A Long Island police lieutenant has been awarded $1.35 million in his racial discrimination lawsuit against the village of Freeport.
Lt. Christopher Barrella, who is white, had accused the village of awarding the police chief’s job to a Hispanic officer with few qualifications and a lower test score.
I guess there is the proof that you can be black (the mayor against whom the suit was filed) and racist. I wonder if this case’s success will encourage others to file similar suits.
I don’t think that proves the mayor was “racist.” Maybe it supports the proposition he made a mistake, or something similar.
He lost in a racial discrimination suit. That’s about as close to proof of racism as it gets.
At long last, proof that black people are The Real Racists. Or something. It’s either that or Terr is using a single case to argue against a position very few people hold in the first place.
This sort of thing is hardly new news.
Around here there have been successful suits by police, firemen, librarians, teachers, etc. There’s usually a major one ever year.
The library one is amazing. They didn’t stop discriminating and the boss was quite overt! The taxpayers were footing the bill and the boss was an appointed position. She didn’t care as long as she saw fewer “white faces”.
Stop that. Marley23 already told you, it’s just a single case!
No, it’s totally different if there are half a dozen or a dozen, I guess. Is there no one out there who will save the white race?
Who ever believed that racism was always one-sided?
There are some people who argue that while anybody can be bigoted, racism by definition requires a power structure and a history - and prejudice directed against white people doesn’t have that. I don’t think I agree, but in any event it’s a view held by a very small number of people. Having triumphantly knocked down this man of straw with his example of a thing that happened one time, Terr is no doubt headed for even greater victories.
I’m sure now that this, the first lawsuit ever filed by a white person, has been successful, all the other victims will be more willing to come forward. I hear so little about discrimination against whites that I actually forgot white people existed.
There was a case with the New Haven fire department a few years back that might be relevant here.
I’ve encountered this argument before. Usually, the person advancing this position will be non-white, and will be trying to excuse (or at least downplay) a bigoted attitude against whites.
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Unfortunately, IME many people really believe that whites cannot be the target of racism.
There is a power structure, that of an employer practicing racial discrimination. The idea that a white person denied a job because of his race is in some position of power over a black man keeping him unemployed, or a latin taking the job in his place, is absurd.
People of any race can be victims of racism, and can suffer tortious damages as a result.
They’re not talking about an individual employer. They’re talking about the makeup of a society.
Nobody said that.
It would, but, there are so many people who consider themselves the true defenders of persecuted races that they will torment Barrella, or anybody that defends him, until the facts of the matter are entirely forgotten.
They will start to pick at the jury, judge, even the state (witness Florida) until the issue becomes anything but the issue that went to trial.
Usually? Really? That means more than 50 percent of the time. I suppose you have a cite to back up this assertion?
All employers are in a position of power in our society. Not over the idle rich, I suppose, but certainly over anyone coming to them as a supplicant looking for work, be they black or white, male or female, gay or straight.
Nobody in this thread said that, that was the position alluded to.
How does one cite a personal observance?