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by UnhelpfulYoda 3080 days ago
I always suspected that the Obama Administration DOJ 'discrimination' lawsuit against Palintir had ulterior motives.

A company which employees close to 40% Asians. I suspect someone's infiltration project went awry. "How could they possibly reject these candidates whose resume's we carefully tailored to be hired... Must be discrimination."

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Shadowy Data-Mining Firm Palantir Hit With Discrimination Suit Palantir is accused by the Department of Labor of discriminating against Asian job applicant

https://www.pcmag.com/news/348234/shadowy-data-mining-firm-p...

Obama Admin Sues CIA-Funded Counter-Espionaged Firm Palantir for Only Hiring 44% Asians

http://www.unz.com/isteve/obama-admin-sues-cia-funded-palant...

The whole thing sounded absurd from the beginning. Do Asians even suffer discrimination in the United States? Honestly, the only organizations I know of actively discriminating against Asians, are Ivy League Universities.

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> The whole thing sounded absurd from the beginning. Do Asians even suffer discrimination in the United States? Honestly, the only organizations I know of actively discriminating against Asians, are Ivy League Universities.

That's... sort of a huge amount of discrimination.

Well, somehow we've decided "positive discrimination" aka "affirmative action" is a "good" form of discrimination, otherwise there would be less diversity (which would be "bad")
I agree with both of you, so it's interesting Obama DOJ chose to tackle this 'discrimination' vs the kind they enable in our Universities.
if palantir needed to protect data from espionage, they should have incorporated as a defense contractor company, which can only hire citzens, etc.

its a solved problem. but as with anything goophalbet, they wanted to have and eat the cake.

lol, like Booz Allen... you're joking right?