🚨 WSJ: 1866 law promised freed slaves the same rights as whites. Conservative legal activists say it bars many corporate diversity programs

[karim]

This will back fire, this opens the door to explain if those same rights were granted.

Not if the cases are tried by federalist society judges

 

[Wargames]

So here is a thought to ponder: why use the Civil Rights Act of 1866 instead of the Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits racial discrimination?

Probably because the CRA of 1964 is one of their ultimate targets and it would look goofy using it and then turning on it. The CRA of 1866 obviously has no teeth since it didn't prevent a damn thing once Reconstruction ended.

@BaggerofTea is right, they hate us having a damn thing.

Which to me is why this has no teeth. Title VII is the rule of the land, 1866 law was completely ignored for almost 100 years since the court refused to regulate discrimination in private businesses before the Civil Rights act of 1964. Plus businesses don’t want to challenge Title VII also because those companies would literally just turn around and say “we’re being sued for racial discrimination by black employees for there not being systems in place to guarantee diversity in the company”. These diversity programs literally exist because companies were being sued and losing cases for lack of diversity at the upper levels of their companies.

Now could they challenge Title VII…. Idk, they would basically have to have the Supreme Court agree that racial segregation is legal again because Title VII is literally one of the laws that make it illegal. Remove that and we’re back to white only water fountains within a few days.

Asians (outside of outright Asian c00ns) wont argue for them either because a lot of these programs benefit Asians just as much. I think for now this is a nothing burger, but they are testing the water to see if anything sticks while getting PR for their stupidity to fundraise.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Not if the cases are tried by federalist society judges

They don’t get it