tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post320325838560912170..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Indianapolis Office Of Equal Opportunity Data Shows Few LGBT Rights-Related ComplaintsGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-24550734539744150062015-12-03T13:43:07.940-05:002015-12-03T13:43:07.940-05:00Presented here is the cost of 'stupidities'...Presented here is the cost of 'stupidities'. Final vote for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Senate 73-27; House of Representatives 289-126. The only thing 'narrow' about the vote were the minds of southern representatives who argued states rights. To deny the ruling on Brown v Board of Education is deny the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Those dealing with some psychological problem concerning equality often invent their own fake history. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8304649469675563222015-12-03T08:58:52.823-05:002015-12-03T08:58:52.823-05:00Thanks for the correction, Pete. Sex was inadverte...Thanks for the correction, Pete. Sex was inadvertently listed twice. I misread "111" for "117" on my first pass. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-35944133644891930702015-12-03T08:44:31.170-05:002015-12-03T08:44:31.170-05:00Well, so long as Americans have free association r...Well, so long as Americans have free association rights there will be racial discrimination and for a number of very good reasons if you think about it. The suggestion that a 1964 "law" passed, narrowly, by the way, should set policy for everything was never its intent. The unwisdom of what was done then and following should be apparent to all who have ever examined the arguments made in 1964 and prior....mostly by Democrats. Worse, from the legal perspective, is that Brown v Board of Education was not good law made in a legislature but an imposition and mis use of raw judicial over reaching....using jiggered progressive "reasoning" from social science (most of whose research like all of the soft sciences, is junk) the costs of stupidities are always high. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80936906719106273332015-12-03T08:38:17.661-05:002015-12-03T08:38:17.661-05:00Complaints #2 & #4 appear to be the same categ...Complaints #2 & #4 appear to be the same category?Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-12853152174252672542015-12-02T23:49:19.223-05:002015-12-02T23:49:19.223-05:00I think there is an "argument" to be mad...I think there is an "argument" to be made in favour of the Office of Equal Opportunity because the office mediates against cases that could easily become very costly, and it collects valuable data.<br /><br />Discrimination is a tough matter for administrators to deal with; having processes and offices like OEO helps manage and lessen the intensity of escalations and guide policy -for example escalations like what we are seeing at the U of Missouri could potentially have been dealt with had a defined escalation/grievance process existed at the ground level. <br /><br />It's important to keep an eye out on these Offices as they will most likely play a more visible and potentially powerful role in future skirmishes. (Not that I am a fan of bureaucracy)<br /><br />Discrimination is very easy to sense or suspect but hard to prove, but even so it exists and it seems like a good idea to make a good faith effort in dealing with it.<br /><br />Nice post Gary.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16680545344104550732015-12-02T19:58:29.289-05:002015-12-02T19:58:29.289-05:00Sounds like we ought to worry about reducing racia...Sounds like we ought to worry about reducing racial discrimination first. Sad that's still an issue today. But the data is what it is. Thank you for doing the real reporting Gary! Sure as heck won't find this at the Star. But you will find gleaming and shameless articles promoting newly elected politicians' local businesses, such as the recent article about CIty County Councilor elect Colleen Fanning's wine selling business. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-52594585412767568942015-12-02T17:57:28.264-05:002015-12-02T17:57:28.264-05:00A more than useless agency, in my view, and I woul...A more than useless agency, in my view, and I would hope that someone with deeper pockets than a cupcake maker would file suit and easily overturn this ordinance. However, it is a useful corrective to the lying Tiny Tim of duh Star who constantly claims that there is no evidence at all that the ordinance has caused or created any problems. Watching Ballard wallow around City Market and threaten all sorts of problems for the baker was an early indication of his unfitness for electoral office-a judgement since confirmed by many bloggers, two of the best ones read by most sentient Marion County sorts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com