Thursday, January 23, 2025

PETER ST ONGE: corporate racism [DEI] wiped out Blue Collar whites

The corporate racism industrial complex is teetering, which would be excellent news for the millions of blue-collar whites who have been its main victims.  In a recent interview, newly based Marc Andreessen asserted that just about the entire Fortune 500 is in blatant violation of laws against racism because they discriminated against whites, and with Trump's win they're now facing a Department of Justice that probably will not be looking the other way.  

Now, Americans overwhelmingly reject racism in employment.  The most recent polling by Pew found that 74% of Americans say hiring should only be on qualifications even if it reduces diversity.  Interestingly, nearly 2/3 of blacks and 2/3 of Democrats also say hire on qualifications, not on race.  Nearly three-quarters of Hispanics, whites, and Asians say ignore race as well.  This is emphatically not what Corporate America is doing.  An in-depth article by Bloomberg tallied up hires in the year after the BLM riots, finding that out of hundreds of thousands of hires by big companies just 6% of the jobs went to whites.  Note, that whites make up 60% of the American population.  So at face value, roughly 9 out of 10 white candidates were discriminated against based on race.  And the victims were overwhelmingly Blue Collar whites.  So among Executives and managers, whites were hired about half their share of the population but among non-managers, they got just 4% of jobs, 1/15th their share of the population.  For Blue Collar jobs, whites actually lost jobs.  They were down 19,000 even though 176,000 jobs were created.  Interestingly, blacks and Hispanics got only their population share of top positions but they got fully 90% of blue-collar positions.  In other words, corporate racism wiped out Blue Collar whites.  The alleged sins of white privilege were paid not by the rich but by the distinctly non-privileged.  Happily, we have a government agency that investigates racial discrimination in hiring the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission it commonly uses statistics to find what's called "disparate impact," seeing if racial shares reflect the population.  In recent years, it's used to go after companies for non-white discrimination, typically settling for tens of thousands per discriminated candidate.  Applying that to potentially millions of white victims, it comes to potentially tens of billions in compensation owed for that institutional racism.  Of course, even tens of billions would not make it up to the victims whose careers were cut short or who struggled to feed their families because they were unfortunate enough to be the wrong race.  Even before Trump's win, companies were already ditching their DEI discrimination.  Right-leaning activist, Robbie Starbuck, has been great on this, exposing racist practices at companies like John Deere, Walmart, and Toyota, but with Trump's win, Corporate America is now on notice.  The EEOC itself will retain a democratic majority until 2026 when Trump gets to appoint new commissioners, but the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division can also go after companies for racist hiring practices.  And Trump has appointed firebrand Harmeet Dhillon to do just that.  Institutional racism has infected Corporate America, victimizing poor whites by the millions.  Its days are numbered. 

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