanity.
My comment is WOW!!! That took courage.
Bari, hopefully you will see this comment which I have posted on July 23, 2022. I just watched Eli Steele’s new half-hour documentary about Jodi Shaw and the incident at Smith College. It is called “Jodi Shaw and the Racial Mask of Whiteness.”
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whjsCX3dFxU
Eli is a wonderful filmmaker, as anyone who has seen “What Killed Michael Brown?” can attest. This new documentary is also a masterful piece of work, characterized by Steele’s slowly unfolding narrative style. This film deserves a wide audience. I came upon it by accident, because for some reason Jodi Shaw came into my mind and I wondered what she was up to today.
I’m asking you to please consider publicizing or featuring the documentary in some way, here on your Substack or on your podcast, as a follow-up to your reporting on Jodi Shaw. Otherwise, people who do not watch Fox, or who have active animosity towards Fox (they are legion), may miss this important and deeply relevant piece of documentary filmmaking. Eli Steele is a treasure. So is Jodi Shaw. The film broke my heart, infuriated me, and inspired me at the same time.
Thank you.
I am retired. I don't believe I could survive in today's work environment. I certainly know I don't have Ms. Shaw's courage. Supporting her effort is important.
Just finding this post, and wonderful comments here that I have already 'liked." I would add that there is an organization called FIRE that defends professors from just this type of anti-free speech activism currently run amok at certain liberal universities. I couldn't agree more that the intense focus on racial identity is the antithesis of what I was taught growing up in the 70s and 80s. People are people are people. I go to a church--a liberal Christian, 300 year old, Northeast congregational church borne from the Puritan tradition. The parishioners are 95% white. There are a few black families who are part of our beloved community. When the pastor delivers sermons that apologize for our "white supremacy," and when white parishioners stand up and confess their "micro-aggressions," I can't help but think that those black members never feel MORE separate and differentiated than when church leadership draws these lines that delineate based on skin color. (I felt this acutely when I brought our black foster son there once and the topic of race came up in a sermon.) The only upside that I can read into this extremism is that normal people will say enough is enough, and soon.
Cruel and Divisive indeed. I cannot wrap my brain around how many people of all races think that it's remotely acceptable for our educators to segregate our children into groups where they instruct the white children that they're oppressors and others that they are oppressed. Making white children feel ashamed of their immutable racial characteristics and instilling hopelessness and resentment in black and brown children are acts of cruelty that spring from Marxist tyrants. Tyrants who we've entrusted to teach and nurture our children but who are instead, abusing them! Yes, this evil indoctrination is child abuse and in my world the Department of Child and Family Services should sweep in and remove all these kids from these schools in the same manner that they'd remove abused children from abusive parents and caretakers.
The left is eating its own-not terribly surprising- I was a progressive until I actually taught in the inner city and man did I change my mind! You can’t possibly care about education and be a progressive- they are without a doubt the single biggest impediment to educational access and college attainment for -not surprised they are all in on antiracist critical race theory