Women And Minorities Hardest Hit
In an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 29, 10 of President Obama’s top economic advisers stood before him discussing the heated fiscal negotiations. Every one was a man.
ONLY two of the 20-plus reporters who covered the presidential campaign for The New York Times were black. None were Latino or Asian.
That’s less diversity than you’ll find in Donald Trump’s cabinet thus far.
Of The Times’s newly named White House team, all six are white, as is most everyone in the Washington bureau. -Liz Spayd, NYT Public Editor 
A woman who says she was raped as a 12-year-old girl by an Arkansas man who was defended by a young novice defense attorney named Hillary Clinton says the future presidential candidate smeared her to get her attacker off with a light sentence...
The woman told The Daily Beast Clinton intentionally lied about her in court documents, went to extraordinary lengths to discredit evidence of the rape, and later callously acknowledged - even laughed - about her attackers’ guilt on the recordings.
I admired her. I wanted to be like her. She had earned the endorsement of the National Organization for Women, but when a freshman Democrat named Chris Van Hollen challenged her in 2002, NOW dropped its support of this accomplished Republican congresswoman. -Dana Perino
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Financial, Misogyny, Racism, Oops, Greed, Feminism, Justice, Sexism, Law, Diversity
Alphabet Inc.’s Google failed to persuade a judge to block class-action status for a gender-pay disparity lawsuit brought on behalf of almost 11,000 women.
A San Francisco state judge certified the class action Thursday, allowing the four lead plaintiffs to represent 10,800 women over claims that Google pays men more for doing the same job. A previously disclosed analysis showed that the case seeks more than $600 million in damages...
The women leading the Google suit said in a July court filing that the company paid female employees approximately $16,794 less per year than “the similarly-situated man,” citing an analysis by David Neumark, an economist at University of California at Irvine. “Google paid women less base salary, smaller bonuses, and less stock than men in the same job code and location,” they said...
Google agreed to pay almost $2.6 million to settle U.S. Labor Department allegations that the technology company potentially underpaid thousands of female workers in software engineering positions, and discriminated against women and Asian job applicants.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Character, Funny, Racism, Oops, Press, Tolerance, Media, Diversity
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said Tuesday that it would place CNN on a "special media monitoring list," citing a lack of black representation among the network's leadership ranks.
NABJ said in a statement that its preliminary research showed that CNN has no black employees reporting to CNN President Jeff Zucker. It also showed that the news organization has no black executive producers as well as no black vice presidents or senior vice presidents on the news side...
The group said that it its delegation is engaged in "very positive outreach" with other media companies and has met or scheduled meetings with ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
Last year, former CNN morning anchor Soledad O'Brien slammed the network and the cable news industry at large for what she said is a lack of diversity on the senior level.
Democrat Governor of Virginia
KKK, Black Face Racism
"We deserve better than a president who won't condemn white supremacists." -Governor Ralph Northam
Democrats: Brutalizing Women...
"Everybody who's systematically traumatized, terrorized, harassed, stalked and stolen from me, during my time in California and in Hollywood, has been a Democrat."
Emmys: Overwhelmingly White
Hollywood: Home of White Privilege
Look it all that diversity! #Emmys #EmmyAwards pic.twitter.com/yFNoyPYeKx
— DiBiase (@Dibiase_ca) September 18, 2017
So not many minorities received gift bags?
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Oops
A group of university professors recently claimed that social-justice activism, of all fields, is “rife with experiences of oppression.”
In an article published Monday in the Journal of Homosexuality, Dr. Whitney Hagen of Florida Atlantic University, et al. argue that “activist communities” are hostile toward gay and transgender populations, adding that individuals with “multiple oppressed statuses and identities” are “especially prone to oppression-based experiences, even within minority activist communities.”
While some individuals “may find social support and decreased isolation through engagement with established activist groups,” they caution that “activism is not universally helpful,” particularly for those with “multiple oppressed identities,” who “may experience invalidation, tokenism, and marginalization within activist communities.”
