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From the Montgomery Advertiser:
Southern Poverty Law Center won’t voluntarily recognize employee union
Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser Published 4:59 p.m. CT Nov. 12, 2019 |Southern Poverty Law Center management said Tuesday they would not voluntarily recognize a union organized by employees at the civil rights nonprofit and have hired a Virginia law firm whose website boasts about victories over labor organization attempts.
… The SPLC Union said in a statement Tuesday it was “disappointed” in the decision but that it would go through an election, if necessary.
“Management’s refusal to voluntarily recognize the union and decision to hire a law firm that specializes in ‘union avoidance strategies’ are counter to SPLC’s values,” the statement said. “The Center cannot truly claim to support workers’ rights, while also hiring a ‘union avoidance’ law firm to prevent its own workers from exercising our right to collective bargaining.”
SPLC employees formed the union after a year of turmoil in the civil rights organization that saw founder Morris Dees fired and several top executives, including President Richard Cohen and Legal Director Rhonda Brownstein, depart the SPLC.
The organization’s management have retained Hunton Andrews Kurth, a Richmond, Virginia-based law firm. The firm’s website says it advises businesses against “corporate campaigns” by unions, advocacy groups, and non-governmental organizations.
A message seeking comment was sent to Hunton Andrews Kurth on Tuesday. Amber Rogers, a labor relations attorney and partner in the firm, is advising SPLC management. She lists “union avoidance strategies” among her areas of expertise on her biography.
A message seeking comment was left with Rogers on Tuesday. Erik Olvera, a spokesman for SPLC, wrote Tuesday that Rogers “supports the work” of SPLC and “is one of the few women of color across the country, and black women in particular, who extensively practice labor law and possesses the type of experience we needed to guide us through this process.” …
Management signaled last week it would not voluntarily recognize the employees’ union. Under “Experience,” Hunton Andrews Kurth’s web page on labor management issues notes a “decisive victory” over the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW’s) attempt “to organize white-collar employees at a southeastern-based power company,” as well as an “overwhelming victory” over the IBEW in organizing nuclear power plant workers in North and South Carolina.
The firm has also hosted a webinar titled “Dodging Organized Labor’s One-Two Punch,” about micro-organizing rules that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) promulgated during President Barack Obama’s term.
…The organization for decades has faced accusations of internal discrimination against employees of color, particularly in the area of promotion. Earlier this year, whites held most leadership positions in the organization. Turnover at the SPLC has been high. Dees’ firing in March followed the resignation of an assistant legal director at SPLC over racial and gender equity concerns….
SPLC had $492.5 million in assets on Oct. 31, 2018, according to its most recent 990 form.
The Clintons and the Obamas are licking their chops to vacation in the Cayman Islands and pick up a few cont. ed. credits in international banking.
The asset number is too damn high.
Unions for Me, but not for Thee?
This is like trying to decide who to root for in a fight between an asp and a scorpion.
Unions are now associated with Deplorables who expect to share in the country’s wealth.
The question is: should the Deplorables be crushed completely; or should they just be crushed to the point of severe cripple-ness so the Goodthinkers can bask in the suffering?
My prescriptions are good for thee, but not for me.
Pharisees in the temple.
OT: it seems one can never have enough Applebaums
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/11/anne-applebaum-joins-atlantic-staff-writer/602083/
What we have here is outside agitators stirring up the working people at SPLC.
Outside agitators, I tell ya!
LOL.
“ is one of the few women of color across the country, and black women in particular, who extensively practice labor law”
False on many levels.
Black women (and women generally) in corporate law firms are disproportionately in labor and employment law. Probably their single best area, with white-collar criminal defense and medical malpractice distant seconds.
5 minutes on google will find dozens of high powered black woman corporate-side labor lawyers. One random example:
https://www.littler.com/people/latoi-d-mayo
Tax law, patent law, mergers and acquisitions, high end bankruptcy, is where there are virtually no WOC. Not even Asian women.
(Some areas of labor and employment law can be quite complicated – untangling violations of the ERISA, for instance – but the kind being talked about here – so called "discrimination" – are no more than shrill repetitions of "black blackety black!")
Unions are usually organized around a skill, trade or industry. Which of these things would a SPLC organize around and what would that thing be?
In that case I would say that they are organizing around an industry, the Anti-White industry. It’s one of the USA’s latest, thriving areas of growth and opportunity. This industry does have a limited long term future since it will eventually go the way of the whale oil and bison rug industries, but for the immediate future it still offers excellent career opportunities. Anyone is eligible to join in and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work in it, in fact excessive intelligence and awareness is probably a handicap.
So, is Rogers a black Republican, or a really greedy Democrat?
The shakedown industry.
The SPLC has no principles. It is all about the $$.
Alinsky says always make the opposition live up to its own rules. ROTFLMAO.
Hey, $492.5 million doesn’t go as far as it used to.
seems to be since they probably have the market cap of some silicon valley firms, that they are ripe for cannibalization by the progressive left…
Who thought so much money could be made selling white-guilt indulgences?
The problem is that there just aren’t unions around for every type of skill. These hardworking people at the Southern Poverty Law Center, though they get up at 10 O’clock at night, half an hour before they went to bed, walk 15 miles each way, uphill, for tupence a month in the dark damp offices, do not really have an organization to represent them.
They will need to form something new and appropriate for this difficult, demanding, but very specific trade – say the Society of Hate-seeking Youth Stopping The Extreme Rhetoric and Shit, with a Master Executive Council in Montgomery to interface with the Teamsters local 189 for the outsourcing of such services as strike protection and precision sports-venue burial work.
