In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies posted a job advertisement looking for ‘US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]’

In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies posted a job advertisement looking for ‘US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]’

A tech company in Virginia has been fined thousands of dollars by the Justice Department over a job advert seeking “whites only” candidates.

In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies, an information technology services firm based in Ashburn, posted a job advertisement on the recruitment website Indeed for a business analyst for the company’s sales and insurance claims team.

The job posting said that the company was looking for “US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]”, according to the DOJ.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      3411·
      7 months ago

      When you want whites only, it is racist and you get sued, but when you want non-whites only, it is not racist and no one gets sued? This is a double standard.

      When you get “whites only” for over 200 years and then get upset partially not-whites for maybe 20 years. Then throw a tantrum.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      82·
      7 months ago

      but when you want non-whites only, it is not racist and no one gets sued?

      That is also illegal. You’re only allowed to do it for actors and things like scholarships for disadvantaged groups iirc

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        84·
        7 months ago

        It’s not pervasive like that white dude (yes, we know he’s a white guy) suggests, but you can find companies with a hiring preference because they need to balance out their workforce. If you only hire people who look like you because they’re “the only talented people” or “they fit the culture”, you should balance it out with different people.

        Basically to have a diverse workforce you can’t leave it up to chance or it won’t happen.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          7 months ago

          (yes, we know he’s a white guy)

          To be fair, he might be Clarence Thomas.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          7 months ago

          The entire country could be white male straight Christians rolling coal on the weekends and they’d still complain because their neighbors don’t match.

          Irish/Italians/Catholics would lose their white privilege again.

        • capital@lemmy.world
          21·
          7 months ago

          No, no, no. Don’t lump the want for ACTUAL equal treatment regardless of the color of your skin in with anti choice, Christian right-wing.

          It’s entirely possible to want one and none of the other things you listed.

          If those reading this need to hear it from some who’s not white (because you care about the color of peoples skin more than anyone I knew growing up in west Texas in the 90’s) check out Coleman Hughes.

          https://youtu.be/QxB3b7fxMEA?si=zZLfcXnKL8zAJd7E