With a class action suit against Wal-Mart soon reach the Supreme Court, it is important to remember why the left truly hates Wal-Mart, and to recognize to what lengths they will go to invent excuses for killing industry that simply proves too profitable and efficient — all while pretending that they are doing so as a matter of standing for the little guy.
Because the truth is, just as the diversity movement was never about diversity (and in fact has proven to be an impetus for a culture steeped in identity politics and envy), modern progressive ideas of “fairness” are that antithesis of fairness as most Americans conceive of it. In fact, progressive “fairness” actively and unabashedly seeks to replace morally-neutral mechanisms that govern competition with an idea of “fairness” defined through the prism of “social justice” and determined by an outcome reached through the careful rigging of rules.
This is not the America I knew. But to Obama and co, that’s a feature, not a bug.
(h/t TerryH)
Can you imagine what this country would be like if buyers and vendors were free to work out the terms of their own transactions, or if workers could choose to work for an employer at any old advertised rate? Just imagine somebody working for a wage that hadn’t been negotiated by a bunch of lawyers from 1,000 miles away! Madness!
Spontaneous, self-correcting order?!? The Horror!
So, if a “morally-neutral mechanism” such as (I assume) the free market decides that women doing the exact same work their male cohorts do should get lower pay and lesser treatment, we should just deal with it?
FUck off, AJB.
I take it you didn’t bother clicking the third link then?
I don’t think “exact same” means what you think it means.
If that were the way they do business, AJB, why would they ever hire a man when women would do the exact same work for less?
Jesus, you’re dense, AJB.
Women with equal experience doing equal work actually get paid MORE than the equivalent man.
The “problem” is that women tend to take off from work to do other things. Raise kids, for example. That happens often enough that it skews the aggregate numbers. Take a man and a woman of the same age, and the odds are pretty good that the man has more experience — which translates into higher pay.
He’s not dense, Crawford. He’s dishonest.
…and also dense.
For the value AJB brings with his little nuggets of conventionality, he’s severely over-paid.
Does AJB resolve to TN ?
I only ask because Willie the racist hilljack was trolling at other places under the name of lower case ajb.
Cleveland.
IANAL- but it seems like a group of people all claiming different discriminatory actions, all in different states, by different managers, should not compromise a class. Maybe a lawyer hoe could explain that to us. Tis seems like a collection of individual grievances, allowed to proceed in an attempt to punish WalMart.
That there are 2 douchebag trolls that choose the same moniker is remarkable.
So, if a “morally-neutral mechanism” such as (I assume) the free market decides that women doing the exact same work their male cohorts do should get lower pay and lesser treatment, we should just deal with it?
As a scientist, I’d be interested in studying the underlying cases to look for causes. As a scientist, I would be skeptical that the exact same work was being done, or that lesser treatment was in fact the case. I’d remain open to the idea that chauvinism was at work, but I’d want more than just AJB’s say-so before I started demanding federal intervention.
As a policy advocate, I’d look at women’s takeover of our nation’s educational system, and the subsequent poor performance shown by male students at the secondary and post-secondary levels, and the over-representation of women among university undergraduates, and the the over-representation of men among the unemployed, and the unfair treatment of males in the legal sphere generally, I might support AJB’s sex-based warfare, since he’s just putting in place the tools I’ll soon use to bring low the politically-correct establishment.
Or not.
Never to defend AJB, but which of the two links I see in the post is the third one?
I see a link to a piece about SCOTUS agreeing to consider Walmart’s challenge to a class-action “gender bias” lawsuit, and I see one to a 2004 piece about proglodytes swooping in from afar to fight a Walmart everyone in the local community wanted.
I’m surprised Willie hasn’t tried to register here yet. At least, I haven’t seen anything from him yet, as far as I know.
there’s a lot of people who work at Wal-Mart what aren’t at all interested in getting promoted – like a lot meaning thousands and thousands.
It’s not that they’re not ambitious.
You’re assuming individuality where I assume that it is the moniker of a collective of some sort.
If someone cared to carry out the surveillance, I’m sure they would find someone wrongfully parked in the handicapped spots at their local Wal-Mart from time to time. Obviously a class-action suit for ADA infringement should be brought against Wal-Mart. Divest until they unionize!
Jason Furman (Obama’s chief economist during the campaign) did an exhaustive study on Wal-Mart and arrived at the conclusion that on balance the chain is extremely beneficial to the economy and especially to the poor. It’s too bad these reality-based pussies are too wound up in their cheap emotive posturing to handle anything as complex as the truth.
“Cleveland”
Home of Dennis Kucinich and Jerry Springer. Why am I not surprised?
AJB, that tired old chestnut has been debunked enough times that I’m, well, not surprised, but resigned that you’re still beating that horse long after it became pate`.
PT Barnum school of politics. There’s a new sucker born every second.
Say what you will about AJB, he practices a most efficient kind of trollery. One shitstain of a comment and then done.
Beats the hell out of some I could name.
Not always, but 9 times out of 10.
Sorta off topic but I was in the Walmart in Lake Elsinore Sunday night and noticed a lot of empty shelf space and was out of several things I went in to buy, was in a bread store in Long Beach earlier in the day that had only 5 loaves of bread in 8 feet of shelf space. Went to a Vons last night in Temecula and noticed some rather sparcely stocked shelves. Any one else seeing this?
Spork, unless there’s snow in the forecast or it’s the day before Thanksgiving I wouldn’t ever expect to see anything like that here in west Georgia.
Been noticing a gradual decrease in the density of stuff on shelves for a couple of months then suddenly Sunday there’s these huge gaps. Couldn’t get wheat bread at the bread store as they only had five loaves all white. Walmart wasn’t as bad but still bad, couldn’t get Actifed or the Walmart substitute and there were plenty of other empty spots in the otc medicine section. Just wondering if this was a fluke or a local thing or what.