How is this even gonna work anyway? I hope they’re ready and able to throw bricks through the windshields of cars of the scabs that bust through during strikes to prevent a complete hate-loss on the line. This just-in-time stuff can wreak havoc.
The “P” in SPLC refers to the financial well being of their janitors.
Industry would be more than just literal industry, as in manufacturing, and could therefore encompass any organized enterprise.
In that case I would say that they are organizing around an industry, the Anti-White industry. It’s one of the USA’s latest, thriving areas of growth and opportunity. This industry does have a limited long term future since it will eventually go the way of the whale oil and bison rug industries, but for the immediate future it still offers excellent career opportunities. Anyone is eligible to join in and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work in it, in fact excessive intelligence and awareness is probably a handicap.
To decry those massacres and request an investigation of them was to be guilty of corruption, obstruction of justice, bribery, extortion, intimidation of witnesses, engaging in an unethical quid pro quo and seeking personal-political gain by slandering the deep Soviet State because Hitler was literally Trump.
(A Mid-Schumer Night's Wet
Dream)
Stalin, Stalin, burning bright
Katyn forests of the night
- William "Fake News" BlakeWynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off on the Aral Sea
Ran aground and found cotton
For slaves to pick for free
- Eugene "Poppycock Ned Flanders" Fieldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTvdquCDNMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
A few years ago when discussing Antifa violence on reddit, a self-proclaimed Antifa activist admitted the “special relationship” between the SPLC and Antifa. Antifa is a terrorist organization, and the SPLC is its legal front group. Pretty much the same sort of relationship as between the IRA and Sein Feinn.
Sailer has done great work exposing Morris Dees’ grift.
Unfortunately, conservatives – the dumbest people in America – still say, “oh, the SPLC used to do good work against the KKK, but now they have gone too far.” No. The SPLC was a grift from the very start, simply a for-profit venture more lucrative than Dees’ earlier direct mail company. Various Southerners were pioneers in direct mail, likely because of the more rural nature of the South made it more cost-effective than Northern-style urban door-to-door campaigning and marketing.
Sailer has pointed out how the name “SPLC” was likely chosen to mimic Martin Luther King’s old group SCLC, confusing donors who likely assumed they were the same, or allied, groups. Sailer also pointed out that the Civil Rights movement had already “won” and the actual Ku Klux Klan was already destroyed by the time Dees started the SPLC.
So, no, conservatives – the SPLC was never “good” – it was always a scam and a front group for leftist terrorism.
Like the ADL, virtually 100% of the “mainstream” media takes the SPLC at face value and represents them as some sort of “neutral” “civil rights” group fighting “hate.” It is anything but “neutral” – it is an anti-white, anti-Christian far-left lobby with a terrorist arm.
Why is it that virtually the entire mass media, TV stations and newspapers, pretend that the ADL and the SPLC are “neutral” non-profits that “fight hate?”
I suspect that the SPLC outlived their usefulness when they started attacking socially conservative Christians who didn’t support same-sex marriage. Finally, the Republicans started – timidly – to fight back.
Of course, the real problem is not the SPLC, the real problem is the mass media who amplify their smears and actively encourage Antifa terrorist violence.
https://bannedhipster.home.blog/
Fried Chicken Sandwich Workers of America
We need a wealth tax on “non-profit” organizations.
Modern companies are woke in all but one way. Whole divisions were dedicated to diversity. That wasn’t enough, so they added inclusion divisions as well. (National Parks and Recreation Services has tagged “Relevancy” on, not sure if that is a trend or if it goes by the natural abbreviation ORDI (Office of Relevancy, Diversity, and Inclusion) which I would pronounce “Or Die.”)
But despite being woke in so many ways, progressive companies continue to be anti-union to the core.
We see this today as news about Southern Poverty Law Center comes out. They hire an anti-union form and refuse to voluntarily recognize the union.
With the spotlight on, SPLC will squirm to not fight back too hard, but we can be sure that its leaders surely want no part of a union representing its employees. Neither does Amazon or Walmart.
Big or small, for profit or for tax purposes, few woke organizations want to honor the first workplace civil right. Perhaps that’s why Congress never seems to find a way to give some teeth to the NLRA or at least replace its broken dentures.
Hey Steve, it’s black women and hair and not exercising. I’m sure you will enjoy this
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/11/14/Hair-care-a-barrier-to-exercise-for-black-women-study-says/3881573769159/?sl=11
OT
Steve on his Twitter feed retweeted a Claire Lehmann tweet showing a slide from a presentation by an organization in Washington called Washington STEM.
The Seattle schools were recently in the news for a new math curriculum that teaches woke math, i.e., that math is racist. Washington STEM pushes that kind of stuff, including this slide that explicitly says that differences in group outcome can only be because of racist bigotry, and that school employees have a responsibility to see to it that data collected cannot be used for racist purposes. I’m not sure where this is going, but it sounds like a combination of not collecting, obfuscating, or falsifying data, while simply of giving black kids grades they don’t deserve to equalize their averages with white and Asian kids.
At any rate, another thing caught my interest. I have noticed the prevalence of blacks in the news who have law degrees, but do not work in the law. Not working in the law seems to be the norm for blacks with law degrees (am I using data to notice bigoted things?).
