I was an employment lawyer for four decades. And yet, I never cease to be amazed at the brazen illegality—and more importantly, immorality—of what some purportedly “high-minded” institutions are willing to do in pursuit of their agenda. Go get ‘em Dr. Wright!
But isn't the high-mindedness *exactly* what makes them willing to engage in this kind of chicanery? They are Fighting the Good Fight, Opposing The Man, Bucking The System...all of those things that sound good and noble. Like religious evangelicals, they tell themselves they might be breaking the law, but they are saving souls, so it all works out in the end.
That may be correct. To my mind, it changes neither the immorality nor the illegality. A morality framework in which the end justifies the means is not a moral framework. And a society in which morality and legality become largely divorced is not long for the ages. In the case of discrimination, I think Chief Justice Roberts was correct: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race.”
Having worked for an Ivy League university for more than a decade, I *completely* believe this happened. The systems around hiring were so byzantine that staffers regularly found ways to work around them, and in this instance, I am sure staffers felt the end-runs were not only morally acceptable, but morally heroic. After all, they were protecting diversity!
As always something fascinating in this column and in this context surprisingly stupid on Cornell’s part.
I had a casual theory about email, which I used to guide my staff over the decades. If you say something stupid in an email, it will always finds its way to exactly the wrong person, and usually at a speed inversely proportional to how incendiary it is. “Emergent lethal email gravity.”
This seems open and shut. You have the right armament. I hope you get $50M, and the leadership is fired.
You also know that this is going to propagate in waves through the corporate world as people sue for hostile environments as the result of DEI training and racist hiring policy.
If you win Colin, it will be D-day for the Reich. Honestly, not to hyperbolize but to have a guy like you ensconced in one of the Ivies? The gutless might regain a bit of spine, the woke would mostly pass out from triggering trauma. There would be mass hysteria. Could it be the start of the beginning of the end of traninsanity? I believe it could be a pivot point.
I know it sounds like 'conspiracy' but notice how most of the vectors imposed on us all end up with the same outcome: white replacement. Feminism, gay centeredness, trans, open door immigration, drop in living standards for working people, denigration of both white people and white/western culture, etc. -- all have the same effect: to make it harder for whitey to reproduce and to swamp him with POC. If it isn't a conspiracy it sure looks like one.
I think it is important to note that most of the people who are pushing the woke ideology and anti-white racism are white themselves, and are from relatively affluent circumstances. I don’t believe they truly want or plan to get rid of themselves. The woke movement is still decentralized, so it probably isn’t about top down conspiracies so much as a groupthink culture dependent on social media to exist.
> are white themselves, and are from relatively affluent circumstances
Quite right. It's a form of suicide. Indeed, it's seems like woke might be explained as something intrinsic to a senile culture -- simply one of the stages in the decay of a civilization. Yet ... it is so perfectly evil that I suspect that certain malevolences are at at least aiding it. Follow the money. Where does wokeness come from? Where are it's leaders to be found? Who preaches it most ardently? The Ivies of course. And what are the Ivies but the finishing schools of the plutocracy? Ergo, the plutocrats think they have something to gain by -- in particular -- dividing the working class. Very clever! They have managed to divert the Left from concern for the workers and the poor by distracting them with race, sex and gender. And it's working of course -- the working class hasn't been this weak in a hundred years, and the plutocrats -- who are more likely to be Dems than Reps -- have never been richer. And would our enemies -- China, Russia, Iran, Islam -- not sense an advantage in this? They say the Muslim states poor money into the Ivies.
Yes, I agree it looks like civilizational suicide. Parasites, opportunistic infections and the like exploit situations in which the body is disintegrating and the immune (self-defense) system is getting weak. The rich and powerful often become more powerful at these times.
I am concerned by some of the statements in Exhibit B. It says "the application deadline was November 30th and resulted in an application pool of 74 candidates." What application process existed and how did it result in 74 applicants? Was that an open process or a closed process?
Exhibit B also mentions "formal and informant outreach." What type of outreach was there, and could you possibly have been part of that, or were Caucasian males (or straight, non-transitioned Caucasian males) systematically excluded from such outreach?
I'm not saying there wasn't something fishy going on here, as there likely was. The use of DEI statements to screen candidates is itself a bit suspect (although I would have to see the format of the statements, and consider whether they just state whether a candidate is open to diversity, equity and inclusion, or whether they candidate must him/herself be of a certain race, sex, religion, etc. to be hired). I just want you to be prepared for whatever issues may arise in the course of the lawsuit, and I am seeing Exhibit B as raising potential issues that must be addressed.
Exhibit B is a totally different hiring situation in 2022 and not directly relevant to my case, which involves a 2020 position. It is used to show that their racist policies persisted.
I wonder if Cornell was as bold as Oberlin College in publicly laying out its DEI hiring strategy. Their hiring could hardly be legal either if they followed through with their internal hiring recommendations:
Glad that DEI has been dropped…though maybe some where it’s still under the table.The whole concept of DEI was bad.. I just hope the medical profession was not polluted by lack of merit.
I was an employment lawyer for four decades. And yet, I never cease to be amazed at the brazen illegality—and more importantly, immorality—of what some purportedly “high-minded” institutions are willing to do in pursuit of their agenda. Go get ‘em Dr. Wright!
