The thing that pisses me off is that it's being spun in the news as a "fairness" issue for the companies, that it's not "right" for the current management/CEO/etc to be held liable for something their predecessors did. Which is just so much bullshit I don't even know where to start.
No, that's a lie. I'll start with environmental laws that say that if toxic waste is discovered on your property YOU are responsible for cleaning it up even if a previous owner was the dumper. That's why brown-field sites are so damn hard to sell. Then move on to the fact that no one who is currently in the workplace started their job during the era when sexism was both socially condoned and legal. Everyone, even the woman who was first discriminated nineteen years ago, started their jobs long after we bloody well made it clear that women are people too and that it is not okay to discriminate on the basis of gender. So the whole "But my predecessor didn't know any better" argument is bunk. The people who made these sorts of decisions knew good and well that what they are doing is wrong, or at least, they certainly ought to.
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Date: 2007-05-30 08:41 pm (UTC)No, that's a lie. I'll start with environmental laws that say that if toxic waste is discovered on your property YOU are responsible for cleaning it up even if a previous owner was the dumper. That's why brown-field sites are so damn hard to sell. Then move on to the fact that no one who is currently in the workplace started their job during the era when sexism was both socially condoned and legal. Everyone, even the woman who was first discriminated nineteen years ago, started their jobs long after we bloody well made it clear that women are people too and that it is not okay to discriminate on the basis of gender. So the whole "But my predecessor didn't know any better" argument is bunk. The people who made these sorts of decisions knew good and well that what they are doing is wrong, or at least, they certainly ought to.
Gah. This makes me so angry I could spit.