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Obama’s Weaponized Department of Labor Goes After Peter Thiel’s Palantir

I’m not a fan of Peter Thiel. I don’t like VC guys and I definitely don’t like self admitted gay vampires. That being said, even gay vampires should be afforded basic liberties of speech without a corrupt government targeting him as a form of punishment. As many of you know, Peter was at the RNC convention and is a huge Trump supporter. For Obama, this was unacceptable behavior, especially since he is a gay vampire and is supposed to want to suck his dick and not Donald’s.

The Department of Labor is suing one of Thiel’s major companies, Palantir, for not having enough Asian engineers. Yes, you heard that right.

Via Breitbart

The lawsuit, filed and announced Monday by the Department of Labor, threatens the complete cancellation of every contract Palantir has with the federal government — a penalty worth $340 million, the lawsuit claims, which would end the company.

The claims in the lawsuit are laughable. The Obama administration alleges that Palantir discriminated against Asians. But it has to admit that Palantir, in fact, hired many Asians — 11 out of 25 software engineers, for example. The government does not even bother to claim that Palantir deliberately excluded Asians. Rather, it argues that since only 44% of Palantir’s software engineers are Asian, but 85% of the applicant pool was Asian, Palantir must, statistically, have discriminated against Asians.

In other words: almost all of the software engineers at Palantir have to be Asian, or else it is guilty of “racial discrimination.” Apparently left-wing concern for “diversity” in the workplace is a flexible concept, based on political expediency.

Just to recap: because Palantir didn’t hire all Asian engineers, they’ve must’ve been racially profiling when hiring employees. The plight of the Asian Americans in this country, hamstrung with the lowest unemployment rate of any race, is evidentially a main priority for this administration — or at least in this very particular and unique case.

BLS stats, employment by race

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4 comments

  1. formergeek

    Government Gone Wild

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  2. stockslueth

    When things like this happen, such as the IRS going after Tea Party groups and now this, it’s the end of a fair minded government. Using government as a weapon to attack your political foes is a dangerous undertaking. History tells us it doesn’t end well.

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  3. the_swatter

    the Obama admin and gov in general have devolved into mob thuggery; grinding people and businesses down like 2-bit Scientologists, but the real difference is they are using taxpayer money to fabricate these vendetta lawsuits — social unrest and revolt are the only way to fix this it seems… (Trump wins and after a few months he wants or he starts subverting the constitution in order to help save it [opposite of what Obama has done].)

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