It's well established that there has long been a concerted effort by the left to narrow the definition of racism to ONLY apply when the discrimination is done against an oppressed racial minority.
I've heard it said DEI is mostly about risk mitigation. Making sure the employer can't be sued for discrimination because they Did Everything Right. If the DEI trainings (or at least a subset) themselves become a threat, a way for a company to get sued by employees, the equation could change rapidly.
This issue of anti-racist policy is the purity test for True Left academic types. It’s also probably the most salient thing for tech bros turning away from democrats.
If that's true, we'd have a paper trail of case law to demonstrate this bias. I haven't looked but I'm not aware of any law review articles or similar which establish this hypothesis.
I'm not aware of a SCOTUS directly on point for anti-white discrimination, but this white guy recently won a $10 million verdict for anti-white and anti-male discrimination:
I've heard it said DEI is mostly about risk mitigation. Making sure the employer can't be sued for discrimination because they Did Everything Right. If the DEI trainings (or at least a subset) themselves become a threat, a way for a company to get sued by employees, the equation could change rapidly.
I also am eagerly awaiting further dispatches from the Seattle lawsuit.
This issue of anti-racist policy is the purity test for True Left academic types. It’s also probably the most salient thing for tech bros turning away from democrats.
If that's true, we'd have a paper trail of case law to demonstrate this bias. I haven't looked but I'm not aware of any law review articles or similar which establish this hypothesis.
SCOTUS already explicitly prohibits discrimination against men: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1191
I'm not aware of a SCOTUS directly on point for anti-white discrimination, but this white guy recently won a $10 million verdict for anti-white and anti-male discrimination:
https://www.wistv.com/2021/10/28/male-hospital-executive-wins-10m-discrimination-lawsuit-after-being-replaced-by-women/?outputType=amp