Literally no one should be surprised that one of prominent Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel’s companies employs hiring practices that are comparable to the sexual criteria of the worst douche nozzles on gay hook-up apps. The gay tech bazillionaire who brought down Gawker this summer and is rumored to be on Trump’s shortlist of possible supreme court nominees has a history of opposing diversity in hiring. In 2013, he co-authored a screed against Affirmative Action for Stanford Magazine, as well as a 1999 book decrying multiculturalism in higher education that drew criticism from former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Stanford University’s then-provost.
Now the Department of Labor is suing Thiel’s troubled data-mining startup Palantir — which appears to be named after the evil crystal balls from The Lord of the Rings — for systematically discriminating against Asian applicants in its hiring practices.
According to the complaint, filed on Monday, Palantir hired only 11 Asian applicants compared to 14 non-Asians from a pool of 1,160 applicants, 85 percent of whom were Asian.
In a statement, the company denied the DoL’s allegations: “Despite repeated efforts to highlight the results of our hiring practices, the Department of Labor relies on a narrow and flawed statistical analysis relating to three job descriptions from 2010 to 2011.”
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H/T: Vice News
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
But of course if it had been a company excluding whites not only would that have been fine, but the people complaining about this would have cheered about it and the government would have given them grant money or tax breaks.
GC1985
One self hating bigot supporting another bigot. What a shocker. Peter Thiel is the epitome of a backstabbing lying coward who would do anything for money.
GC1985
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: Nonsensical argument.
Heywood Jablowme
Quibble: the Palantir crystal balls in “The Lord of the Rings” were not “evil” per se. The evil Sauron happened to get possession of one of them and used it in an evil way. The Palantir were originally a sort of internet system for the elves, wizards & rulers of Gondor. Which I suppose makes the analogy even more apt (Sauron = Thiel), especially if Thiel has a history of not hiring hobbits or dwarves!
Kieran
I’m sure Thiel’s endorsement of Donald Trump had NOTHING at all to do with this frivolous lawsuit.
dwes09
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: “But of course if it had been a company excluding whites…”
Do you really not understand the difference between an ACTUAL ALLEGATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BASED ON STATISTICS and something dredged out of your imagination with no reality?
This is the intellectual weakness of the regressive almost without exception; they cannot understand the difference between actuality and imagination.
dwes09
@Kieran: “I’m sure Thiel’s endorsement of Donald Trump had NOTHING at all to do with this frivolous lawsuit.”
Based on what exactly? Tarot cards? Throwing bones? The DOL has a case based on statistics and more, and you think your paranoid imagination somehow offers insight into the reality of it? Pardon me while i laugh in your face. Paranoid delusions, assumptions and made up stories cannot be used as argument against facts and statistics.
Alistair Wiseman
“According to the complaint, filed on Monday, Palantir hired only 11 applicants compared to 14 non-Asians from a pool of 1,106 applicants, 85 percent of whom were Asian.”
HILARIOUS! Palantir did exactly what what our Democratic bean counter overlords have been preaching (now suing) about. We have been endlessly told we are to hire according to the general population. In this case, Asians are over represented.
Gosh Queerty, you better hire some more Asians before the federal government comes down on you. Oh never mind, you’re not a prominent, visible Trump supporter.
Brian
Asians need to demonstrate that they are gay-friendly before they have the right to complain. Did you know that Singapore bans male homosexuality? Check it up.
Asians need to stop hiding behind claims of racism.
AlliterationAddict
@Brian: Does having sex with men demonstrate that I am adequately gay-friendly? Or must I present further proof to white people if I want to get a job?
Kangol
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: This doesn’t happen. Also, racism against Asian Americans and Asians is well documented. Peter Thiel is R @ C I S T scum, just like his sniffling narcissist business-fake psychopal Donald Trump.
Kangol
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: This rarely happens. In fact the major beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women.
R@cism against Asian Americans and Asians is well documented. Peter Thiel is R @ C I S T scum, just like his sniffling narcissist business-fake psychopal Donald Trump.
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: Glad to see you’re back to your fascist like ways defending self hating bigots. You never seem to change!
Peter Thiel is a right wing extremist ass kisser.
@Kieran: Oh look the Donald Trump drumbeater. After his debacle in the debate you should just run away and hide.
Inane ignorance runs rampant here.
caguy60
Of course the worthless gay peasants are jealous of the rich guy. Typical haha.
Rocinante
Given that they are a security firm that caters to the government, they might have had orders to eliminate certain ethnicities, backgrounds. Look deeper into the data as asian is a big class, were the ones eliminated Chinese. Maybe they were ordered to exclude obvious potential plants by unfriendly governments.
Government PCs can’t be built in China. Dell still has a factory here in the US, just for that reason. Dell’s managed network security platform requires hardware at the network edge, that hardware is not allowed in China, cause tell steal it reverse engineer it.
inbama
Maybe Thiel is a size queen.
seaguy
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: gawd could you be anymore of a drama queen? With your over inflated nonsense.
Mo Bro
Hell, it’s the American way, being ordered who to hire based solely on who’s the least Caucasian, rather than the most qualified.
Giancarlo86
TROLL >>>>>> @GC1985 <<<<<< TROLL
ChrisK
Wow. 85% of the applicants are Asian. Just shows you that they know where the $ is at. Like you’ll never catch an Asian with a liberal arts degree.
Kangol
@ChrisK: R@cist much? I mean, how inane can someone BE? Some of the major scholars in the US are Asian American humanists with liberal arts degrees. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rey Chow, Elaine Kim, Lisa Lowe, Gary Okihiro, Michael Omi, David Palumbo-Liu, Ronald Takaki, Rei Terada, etc. And these are just the famous people!
You might benefit from reading Ronald Takaki’s work in particular. It’s easy to get through, so check it out.
ChrisK
@Kangol: I’m not talking about a few specific people. Asians make up the vast majority when it comes to taking the science and tech jobs. They don’t even rate when it comes to the teaching and arts jobs.
I’d say Theil wanted some diversity in the company. Otherwise it would be mostly Asian. I guess that only counts when it’s a particular race though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/upshot/dont-blame-recruiting-pipeline-for-lack-of-diversity-in-tech.html?_r=0
ChrisK
@Kangol: Since the other races are by far the minority I think a little Affirmative action is a good thing.
jdboston617
Dear Logical, Compassionate Readers… Don’t feed the Queerty Trolls. I’ve made the error myself. It’s hard to resist, at least for me, but we need to.
Stilinski26
I am Asian and I believe people should be hired based on their merit and experience, not based on their race or Gender!I would be very humiliated If I was only hired because of my race, that implies that I was not good enough candidate in the first place and I was only hired out of pity and for the sake of tokenism.
Tobi
@GC1985: Oh, Oh, Oh, Miss Carini, you’re back, yet again, with more multiple barely-there-personalities, talking to yourself. How desperately needy is that?!!!
You’re even doing your same-old-same-old and offering up easily identifiable handles that don’t even qualify as a comment, you’re just hoping that your sad little IKEA flat-pack-bridge routine and a couple of stuffed goats won’t go noticed, huh?
It’s pathetic that you can’t even qualify as a troll. Go. Get. Help.
GC1985
@Giancarlo86: <<<< Pedophile
GC1985
@Tobi: I have one and it is this one. I don’t conttol any other handle. The other one “Giancarlo86” above is a fake controlled by a convicted felon.
So are you still arguing to remove age of consent laws? Those 14 year olds must get you going.