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EEOC Sues New York Times, Claiming Anti-White Discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the New York Times on Tuesday, accusing the paper of violating federal discrimination laws for passing over a white male employee for a promotion.
The agency accused the paper of opting not to hire an unnamed man for a Deputy Real Estate Editor position and claimed that every final-round candidate was not a white man.
“No one is above the law — including ‘elite’ institutions,” EEOC chair Andrea Lucas said in a statement. “There is no such thing as ‘reverse discrimination’; all race or sex discrimination is equally unlawful, according to long-established civil rights principles.”
Times spokesperson Danielle Rhodes Ha said in a statement the paper rejected the “politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration’s EEOC.”
“Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,” she said. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”
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