Friday, February 20, 2009

Ah, That's Why They're Cowards — They Don't Want to Be Sued   [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

Jonah,

 
Mr. Holder’s statement is shockingly ignorant of the legal (read “liability”) landscape in which race relations exist.  As an attorney who represents employers facing workplace discrimination charges, I can tell you that wisdom dictates that the workplace be as free of race-related discussions as possible if an employer is to avoid administratively and/or judicially imposed liability or, more importantly, the potentially enormous cost of defending against a charge of race discrimination.  Believe me, whenever an employer terminates an employee in a protected class, there is a better than even chance that that employee will at least file a discrimination charge with the EEOC or a similar state agency.  The employer must then choose between “mediation” (read – paying off the charging employee to avoid the greater expense of a trial) and opposing and defending against the charge.  Of course, not all such charges are hogwash.  However, given the fact that the EEOC and its state-run subsidiaries typically help disgruntled employees comb some basis for a Title VII (or ADA, or ADEA, of FMLA) claim from their particular facts, many, many of them are frivolous.

Mr. Holder’s apparent ignorance of this government supported racial grievance generating machinery is appalling for any attorney.  It is unthinkable in the U.S. Attorney General.


It may be that he exists on a higher plain and sees a world of open and grudgeless dialogue on issues that the law has deemed subject to litigation.  If so, I’ll say with some awe that his conception of the current status of race relations in our nation is far beyond my ken.

 
Thanks for Liberal Fascism – my kids are now fervent libertarians and we argue about foreign policy.


Pat (without a last name)

02/20 09:33 AMShare