The new director of Washington STEM, Angela Jones, graduated from Gonzaga Law School about four years ago, never passed (or took?) the bar, is not a member of the Washington Bar Association, yet proudly uses JD after her name. Her time spent after law school was in university administration roles at a small Washington college.
Law schools seem to have developed a black path by which black students are unflunkable and are guided through the school and ejected on the other end. Some pass the bar and spend a couple of years in a glorified paralegal role. Some go directly into non law jobs like Ms. Jones.
I've also noticed STEMish undergrad degrees being used as a filter for entry level business hiring. Math, biology, an occasional physics majors from mid level universities. I think the general business degrees, liberal arts and MBA programs don't have any useful signal anymore that an applicant knows anything.Replies: @Anon, @Redneck farmer, @Anon
Seriously though the % of blacks lawyers and doctors has been pretty constant for 100 years. I remember Buckley, during a debate with Baldwin, citing a statistic that the % of blacks doctors was the same as it was in 1900. The debate occurred in 1960s. A few years ago the NYT said the number of black male doctors was the same as it was in the late 70s.
Steve, I’m sure it was just an oversight on your part, but in the future when linking to articles please link to the article on the subject in a major outletslike the New York Times or the Washington Post. The Montgomery Advertiser is just a local fish wrap. I want to read the well-researched, penetrating, democracy-dies-in-darkness, fit-to-print journalistic takes of the major bastions of truth. I’m sure they covered this, right?
“Montgomery Advertisers” reporters drink in the same bars as SPLC employees. That’s how they came up with the idea for their 1994 investigative report into the less publicized aspects of the SPLC.
But despite being woke in so many ways, progressive companies continue to be anti-union to the core.
We see this today as news about Southern Poverty Law Center comes out. They hire an anti-union form and refuse to voluntarily recognize the union.
With the spotlight on, SPLC will squirm to not fight back too hard, but we can be sure that its leaders surely want no part of a union representing its employees. Neither does Amazon or Walmart.
Big or small, for profit or for tax purposes, few woke organizations want to honor the first workplace civil right. Perhaps that's why Congress never seems to find a way to give some teeth to the NLRA or at least replace its broken dentures.Replies: @BannedHipster, @Lurker, @dfordoom
When the Marxist Jews fleeing European fascism came to America, they weren’t going to work digging ditches or farming. And WASP oligarchs like the Rockefellers weren’t going to pay them to agitate for Communism, or even for old-fashioned labor unions agitating for higher wages.
So what did they do? They turned class-struggle Marxism into “cultural Marxism.”
Instead of “class” being defined as your relationship to the means of production – the class struggle meaning the class that owned the means of production against the class that sold their labor for money – “class” was instead defined as “social class.”
So instead of working class Americans vs. the Rockefellers, the Marxist Jews working for the Rockefeller made “class struggle” into a “struggle” of white women vs. white men. Whites vs. blacks. Straights vs. gays.
This was not just compatible with Rockefeller capitalism, it was extremely useful to Rockefeller capitalists. Ethnic diversity and feminism were great at destroying working class solidarity.
Too bad the short-sighted WASPs like the Rockefellers apparently didn’t realize that these cultural Marxist Jews could – and would – use this to completely replace the Rockefeller WASP elite with themselves as the new Jewish elites.
Ironically – or not – we see now that these cultural Marxist Jews are themselves being replaced by various Black, Indian, Latinx and even LGBT elites that couldn’t care less about the apartheid regime of Jew bigotry in Zionist-occupied Palestine.
Who cares about six million Jews dying in “the Holocaust?” 600 million niggas on those slave ships in the African Hellacaust!
Who cares about German Jews in 1940? What about millions of Indigenous Latinx slaughtered by Columbus?
The cultural Marxist Jews find themselves on the wrong side of history and being pushed down the victim hierarchy. Sure, maybe some Yankee WASP could be white-guilted for not letting your Uncle Schlomo into the Presbyterian golf club, but Lee Chin, “Michael” Patel, and Trayvon Jefferson don’t give a damn.
History marches on.
That is what I was wondering. What is the purpose of the union? I wonder if the SPLC’s stupid donors will side with management or the employees.
Well-Off-To-Wealthy Penthouse Bolshevik New Economic Policy Clinton-Obama-Sanders-Schiff-SPLC types did some Katyn-picking out of forests suitable for “…mass executions of about 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia…”
To decry those massacres and request an investigation of them was to be guilty of corruption, obstruction of justice, bribery, extortion, intimidation of witnesses, engaging in an unethical quid pro quo and seeking personal-political gain by slandering the deep Soviet State because Hitler was literally Trump.
(A Mid-Schumer Night’s Wet
Dream)
Stalin, Stalin, burning bright
Katyn forests of the night
– William “Fake News” Blake
Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off on the Aral Sea
Ran aground and found cotton
For slaves to pick for free
– Eugene “Poppycock Ned Flanders” Field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Sailer has done great work exposing Morris Dees' grift.
Unfortunately, conservatives - the dumbest people in America - still say, "oh, the SPLC used to do good work against the KKK, but now they have gone too far." No. The SPLC was a grift from the very start, simply a for-profit venture more lucrative than Dees' earlier direct mail company. Various Southerners were pioneers in direct mail, likely because of the more rural nature of the South made it more cost-effective than Northern-style urban door-to-door campaigning and marketing.
Sailer has pointed out how the name "SPLC" was likely chosen to mimic Martin Luther King's old group SCLC, confusing donors who likely assumed they were the same, or allied, groups. Sailer also pointed out that the Civil Rights movement had already "won" and the actual Ku Klux Klan was already destroyed by the time Dees started the SPLC.