Liberal, Violence, Oops, Protest, Islam, Vandalism, Trump
The limousine that was set on fire during the anti-Trump anarchist protest in downtown Washington on Inauguration Day is owned by a Muslim immigrant who says the damage could cost his company $70,000... Ashraf explained that with the loss of the vehicle, his company is now in the hole for $70,000 (if insurance doesn't cover riots) plus commission and the medical bills for his driver.
In April 2012, the Obama re-election campaign posted a photo of a staff meeting on its Tumblr account. The aides in the picture were young, casually dressed, and enthusiastic — and nearly all white... The supporters were so unhappy that they forced the campaign to search for African-Americans to fill senior roles in the effort. After months of searching, the campaign found exactly one. -Byron York
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Racism, Brilliance, Oops, Academia, Tolerance, Diversity
An Illinois college has restricted certain sections of a mandatory introductory course to black students.
“While helping my son register for college at Moraine Valley Community College, we noticed that the required course College 101 has two sections limited to African-American students," one concerned parent told The Chicago Tribune. "He wants to know why there are not two sections limited to Asian-American students? How about Native American students?"
This segregation of students by race seems odd, especially considering the course’s emphasis on diversity.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Oops, Gay, Tolerance, Sexism, Jobs, Diversity
Staff at the Human Rights Campaign last fall described the working environment at the nation’s largest LGBT rights group as “judgmental,” “exclusionary,” “sexist,” and “homogenous,” according to a sharply critical report that was commissioned by HRC and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Based on a series of focus groups and surveys with the staff, conducted by outside consultants, the report detailed systemic problems within HRC — ranging from treatment of employees, including those who are transgender, to concerns about human resources and organizational commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Government, Oops, Feminism, Metaphor, Sexism
Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is eight months pregnant and cannot travel to Washington, will not be allowed to vote by proxy in the upcoming leadership battles, as Democrats refused to make an exception to their hard-and-fast rules about proxy voting. National Journal reports that Duckworth, a Iraq War veteran and double amputee, wrote a letter to her colleagues, asking that she be allowed to participate in the votes...
Environmentalist, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Character, Racism
“Despite the growth in the ethnic minority population in the U.S., the percentage of minorities on the boards or general staff of environmental organizations does not exceed 16 percent in the three types of institutions studied,” reads a recent study from the University of Michigan. “Once hired in environmental organizations, ethnic minorities are concentrated in the lower ranks,” the study continued. “As a result, ethnic minorities occupy less than 12 percent of the leadership positions in the environmental organizations studied.”
"There’s always a reason for such little diversity in newsrooms. Over the course of time, the reasons always change, but the underrepresentation never does."
Mr. Leary, the Portland resident, calls the plight of black Americans in Portland "a great social crime" perpetrated not by overt white supremacists, but well-meaning liberal whites.
As with Bill Clinton, and his alleged assaults on Paula Jones, Juanita Broddrick and Kathleen Willey, tribal loyalties to party kin outweighed any concern for women as a group -- or for the accusers as individuals. The accusers were tossed over the side until the publicity became too strong to ignore. Democrats -- like Hillary with Bill -- stood by their man, Tammy Wynette-style. -Glenn Reynolds
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Character, Funny, Oops, Gay
President Bill Clinton released a statement, together with his wife Hillary Clinton, hailing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, a bill he signed into law in 1996.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Character, Gay
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will honor Bill Clinton later this month. Politico reports that the organization will present the former president with the Advocate for Change award at its media-award event in Los Angeles. “Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward,” GLAAD said in a statement. Clinton served as president during the implementation of two policies that were controversial within the gay community: the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military in 1993, and the Defense of Marriage of Act (DOMA), which he signed into law in 1996.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Hate, Violence, Character, Racism, Narrative, Smears, Gay, Tolerance, Assault
Three women arrested for assaulting a gay man at a Boston subway station say they can’t be charged with a hate crime because they are lesbians. Erica Stroud, 21, sister Felicia, 18, and Lydia Sanford, 20, are facing hate crime charges of assault and battery that, with convictions, could result in 10-year prison sentences, according to the Boston Herald.