But isn't the high-mindedness *exactly* what makes them willing to engage in this kind of chicanery? They are Fighting the Good Fight, Opposing The Man, Bucking The System...all of those things that sound good and noble. Like religious evangelicals, they tell themselves they might be breaking the law, but they are saving souls, so it all works out in the end.
That may be correct. To my mind, it changes neither the immorality nor the illegality. A morality framework in which the end justifies the means is not a moral framework. And a society in which morality and legality become largely divorced is not long for the ages. In the case of discrimination, I think Chief Justice Roberts was correct: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race.”
Having worked for an Ivy League university for more than a decade, I *completely* believe this happened. The systems around hiring were so byzantine that staffers regularly found ways to work around them, and in this instance, I am sure staffers felt the end-runs were not only morally acceptable, but morally heroic. After all, they were protecting diversity!
Let 'em have it.
This reminds me of Bakke vs. The Regents of the University of California. Allan Bakke won, so hang in there.
As always something fascinating in this column and in this context surprisingly stupid on Cornell’s part.
I had a casual theory about email, which I used to guide my staff over the decades. If you say something stupid in an email, it will always finds its way to exactly the wrong person, and usually at a speed inversely proportional to how incendiary it is. “Emergent lethal email gravity.”
This seems open and shut. You have the right armament. I hope you get $50M, and the leadership is fired.
You also know that this is going to propagate in waves through the corporate world as people sue for hostile environments as the result of DEI training and racist hiring policy.
Kudos and best of luck.
Interested to know who, if anyone, was eventually hired for this position.
Good for you, Dr. Wright! The time has finally come when you have a good chance of winning.
I hope that justice is served.
Professor Wright??
If you win Colin, it will be D-day for the Reich. Honestly, not to hyperbolize but to have a guy like you ensconced in one of the Ivies? The gutless might regain a bit of spine, the woke would mostly pass out from triggering trauma. There would be mass hysteria. Could it be the start of the beginning of the end of traninsanity? I believe it could be a pivot point.
Or maybe the kids will finally learn what sex is and start Doing It.
I know it sounds like 'conspiracy' but notice how most of the vectors imposed on us all end up with the same outcome: white replacement. Feminism, gay centeredness, trans, open door immigration, drop in living standards for working people, denigration of both white people and white/western culture, etc. -- all have the same effect: to make it harder for whitey to reproduce and to swamp him with POC. If it isn't a conspiracy it sure looks like one.
I think it is important to note that most of the people who are pushing the woke ideology and anti-white racism are white themselves, and are from relatively affluent circumstances. I don’t believe they truly want or plan to get rid of themselves. The woke movement is still decentralized, so it probably isn’t about top down conspiracies so much as a groupthink culture dependent on social media to exist.
> are white themselves, and are from relatively affluent circumstances
Quite right. It's a form of suicide. Indeed, it's seems like woke might be explained as something intrinsic to a senile culture -- simply one of the stages in the decay of a civilization. Yet ... it is so perfectly evil that I suspect that certain malevolences are at at least aiding it. Follow the money. Where does wokeness come from? Where are it's leaders to be found? Who preaches it most ardently? The Ivies of course. And what are the Ivies but the finishing schools of the plutocracy? Ergo, the plutocrats think they have something to gain by -- in particular -- dividing the working class. Very clever! They have managed to divert the Left from concern for the workers and the poor by distracting them with race, sex and gender. And it's working of course -- the working class hasn't been this weak in a hundred years, and the plutocrats -- who are more likely to be Dems than Reps -- have never been richer. And would our enemies -- China, Russia, Iran, Islam -- not sense an advantage in this? They say the Muslim states poor money into the Ivies.
Yes, I agree it looks like civilizational suicide. Parasites, opportunistic infections and the like exploit situations in which the body is disintegrating and the immune (self-defense) system is getting weak. The rich and powerful often become more powerful at these times.
I am concerned by some of the statements in Exhibit B. It says "the application deadline was November 30th and resulted in an application pool of 74 candidates." What application process existed and how did it result in 74 applicants? Was that an open process or a closed process?
Exhibit B also mentions "formal and informant outreach." What type of outreach was there, and could you possibly have been part of that, or were Caucasian males (or straight, non-transitioned Caucasian males) systematically excluded from such outreach?
I'm not saying there wasn't something fishy going on here, as there likely was. The use of DEI statements to screen candidates is itself a bit suspect (although I would have to see the format of the statements, and consider whether they just state whether a candidate is open to diversity, equity and inclusion, or whether they candidate must him/herself be of a certain race, sex, religion, etc. to be hired). I just want you to be prepared for whatever issues may arise in the course of the lawsuit, and I am seeing Exhibit B as raising potential issues that must be addressed.
Exhibit B is a totally different hiring situation in 2022 and not directly relevant to my case, which involves a 2020 position. It is used to show that their racist policies persisted.
Ah. I should have realized that!
I wonder if Cornell was as bold as Oberlin College in publicly laying out its DEI hiring strategy. Their hiring could hardly be legal either if they followed through with their internal hiring recommendations:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/content/office/president/documents/commission_report_-_presidential_initiative_on_racial_equity_and_diversity.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjdh6H5_eyOAxUkmokEHVLuN9gQFnoECB8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2oJn7agYEpOICyIhT33S0u
Glad that DEI has been dropped…though maybe some where it’s still under the table.The whole concept of DEI was bad.. I just hope the medical profession was not polluted by lack of merit.