So, no, conservatives - the SPLC was never "good" - it was always a scam and a front group for leftist terrorism.
Like the ADL, virtually 100% of the "mainstream" media takes the SPLC at face value and represents them as some sort of "neutral" "civil rights" group fighting "hate." It is anything but "neutral" - it is an anti-white, anti-Christian far-left lobby with a terrorist arm.
Why is it that virtually the entire mass media, TV stations and newspapers, pretend that the ADL and the SPLC are "neutral" non-profits that "fight hate?"
I suspect that the SPLC outlived their usefulness when they started attacking socially conservative Christians who didn't support same-sex marriage. Finally, the Republicans started - timidly - to fight back.
Of course, the real problem is not the SPLC, the real problem is the mass media who amplify their smears and actively encourage Antifa terrorist violence.
https://bannedhipster.home.blog/Replies: @Lurker, @fnn
For similar reasons the mass media pretend they themselves are neutral.
But despite being woke in so many ways, progressive companies continue to be anti-union to the core.
We see this today as news about Southern Poverty Law Center comes out. They hire an anti-union form and refuse to voluntarily recognize the union.
With the spotlight on, SPLC will squirm to not fight back too hard, but we can be sure that its leaders surely want no part of a union representing its employees. Neither does Amazon or Walmart.
Big or small, for profit or for tax purposes, few woke organizations want to honor the first workplace civil right. Perhaps that's why Congress never seems to find a way to give some teeth to the NLRA or at least replace its broken dentures.Replies: @BannedHipster, @Lurker, @dfordoom
It’s positively Orwellian! The Ministry of Relevancy is concerned with irrelevancy.
We want more people like us there! Diversity. Now we are here, but we don’t feel like we are part of it! Inclusion. We are here and we are part of this, but the organization doesn’t have the goal of helping my people. Relevancy. Once the org is diverse, inclusive, and relevant it is fully subverted
Perhaps that’s why the important jobs at SPLC seem to be going to Atlanta.
Spelled M-G-T-O-W.
This is the ultimate irony. SPLC is a union buster. Ha! Even grabby Morris didn’t try to sic lawyers on his own employees.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/11/14/Hair-care-a-barrier-to-exercise-for-black-women-study-says/3881573769159/?sl=11Replies: @Anon
Nonsense. Haircare is very good for exercising those arm muscles. When you spend an hour a day with your arms held over your head screwing around with your hair, it’s a real workout. Just try holding your arms over your head for 10 minutes. It’s exhausting. Upper arm exercises increase your testosterone levels (whereas lower body exercises like walking do not), and that’s how Michelle got those toned arms. It’s also may be why (ahem) black women have higher testosterone than white women.
Outside agitators, I tell ya!Replies: @Lugash
Outside agitators, from Up North?
LOL.
Steve on his Twitter feed retweeted a Claire Lehmann tweet showing a slide from a presentation by an organization in Washington called Washington STEM.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJde8CmVAAEUDHi.jpg
The Seattle schools were recently in the news for a new math curriculum that teaches woke math, i.e., that math is racist. Washington STEM pushes that kind of stuff, including this slide that explicitly says that differences in group outcome can only be because of racist bigotry, and that school employees have a responsibility to see to it that data collected cannot be used for racist purposes. I'm not sure where this is going, but it sounds like a combination of not collecting, obfuscating, or falsifying data, while simply of giving black kids grades they don't deserve to equalize their averages with white and Asian kids.
At any rate, another thing caught my interest. I have noticed the prevalence of blacks in the news who have law degrees, but do not work in the law. Not working in the law seems to be the norm for blacks with law degrees (am I using data to notice bigoted things?).
The new director of Washington STEM, Angela Jones, graduated from Gonzaga Law School about four years ago, never passed (or took?) the bar, is not a member of the Washington Bar Association, yet proudly uses JD after her name. Her time spent after law school was in university administration roles at a small Washington college.
Law schools seem to have developed a black path by which black students are unflunkable and are guided through the school and ejected on the other end. Some pass the bar and spend a couple of years in a glorified paralegal role. Some go directly into non law jobs like Ms. Jones.Replies: @Lugash, @Ed
Whites with law degrees not working in law(voluntarily or involuntarily) is a thing as well.
I’ve also noticed STEMish undergrad degrees being used as a filter for entry level business hiring. Math, biology, an occasional physics majors from mid level universities. I think the general business degrees, liberal arts and MBA programs don’t have any useful signal anymore that an applicant knows anything.
When Richard Sander first began writing about law school mismatch (blacks being admitted to schools above what their LSATs merit), a big problem was blacks washing out. Now they don't wash out. The same kids manage to graduate. The law schools see to that. The rubber hits the road when the black graduates get jobs, not in law school.
You'd think that delayed rubber-roading would be bad for the debt-burdened black law grads, and I think it is for most. But these non profit directorship type jobs are probably a pretty good gig. Another common gig for law firm wash-out blacks is, get this, law school professorships. Every school has a few of these guys on faculty.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @william munny
The key point is that it's not that the major indicates "that an applicant knows anything," but rather how intelligent, as in IQ, an applicant is. If you can believe Bryan "Open Borders" Caplan, who reviewed education research in depth for his previous book, students don't learn much in college, however bright they are, with the exception of some STEM students learning specific STEM stuff.
