A white male New York ‘Times’ employee has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against him by not giving him a promotion despite his superior qualifications, because he is a white male. Yesterday the EEOC filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the ‘Times’ arguing that the paper’s pledge to satisfy its DEI goals are being translated into “unlawful employment practices.”
Which, of course, they are, if the color of one’s skin and one’s pronouns are considered as crucial in determining promotions.
The Times was first to break the news of the suit but did not name the employee who made the complaint. “Reporters at the paper have been scrambling to figure out the employee’s identity, driven in part by bafflement that one of their own colleagues would sell out the paper to the administration, which has used tools of the federal government to attack the press,” says New York Magazine.
Really! So the Times feels that loyal Times workers should support “good discrimination” and allow the paper to skirt the law, even when they are the victims of illegal employment practices, because to do otherwise is to support the Evil Trump administration.
In World War Eleven such people were called “Good Germans.”
This is one sick culture at the New York Times.
Nikita Stewart — the Times’ then-real-estate editor who has since been promoted to metro editor — “deviated from normal hiring protocol” in January 2025 to hire someone without experience editing real-estate coverage to work as her deputy, the suit alleges. The white man who was bypassed had “considerable experience with real estate news,” a requirement included on the public job listing for the position.
Wow. A female editor named Nikita is at the center of his “to each according to their needs” tale! You can’t make this stuff up.
In 2021 the Times announced a “Call To Action,” which stated that “people of color—and particularly women of color—remain notably underrepresented in its leadership,” the suit claims. A company can address that perceived imbalance by recruitment efforts, but—and I speak from experience—placing a racial and gender thumbs on the metaphorical scales is virtually unavoidable.
Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha called the suit “politically motivated.” Gee, what a surprise. “Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,’’ Ha said in a statement. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”
You know…like Harvard denied that admitting black students with lower grades and test scores than Asian applicants was discriminatory.
Does anyone believe that the woke, left-biased, victim-mongering, knee-jerk Democratic New York Times, after declaring that its staff was “too white” and “too male” has not been systematically discriminating against whites and men?
Ethics Alarms 
In World War Eleven
At first, I thought this was a reference to yet another relatively obscure but important movie I am woefully unfamiliar with.
SON of a BITCH! Now I have to read posts in the order they are put up?! Sheesh. I thought it was some kind of editing program error, turning “II” into “eleven.”
So the Times feels that loyal Times workers should support “good discrimination” and allow the paper to skirt the law, even when they are the victims of illegal employment practices, because to do otherwise is to support the Evil Trump administration.
Of course! Isn’t that the dictionary definition of being an anti-racist?
And they have a spokeswoman named Ha, resulting in sentences ending in, “Ha said in a statement.” Is Hu on first? But hey, she’s Asian so, except at Harvard, she’s got that going for her.
The mainstream media have no idea how ridiculous they are. I was listening to NPR in the car on Monday report on Trump announcing the Navy would be escorting maritime traffic out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. NPR immediately went to an interview with a spokesperson for a maritime workers’ union who proceeded to rant about how rash and unacceptably unsafe this would be for members. I mean, who even thought of that? And so quickly! Truly remarkable.
It’s sad the world has come to this, but more of this probably needs to happen. Colleges are ground zero for the madness, and some brave soul needs to take a case as far as they can without settling to show how serious this is going to be.
Detransitioners are now starting to sue. Maybe a reckoning is slowly coming.
I have tried to explain why racially discriminatory programs are wrong to people at my institution, but it just doesn’t work. It is impossible to get them to understand that they can’t discriminate based on race. Most of them have grown up in a world where the courts have ruled that race-based discrimination is permissible. Explaining to them that it was illegal the whole time is just incomprehensible. I mean, it does seem implausible that every single federal and state court in the entire country ruled that the law that said you can’t discriminate based on race ruled that you could discriminate against SOME races. Explaining that they never made it legal, they just ruled it was permissible makes it worse. How can judges give people permission to violate the law for 60 years?
Remember, the Milgram experiment showed that as few as 10% of the population is capable of critical thinking. Most of those people are dismissed as troublemakers by society for their crime of critical thinking.