Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

[vulgar_newcomer]

The burdens on employers are so great that many jobs have been outsources or mechanized.

Nothing new here. Benvolio as usual blames the employee for the poor victimized corporate structure. As if outsourcing and technology wouldn't be used if the employer paid $2.00 a hr and the worker had no rights. They would still mechanize and ship the job to Laos for .10 a hr and treat people even shittier. Benvolio loves the race to bottom and would be a hell of a good lawyer for some fat slave driving sweat shop in Cambodia

 

[Benvolio]

Re: Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

Ben - Here's a good list of the types of questions that HR personnel can not ask during an interview: http://www.hrworld.com/features/30-interview-questions-111507/ IMO, most should never be asked since they do not have anything to do with the position offered.

"Should not be asked" is a judgment, not a legal restriction.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964, you know, that bill you keep bringing up to 'prove' that the modern GOP is the beacon of inclusion and those mean old nasty Democrats are the real racists.

Nope............

 

[opinterph]

Re: Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

"Should not be asked" is a judgment, not a legal restriction.

Every interview question is a test. Employers cannot test prospective employees on any matter not directly related to the performance of the job for which they are being considered.

 

[Benvolio]

Re: Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

Every interview question is a test. Employers cannot test prospective employees on any matter not directly related to the performance of the job for which they are being considered.

The question is whether that is a legal restriction, or something HR people have decided on their own.

 

[opinterph]

Re: Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

The question is whether that is a legal restriction, or something HR people have decided on their own.

Yes, it is a legal restriction. Many employers ignore the implications and then wonder why they get into trouble. It may be helpful if you refer to our previous discussion about validation.

 

[Benvolio]

Re: Fox & Friends promotes discrimination against atheists

Yes, it is a legal restriction. Many employers ignore the implications and then wonder why they get into trouble. It may be helpful if you refer to our previous discussion about validation.

Surely the burden of validation is upon those asserting the existence of a legal restriction, not upon the doubter.

 

[opinterph]

Is there any law now, state or Federal, which defines atheism as a religion?

US law respects atheism in much the same way it respects religion.

 

[opinterph]

Of possible interest …

Atheism Is a Religion
Or at least it requires a God for you not to believe in.

(Kennedy Nation; March 2012)

Excerpt:

I didn't know what fire and brimstone was until I made a throwaway claim recently during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. It seemed pretty unaudacious at the time, but by dropping the simple sentence "Atheism is a religion," I opened a biblical floodgate of ridicule, name-calling, and abuse.

 

[TX-Beau]

Atheism is a response to religion. There is no book, no doctrine, no church, no miracles, no faith, no clergy, no commandments. There are Atheists who are angry, Atheists who care, Atheists who are utterly uninterested in any argument.

The sole commonality is that all Atheists don't believe in the Jeebus and assorted siblings.

It is absolutely true that if there were no Religionists, there would be no Atheists.

If someone is saying that Atheism is a religion, they are pushing an agenda, or woefully ignorant.

 

[Kulindahr]

The point of outlawing bigotry in hiring is to make sure that employers do in fact hire those most qualified.

 

[Benvolio]

The point of outlawing bigotry in hiring is to make sure that employers do in fact hire those most qualified.

Alas no. The failure to hire a cross section becomes evidence of discrimination, pressuring employers to discriminate in favor of the protected minorities. Qualifications become secondary. For those in charge of public employment is tends to become "always hire minorities". Most infamous of all the the Dobbs Frank act requiring the hiring of "to the maximum extent possible." Bigotry is the law.

 

[Kulindahr]

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You really ought to reply to what I said, rather than to your own delusions.

 

[Benvolio]

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The point of outlawing bigotry in hiring is to make sure that employers do in fact hire those most qualified.

That is true delusion. In practice anti discrimination leads to affirmative action which is discrimination with little regard for qualification.