Nevertheless, there are STEM "reforms" underway that will require a closer look by employers at STEM degrees. I would want to see a class-by-class transcript, checking especially for advanced math classes, and eventually it may be necessary to check on professors, since there are woke math professors who allow take-home, open-book, student-collaboration-okay exams now.
We can only hope and the sooner the better. Come on radical Dem numbnutz. Bring forks and knives !…. Free feasting on Morris Dees’ soon to be corpse.
OT;
https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/
The Macintosh was actually a step backward from its predecessors at Xerox PARC and Symbolics in a few ways, but it did move the graphical interface forward as well in several novel ways.
Tell me the Sister was first chair on a case where they kep the Bruthas down.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/The Macintosh was actually a step backward from its predecessors at Xerox PARC and Symbolics in a few ways, but it did move the graphical interface forward as well in several novel ways.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
They never heard of “down and locked” landing gear lights? How about squat switches (a little later probably) for the opposite move on the ground?
I've also noticed STEMish undergrad degrees being used as a filter for entry level business hiring. Math, biology, an occasional physics majors from mid level universities. I think the general business degrees, liberal arts and MBA programs don't have any useful signal anymore that an applicant knows anything.Replies: @Anon, @Redneck farmer, @Anon
Yes, of course. For every black there is a corresponding white person, because the bell curve for blacks tucks nicely into the left side of that for whites. But for every white, for instance at Harvard Law, there isn’t a corresponding black. Every year you get the new Ivy grads at New York white shoes. Two or three years later all the blacks are gone, and some of the whites are gone, while other whites are on partner track.
When Richard Sander first began writing about law school mismatch (blacks being admitted to schools above what their LSATs merit), a big problem was blacks washing out. Now they don’t wash out. The same kids manage to graduate. The law schools see to that. The rubber hits the road when the black graduates get jobs, not in law school.
You’d think that delayed rubber-roading would be bad for the debt-burdened black law grads, and I think it is for most. But these non profit directorship type jobs are probably a pretty good gig. Another common gig for law firm wash-out blacks is, get this, law school professorships. Every school has a few of these guys on faculty.
I've also noticed STEMish undergrad degrees being used as a filter for entry level business hiring. Math, biology, an occasional physics majors from mid level universities. I think the general business degrees, liberal arts and MBA programs don't have any useful signal anymore that an applicant knows anything.Replies: @Anon, @Redneck farmer, @Anon
Sending your daughter to law school so she finds a man to support her is a thing, though people deny it.
When Richard Sander first began writing about law school mismatch (blacks being admitted to schools above what their LSATs merit), a big problem was blacks washing out. Now they don't wash out. The same kids manage to graduate. The law schools see to that. The rubber hits the road when the black graduates get jobs, not in law school.
You'd think that delayed rubber-roading would be bad for the debt-burdened black law grads, and I think it is for most. But these non profit directorship type jobs are probably a pretty good gig. Another common gig for law firm wash-out blacks is, get this, law school professorships. Every school has a few of these guys on faculty.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @william munny
Michelle Obama is an informative example: she got into Harvard Law School despite being only moderately smart, then she failed to pass the relatively easy Illinois bar exam during her first opportunity, then passed it during her second try. She got hired by a Big Law Chicago firm, Sidley Austin. It quickly became clear she wouldn’t make partner, but she got assigned to mentor a much more promising Harvard Law student named Barack Obama, who had, presumably, scored in the 94th or 98th percentile on the LSAT, married him, and then soon dropped out of the legal profession to go to work for Valerie Jarrett in the Richie Daley civic administration.
How in the hell did Obama score in mid to upper 90th percentile on the LSAT with
IQ of 105? Affirmative action got him into college and law school. email me
your opinion please.
Crafty of the SPLC to hire a black woman to do union busting.
Steve on his Twitter feed retweeted a Claire Lehmann tweet showing a slide from a presentation by an organization in Washington called Washington STEM.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJde8CmVAAEUDHi.jpg
The Seattle schools were recently in the news for a new math curriculum that teaches woke math, i.e., that math is racist. Washington STEM pushes that kind of stuff, including this slide that explicitly says that differences in group outcome can only be because of racist bigotry, and that school employees have a responsibility to see to it that data collected cannot be used for racist purposes. I'm not sure where this is going, but it sounds like a combination of not collecting, obfuscating, or falsifying data, while simply of giving black kids grades they don't deserve to equalize their averages with white and Asian kids.
At any rate, another thing caught my interest. I have noticed the prevalence of blacks in the news who have law degrees, but do not work in the law. Not working in the law seems to be the norm for blacks with law degrees (am I using data to notice bigoted things?).
The new director of Washington STEM, Angela Jones, graduated from Gonzaga Law School about four years ago, never passed (or took?) the bar, is not a member of the Washington Bar Association, yet proudly uses JD after her name. Her time spent after law school was in university administration roles at a small Washington college.
Law schools seem to have developed a black path by which black students are unflunkable and are guided through the school and ejected on the other end. Some pass the bar and spend a couple of years in a glorified paralegal role. Some go directly into non law jobs like Ms. Jones.Replies: @Lugash, @Ed
Time to decolonize the bar exam I suppose.
Seriously though the % of blacks lawyers and doctors has been pretty constant for 100 years. I remember Buckley, during a debate with Baldwin, citing a statistic that the % of blacks doctors was the same as it was in 1900. The debate occurred in 1960s. A few years ago the NYT said the number of black male doctors was the same as it was in the late 70s.