Prosecutor Lindsey Weinstein said the women punched and kicked the unnamed man at a station in Jamaica Plain, all the while using anti-gay slurs. The assault allegedly occurred after the man, who suffered a broken nose, bumped into the women on a staircase.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Character, Sex, Degeneracy, Adult, Sexism
Gabryszak, a Buffalo-area legislator who’s been married for 37 years and has two adult children, started harassing Freling within days of hiring her, according to the court documents obtained by the Albany Times Union. In late 2011, Gabryszak told Freling he was sending her a recorded message to play to his constituents — but instead sent her a video “of him in a bathroom, either receiving or pretending to be receiving fellatio,” the papers allege. Freling said she quit in May after complaining to Gabryszak’s chief of staff to no avail. ... Last year, Gabryszak championed an anti-workplace-harassment bill.
Why does #AlecBaldwin get a pass when he uses gay slurs? If a conservative talked of beating up a "queen" they would be vilified. -Anderson Cooper
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Financial, Racism, Narrative, Oops
Democratic federal-level campaigns are paying minority staffers significantly less than their white counterparts, according to a study from the New Organizing Institute (NOI). "African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents on the dollar," writes Ethan Roeder, executive director of NOI.
"I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks.
And it's kind of ironic that it's working."
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Election, Hate, Character, Misogyny, Sexism, Assault
A Democratic state lawmaker says some of his colleagues told him to keep quiet allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a fellow legislator to protect the party's majority in upcoming elections. After WFPL News reported the accusations against state Rep. John Arnold, D-Sturgis, early Wednesday, Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, took to the House floor to speak out against what he described as a culture of intimidation and sexism in the legislature.
It isn't Richard Spencer calling the cops on me for farming while Black.
It's nervous White women in yoga pants with 'I'm with Her' and 'Coexist' stickers on their German SUVs.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Racism, Oops, Academia
...It is a documented fact that Asians face reverse discrimination in elite college admissions. Asians, on average, must score 140 points higher on the SAT exam in order to stand the same chance of admission as their non-Asian peers. -Nathan Harden
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Election, Hate, Character, Misogyny, Smears, Jobs
Inside the paper was an article bylined by Nuzzi in which she told a rather unflattering tale of her experience working on Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid. Now, Team Weiner is firing back. TPM called Weiner’s communications director Barbara Morgan to discuss an unrelated story Tuesday and she went off on a curse-filled rant about Nuzzi, describing her as a fame hungry “bitch” who “sucked” at her job. Morgan also called Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “tw-t,” and “c-nt” while threatening to sue her.
When white male President Mills pledges to press for race-based affirmative action, the right reply is this: "Well, then, sir, you must resign your post immediately and call for Bowdoin to hire a racial or ethnic minority in your place." Keep it simple and direct. Every white male board member of the ACE should receive a message to step down. Let's ask white male campus leaders to stand up for their own principles and do the thing they want everybody else to do. -Mark Bauerlein
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Character, Sex, Degeneracy, Misogyny, Feminism, Sexism
Facing calls for his resignation amid sexual harassment allegations, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologized Thursday for his treatment of women and vowed to change his behavior, admitting: "I need help." "I have reached into my heart and soul and realize I must and will change my behavior," the 70-year-old liberal Democrat said in a video statement, indicating he would not resign. He said he and his staff would take the sexual harassment training offered by the city. "If my behavior doesn't change, I cannot succeed in leading this city," Filner said.