When Richard Sander first began writing about law school mismatch (blacks being admitted to schools above what their LSATs merit), a big problem was blacks washing out. Now they don't wash out. The same kids manage to graduate. The law schools see to that. The rubber hits the road when the black graduates get jobs, not in law school.
You'd think that delayed rubber-roading would be bad for the debt-burdened black law grads, and I think it is for most. But these non profit directorship type jobs are probably a pretty good gig. Another common gig for law firm wash-out blacks is, get this, law school professorships. Every school has a few of these guys on faculty.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @william munny
Yes, and many companies and most of the large firms are hiring diversity officers, which is a natural fit for washouts. With woke companies forcing diversity on the firms they hire, law firms are scrambling to find some way to retain them.
Whoever thought of that idea probably saw “Hamilton” demonstrating the virtues of woke capital.
As Sailer said regarding Jackson:
“But since standing up for the implicitly white little guy is racist, we now stand up for the big guy. (Who is almost always white. Funny how that works…)”
Sailer has done great work exposing Morris Dees' grift.
Unfortunately, conservatives - the dumbest people in America - still say, "oh, the SPLC used to do good work against the KKK, but now they have gone too far." No. The SPLC was a grift from the very start, simply a for-profit venture more lucrative than Dees' earlier direct mail company. Various Southerners were pioneers in direct mail, likely because of the more rural nature of the South made it more cost-effective than Northern-style urban door-to-door campaigning and marketing.
Sailer has pointed out how the name "SPLC" was likely chosen to mimic Martin Luther King's old group SCLC, confusing donors who likely assumed they were the same, or allied, groups. Sailer also pointed out that the Civil Rights movement had already "won" and the actual Ku Klux Klan was already destroyed by the time Dees started the SPLC.
So, no, conservatives - the SPLC was never "good" - it was always a scam and a front group for leftist terrorism.
Like the ADL, virtually 100% of the "mainstream" media takes the SPLC at face value and represents them as some sort of "neutral" "civil rights" group fighting "hate." It is anything but "neutral" - it is an anti-white, anti-Christian far-left lobby with a terrorist arm.
Why is it that virtually the entire mass media, TV stations and newspapers, pretend that the ADL and the SPLC are "neutral" non-profits that "fight hate?"
I suspect that the SPLC outlived their usefulness when they started attacking socially conservative Christians who didn't support same-sex marriage. Finally, the Republicans started - timidly - to fight back.
Of course, the real problem is not the SPLC, the real problem is the mass media who amplify their smears and actively encourage Antifa terrorist violence.
https://bannedhipster.home.blog/Replies: @Lurker, @fnn
I’m pretty sure National Lawyers Guild is the main legal front group for Antifa.
While it’s ironic that they are against their own workers forming a labor union, I actually agree with SPLC brass. These workers don’t deserve a labor union. The organization is essentially a massive junk mail scam grafting off of the good hearts and deep wallets of SWPL types. Often these SWPL can’t tell the difference between the SPLC and the SCLC, who’s initials the SPLC are meant to evoke. Labor unions are good for laborers who are actually productive members of society. SPLC grunts are not productive members of society, they don’t deserve pensions or bank loans, and they sure as hell don’t deserve a labor union.
extortionists union local 55
But despite being woke in so many ways, progressive companies continue to be anti-union to the core.
We see this today as news about Southern Poverty Law Center comes out. They hire an anti-union form and refuse to voluntarily recognize the union.
With the spotlight on, SPLC will squirm to not fight back too hard, but we can be sure that its leaders surely want no part of a union representing its employees. Neither does Amazon or Walmart.
Big or small, for profit or for tax purposes, few woke organizations want to honor the first workplace civil right. Perhaps that's why Congress never seems to find a way to give some teeth to the NLRA or at least replace its broken dentures.Replies: @BannedHipster, @Lurker, @dfordoom
The wokeness of big business is just a way of keeping workers divided and demoralised and easily exploited. Wokeness is a right-wing plot, not a left-wing plot.
Steve,
How in the hell did Obama score in mid to upper 90th percentile on the LSAT with
IQ of 105? Affirmative action got him into college and law school. email me
your opinion please.
This message forum I used to post on let ppl like your posts. When Bush was president my pro union posts would get 10 plus likes.
Starting round 2011 this shrill libertarian sjw neocon startedposting calling ppl who didn’t support gay marriage neo Nazis…he was a Hitchenite freak….anyway round that time I noticed people stopped liking my union posts & focused instead on gay this, trans that, women’s rights this….at that point, around 2012, I knew it was over.
The question is: should the Deplorables be crushed completely; or should they just be crushed to the point of severe cripple-ness so the Goodthinkers can bask in the suffering?Replies: @Trutherator
Assembly is a right recognized in the Bill of rights. Forced dues collections of outvoted members is pur theft.
Who says the SPLC’s donors are stupid? The bigger ones, anyway. Maybe the SPLC is delivering the exact service that its’ donors pay them for.
Note to SPLC workers: “Strike! Strike! Strike!.”
I’d say it’s a plot by businessmen to distract the left wing from things that might be more injurious to their bottom line, like forming unions, raising wages, and making it harder to move capital overseas.
Right-wing? Depends on your definition of the term. I’d say ‘elite right-wing’, ‘plutocratic’, or ‘oligarchic’, as right-wing populists are anti-woke.
The problem with right-wing populists is that for the most part they are fully supportive of the same economic/political ideologies that the right-wing plutocrats support. They are generally in favour of union-busting, they are generally supportive of the right of employers to pay starvation wages if they can get away with it, they are generally supportive of free trade and they're more paranoid about even the slightest suspicion of socialism than they are about predatory capitalism. Right-wing populists cling to the belief that class doesn't matter.
Most right-wing populists think they can have capitalism without the wokeness, but it's not possible. The wokeness is inherent in capitalism. Capitalism will always use all available methods to keep the lower classes divided and demoralised, and they've discovered that wokeness is absolutely the best method for doing that ever devised. The plutocrats will never give up such a useful weapon. They will never give up on identity politics because it serves their purposes perfectly.
You cannot get rid of wokeness without getting rid of the plutocracy. And right-wing populists won't do that because that would be communism!
The problem cannot be solved without borrowing some of the ideas of old-fashioned Old School leftism. Even perhaps one or two vaguely socialistic ideas. But right-wingers head for the fainting couch when they hear such suggestions. The fact is that the Right does not have the answers.Replies: @nebulafox, @James Forrestal
They bring in more than they spend every year. The donors are paying for high salaries and padding the endowment. Maybe that is what they want, but seems unlikely for most.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-11-09/farm-workers-recruited-from-mexico-lost-wages
Is that a transvestite support group?
In the 1970s, Detroit Teamsters Local 299 (yeah, Jimmy Hoffa’s local) secretarial staff made attempts to unionize.
The Teamsters union opposed their unionization.
It was hilarious to see the office staff walking around with picket signs outside of the union headquarters on Trumbull Street.
Maybe the donors want a group defining what is and what is not hate (especially for law enforcement agencies). Maybe they want an organization that stifles and villifies any dissent by groups that advocate implicitly white (gentile) interests. Maybe they’re happy to pay a large premium for that. You want results, you pay for them.
So you must be in favor of SPLC. Because you are against unions.
Against unions. Could anyone be dumber? Against unions. Sheeziz.
I've also noticed STEMish undergrad degrees being used as a filter for entry level business hiring. Math, biology, an occasional physics majors from mid level universities. I think the general business degrees, liberal arts and MBA programs don't have any useful signal anymore that an applicant knows anything.Replies: @Anon, @Redneck farmer, @Anon
Good point. Undergraduate business majors were always a joke, a place for the people who flunked out of everything else. Education majors are the same. Maybe psych fits in there also. And now you have all the “studies.” I think history is also pretty much a goner at this point, based on a young relative of mine who ended up there.
The key point is that it’s not that the major indicates “that an applicant knows anything,” but rather how intelligent, as in IQ, an applicant is. If you can believe Bryan “Open Borders” Caplan, who reviewed education research in depth for his previous book, students don’t learn much in college, however bright they are, with the exception of some STEM students learning specific STEM stuff.
Nevertheless, there are STEM “reforms” underway that will require a closer look by employers at STEM degrees. I would want to see a class-by-class transcript, checking especially for advanced math classes, and eventually it may be necessary to check on professors, since there are woke math professors who allow take-home, open-book, student-collaboration-okay exams now.
Broadly speaking I agree.
The problem with right-wing populists is that for the most part they are fully supportive of the same economic/political ideologies that the right-wing plutocrats support. They are generally in favour of union-busting, they are generally supportive of the right of employers to pay starvation wages if they can get away with it, they are generally supportive of free trade and they’re more paranoid about even the slightest suspicion of socialism than they are about predatory capitalism. Right-wing populists cling to the belief that class doesn’t matter.
Most right-wing populists think they can have capitalism without the wokeness, but it’s not possible. The wokeness is inherent in capitalism. Capitalism will always use all available methods to keep the lower classes divided and demoralised, and they’ve discovered that wokeness is absolutely the best method for doing that ever devised. The plutocrats will never give up such a useful weapon. They will never give up on identity politics because it serves their purposes perfectly.
You cannot get rid of wokeness without getting rid of the plutocracy. And right-wing populists won’t do that because that would be communism!
The problem cannot be solved without borrowing some of the ideas of old-fashioned Old School leftism. Even perhaps one or two vaguely socialistic ideas. But right-wingers head for the fainting couch when they hear such suggestions. The fact is that the Right does not have the answers.
But in terms of the actual electorate? What regular people want? It's just another long-discredited semitic canard:
https://i.postimg.cc/Qdjry2sr/Libertarians-Don-t-Exist-in-Real-World.png
Bottom right is "woke capital" and "Dude, weed bro" lolbertarians. Huh. See how popular that combination (muh "fiscally conservative, socially liberal") is in the real world?
Top left? Uh, those people don't exist -- in terms of The Narrative, anyway.
It's just as true to point out that shitlibs fight much harder for unrestrained non-white invasion, chemical castration of children, drag queen story hour, mandatory buttseks, and the poz in general than for leftist economic policies.
@nebulafoxHere's black Marxist Adolph Reed Jr. with an interesting take on the tranny insanity (and on identity politics in general). I don't agree with much of his worldview, but at least he makes some effort to be an internally consistent social constructionist.
Of course, none of this really matters once a society achieves truly toxic levels of vibrant diversity,...because people are too focused on the interests of their racial/ ethnic identity group to worry about ideological or class issues.
https://i.postimg.cc/cCv0m2qN/Lee-Kwan-Yew-Multiracial-Societies.jpg
False on many levels.