Hypocrisy, Editorial, Liberal, Hate, Character, Racism, Fascism, Tolerance, Diversity
Harris claimed in his letter that two members of the board, Don Wasserman and Ann Hoffman, complained over his hiring of a white female, Erin Wilcox, because they perceived her "as being conservative or politically right-of-center." According to Harris, at a meeting on Nov. 8, 2012, Hoffman declared that "somebody with a resume like hers doesn't belong here" and "should never work here."
Hillary Supporter: Racial Epithet
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Misogyny, Racism, Smears, Protest, Adult, Sexism
While one Occupy DC protester spoke to The Daily Caller about what he called the downtown camp’s mistreatment of blacks and women, another interrupted the interview by yelling “Michelle Fields is a c—!” into TheDC’s microphone. The interviewed protester, an African-American, said he was disappointed with how some of the encampment’s white males treat females and minorities.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Government, Character, Misogyny, Brilliance, Oops, Politics, Feminism, Metaphor, Sexism
When a Republican state senator left the floor to nurse her newborn son, Democrats seized the opportunity for a quick vote without her.... State Senator Ann Rivers, also a Republican, is quoted as saying, "I think it is shameful for them to make her choose between being on the floor and voting and nursing her child. This caucus, which presents itself as being the caucus of families, would willingly drive a wedge between a mother and her infant? I think that is shameful. Just shameful. And deeply disappointing."
Once he broke free and swam to the surface, Kennedy said that he dove back down seven or eight times to rescue Kopechne. Failing, he swam back to shore and checked back into his hotel, and a short time later lodged a noise complaint with the desk clerk. The people in the room next to his were partying and it was interfering with his sleep. Then he asked the desk clerk for the time. According to the Aug. 4, 1969 edition of Newsweek, that clerk, Russell E. Peachey, told Kennedy it was 2:25 a.m., then asked, "Is there anything else I can do for you?" "No, thank you," Kennedy replied.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Sex, Justice, Law
In 1998, the Clinton administration brought obstruction of justice charges against Dr. Battalino based on her having given false testimony about a sexual relationship during a civil case. Dr. Battalino pled guilty to the charge and is currently serving a sentence of six months home detention.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Racism, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops
Obama came under criticism and mockery from the left and right when a photo of his Chicago campaign operation staff had barely a non-white face among them. All the talk about diversity was not practiced at his HQ. Elizabeth Warren has a similar problem, and has come under criticism from a liberal supporter when she posted a photo on her Facebook page of her campaign volunteers and interns during a visit by Debbie Wasserman Schultz today
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Election, Hate, Union, Character, Adult, Gay, Tolerance, Diversity
Last night Ross Hemminger, Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for Senate campaign, was heckled by pro-Warren supporters at the Brown-Warren debate. A source at the event told me that the hecklers were union members who were oganized by the Warren campaign for a “stand-out.” The incident happened when Hemminger started chanting “Go, Scott, go!” on the megaphone. The Warren supporters chanted back “You sound gay!” A few others chimed in “You take it up the a**!”
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Editorial, Liberal, Character, Tolerance
This reminds me of the time when Jesse Jackson was asked to come out against slavery, and the response from his office was "Right now slavery is not on his agenda." Of course not. There's no money in opposing it.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Gay, Jobs
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is vehemently denying allegations from a member of President Obama's gay rights issues panel, who claims he was fired from the civil rights leader's Rainbow PUSH Coalition because he is openly gay.
Four women who used to work for Google have won class-action status for their gender equity lawsuit against the search engine company, allowing them to represent some 10,800 women, Bloomberg reports...
The plaintiffs weren’t the only ones accusing Google of systematically underpaying female employees in 2017; the US Department of Labor also sued Google that year for withholding compensation data, and concluded three months later that Google was responsible for “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce.”
-Kim Lyons
Boston Pride, the organization that has organized the city’s Pride celebrations for 50 years, has announced it is shutting down.
The dissolution, announced Friday afternoon in a statement on the group’s website, comes after the reportedly all-white board of directors has faced ongoing accusations of ignoring racial minorities and transgender people.
-Dan Avery