Black women (and women generally) in corporate law firms are disproportionately in labor and employment law. Probably their single best area, with white-collar criminal defense and medical malpractice distant seconds.
5 minutes on google will find dozens of high powered black woman corporate-side labor lawyers. One random example:
https://www.littler.com/people/latoi-d-mayo
Tax law, patent law, mergers and acquisitions, high end bankruptcy, is where there are virtually no WOC. Not even Asian women.Replies: @Autochthon
That’s because tax, patents, mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcy are difficult matters, requiring facility with mathematics and sophisticated, abstract thinking to account for multiple, interdependent contingencies; so-called employment discrimination law is voodoo schucking and jiving on par with Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer’s emotional pleas that clients who slip and fall in supermarkets are entitled to no less than one million dollars in punitive damages and one million dollars in compensatory damages, because, “ladies and gentlemen and zhirpersons of the jury, there are five white managers and no managers of color – I rest my case!”
(Some areas of labor and employment law can be quite complicated – untangling violations of the ERISA, for instance – but the kind being talked about here – so called “discrimination” – are no more than shrill repetitions of “black blackety black!”)
White genocide doesn’t come cheap.
It is gratifying to learn that the Southern Propaganda and Lies Center is not exactly beset by poverty – and is apparently willing and able to carefully husband its loot. Wouldn’t do to waste it on the working stiffs.
The problem with right-wing populists is that for the most part they are fully supportive of the same economic/political ideologies that the right-wing plutocrats support. They are generally in favour of union-busting, they are generally supportive of the right of employers to pay starvation wages if they can get away with it, they are generally supportive of free trade and they're more paranoid about even the slightest suspicion of socialism than they are about predatory capitalism. Right-wing populists cling to the belief that class doesn't matter.
Most right-wing populists think they can have capitalism without the wokeness, but it's not possible. The wokeness is inherent in capitalism. Capitalism will always use all available methods to keep the lower classes divided and demoralised, and they've discovered that wokeness is absolutely the best method for doing that ever devised. The plutocrats will never give up such a useful weapon. They will never give up on identity politics because it serves their purposes perfectly.
You cannot get rid of wokeness without getting rid of the plutocracy. And right-wing populists won't do that because that would be communism!
The problem cannot be solved without borrowing some of the ideas of old-fashioned Old School leftism. Even perhaps one or two vaguely socialistic ideas. But right-wingers head for the fainting couch when they hear such suggestions. The fact is that the Right does not have the answers.Replies: @nebulafox, @James Forrestal
Economic Right and Cultural Left: two sides of the same toxic coin. I will give the old fashioned socialists credit where it is due, they would have been appalled at the idea of attacking the classics and Western culture in general: they were ideologically, after all, very much a product of Western culture and philosophy, as much as old line conservatives. They (mostly) wanted to change the West’s economic system, not abolish or utterly socially transform society. By contrast, I cannot see any coherent goal from the New Left other than permanent revolution, one that Corporate America would love to fuel because the resulting social atomization increases their power.
This needs to be hammered home, again and again and again. The battle is no longer between natural liberals and natural conservatives, it is between those who want to turn the United States into a giant anarchic box store and those who don’t.
Workers‘ rights are civil rights. Human rights, even.
Oy vey.
The problem with right-wing populists is that for the most part they are fully supportive of the same economic/political ideologies that the right-wing plutocrats support. They are generally in favour of union-busting, they are generally supportive of the right of employers to pay starvation wages if they can get away with it, they are generally supportive of free trade and they're more paranoid about even the slightest suspicion of socialism than they are about predatory capitalism. Right-wing populists cling to the belief that class doesn't matter.
Most right-wing populists think they can have capitalism without the wokeness, but it's not possible. The wokeness is inherent in capitalism. Capitalism will always use all available methods to keep the lower classes divided and demoralised, and they've discovered that wokeness is absolutely the best method for doing that ever devised. The plutocrats will never give up such a useful weapon. They will never give up on identity politics because it serves their purposes perfectly.
You cannot get rid of wokeness without getting rid of the plutocracy. And right-wing populists won't do that because that would be communism!
The problem cannot be solved without borrowing some of the ideas of old-fashioned Old School leftism. Even perhaps one or two vaguely socialistic ideas. But right-wingers head for the fainting couch when they hear such suggestions. The fact is that the Right does not have the answers.Replies: @nebulafox, @James Forrestal
This is true in terms of narrative options promoted by the establishment media — both “liberal” and “conservative” — and in terms of the choices presented by the [donor-driven] agendas of the establishment political parties. That’s how the kosher sandwich works: “Choose this one, or that one, goy!”
But in terms of the actual electorate? What regular people want? It’s just another long-discredited semitic canard:
Bottom right is “woke capital” and “Dude, weed bro” lolbertarians. Huh. See how popular that combination (muh “fiscally conservative, socially liberal”) is in the real world?
Top left? Uh, those people don’t exist — in terms of The Narrative, anyway.
It’s just as true to point out that shitlibs fight much harder for unrestrained non-white invasion, chemical castration of children, drag queen story hour, mandatory buttseks, and the poz in general than for leftist economic policies.
Here’s black Marxist Adolph Reed Jr. with an interesting take on the tranny insanity (and on identity politics in general). I don’t agree with much of his worldview, but at least he makes some effort to be an internally consistent social constructionist.
Of course, none of this really matters once a society achieves truly toxic levels of vibrant diversity,…because people are too focused on the interests of their racial/ ethnic identity group to worry about ideological or class issues.