Federal Judge Fines FDNY $129 Million for Black and Hispanic Stupidity
Jul 26th, 2012 by Unamused
In January, I reported that the doctrine of diversity was inching ever closer to the Beyond Parody event horizon, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged Pepsi with black and Hispanic criminality. The settlement cost Pepsi a mere $3 million.
Now John Derbyshire, who has described me as “thoughtful, well-spoken, and highly intelligent” (not handsome? what the heck) and is therefore clearly a WISE MAN INDEED, has brought to my attention the serious yet hilarious story of Judge Nick Garaufis and the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
Here’s what went down:
- FDNY decides firefighters should be able to perform such cognitively demanding tasks as
- determining if 9 is a bigger or smaller number than 8,
- subtracting 18 from 22,
- finding the word “gloves” in a list of 7 articles of clothing,
- gauging which is more dangerous when one is standing on a subway track: an approaching subway train, or “rubbish burning in a small garbage can” on a platform somewhere, and
- not standing in pools of water while handling downed power lines
- FDNY administers two multiple choice tests with 4 answers per question, meaning someone who guesses answers, totally at random, will probably score at least 25% on any given test (remember that score), and has a better than 75% chance of scoring at least 25% on at least one test
- black and Hispanic applicants are unable to outwit a coin toss
- DAS RACISS!!!!!!!
- Judge Nick Garaufis rules FDNY practiced “intentional discrimination” against blacks and Hispanics when it asked them to ascertain
- whether one should count the number of apartments in one building by checking a different building,
- whether locking every exit is more dangerous during a fire than “a half-empty bucket of sand in the boiler room,”
- whether blocking the doors is more dangerous during a fire than “loud music,” and
- whether it’s okay to use an aluminum ladder more than once before you throw it away
- Judge Garaufis insists he will not implement racial quotas, despite “the city’s misleading and inflammatory statements to the contrary”
- Judge Garaufis promptly rules that two out of every five new firefighters hired must be black and one Hispanic — as opposed to the old, racist system, which required that five out of every five be minimally competent/not retarded (clearly privileging whites)
- Judge Garaufis also decrees FDNY must hire any blacks and Hispanics who scored at least 25% on at least one test, which we emphasize has a better than 75% chance of occurring if you guess randomly on every question
- Judge Garaufis further insists on approximately $129 million in “back pay” for these whiz kids, plus “retroactive seniority” and “a retroactively higher salary,” though his ruling is unclear on whether they get to literally spit in the faces of the real firefighters they now outrank, out-earn, and worst of all command
- Judge Garaufis closes by dribbling happily on the floor of the daycare center as he crams his gullet with fistfuls of delicious paste
Oh, that sweet, sweet paste.
I cannot resist…
I’m a brown beaner residing in New York City. I’ve perused these exams, and I must confess . . .
If you cannot understand something as simple as a subway map, you are dumber than roach excrement and have no business wearing clothing or eating non-human meat, much less assuming official responsibility for saving my life in a fire.
It’s not just beyond parody, it’s beyond reality.
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I guess we will see a mass exodus of white FDNY and the loss of services that will follow.
It hasn’t been beyond reality since the insanity of Griggs vs. Duke Power.
At least we’ll have the joy of watching the mega-rich in NYC have the safety of their goods and persons deteriorate abruptly as the essential service of firefighting and rescue is dumbed down to the Black norm, and minority cronyism overrules competence.
While I prefer white firefighters, I don’t think NYFD positions are achieved through merit. Firefighters are the laziest people I’ve ever met and I don’t doubt they usually hire and promote their friends. I’ve worked with them in other states, and I’ve seen the aftermath of them tearing apart an apartment in New York because they were annoyed to be called in on a false alarm.
Either way it will be entertaining to see New York liberals watch their houses burn as sub-retards attempt to put out the fire.
Welcome future firefighters of America!
http://www.examiner.com/video/shock-video-of-9-year-old-punching-choking-and-kicking-toddlers
Hopefully also the future adult-care workers for Judge Garaufis. Enjoy your sunset years lying covered with bed sores, half-paralyzed in your own shit, Judge Piece of Shit. After all, you earned it!
Another example of the tyranny of the federal judiciary. When will the states and their subdivisions oppose such evil? I reckon it won’t happen whilst they continue to whore for federal money.
States and subdivisions HAVE opposed this, but the Civil Rights Act of 1965 essentially mandated quotas (because any disparity in hiring must be justified by very narrow “business necessity”), and the EEOC’s 4/5 rule bans most meaningful pre-employment testing. So long as Federal supremacy is part of the Constitution, the problem won’t go away.
I guess the Judge couldn’t answer these either or he would have thrown it out like a bunch of other frivolous law suits should be. It’s definitely a shame that these people can cost many their jobs, and tax payers have to foot the bill.
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The actions of the left can be summed up in three words: war against competence.
It is not just the fire departments that are affected. A couple years back I did some work for a cop. I am convinced that in an earlier era, he would not have been hired (before Griggs vs. Duke Power). The city that I reside in also had to throw out its exams due to ‘despaired impact’.
He was barely literate (he by his own admission flunked out of high school and had a GED). He was unable to comprehend a scope of work written out in simple bullet points and written in very plain language.
He couldn’t comprehend basic addition and subtraction presented in an invoice. His son (about 10 years old) had to explain why the final number came out as it did.
He allowed criminal activity to take place in his home (fencing stolen merchandise). Unfortunately, I didn’t have the evidence to prove it.
I had to sue the bastard to get paid. Thankfully, his idiocy was so apparent during the interrogatories, that his own lawyer begged him to settle.
And they gave this man over $70k a year, a pension, and a gun. God have mercy on our republic… we have handed it over to the fools, who shall rule over us.
@ Mr. Rational,
I’m not referring to opposition through litigation in the federal courts. Of course the supremacy clause means the federal courts can impose their will on the states with respect to federal law. But, I’m talking about something akin to nullification. What would the federal government do if the states didn’t abide by their decisions? Send in the federal troops and engage in a siege of the NYFD? I suppose they could and, of course, have, with respect to desegregation. But the real reason is that states are crack addicts, addicted, as they are, to federal largesse. If enough said, well, enough is enough and we’ll forego your crack, it would end, simple as that. Moreover, the burden-shifting hullabaloo and disparate impact analysis are creatures of the courts, not the federal law itself. So, again, I stand by my comment that it boils down to tyranny of the federal judiciary insofar as the courts have interpreted the federal civil rights statutes.
I see you answered your own question. What you miss is that the courts are only enforcing acts of Congress, and acts of Congress can be reversed (or the funding to enforce them eliminated) if we get enough of our elected officials to act.
I don’t think you can point to disparate impact analysis within the parameters of the statutes. It’s judicial gloss, as they say. We get from a simple prohibition of discrimination in hiring (as mandated by the civil rights statutes) to the rank idiocy espoused by the judge in New York through judicial tyranny, not by virtue of the plain language of the Congressional acts. But I do agree with you that the acts must be repealed.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment except on the basis of Bona-fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ’s), and the USSC decided that IQ and diplomas, despite their value as predictors of job performance, are not BFOQs in the Griggs decision.
The problem is that Title VII requires employers to prove that their requirements are legitimate; employers are guilty until they prove themselves innocent, and the bar is very high. That’s a problem no matter how you cut it.
What about the Asians? Both in the american & british meanings?
I cannot imagine the kind of idiocy required to believe that high job performance is not a valid occupational qualification.
We must hold these judges personally liable for the death of citizens and lose of property, that these forced hires may cause. 69 West Washington St. in Chicago would be an example. Instead they bought off the victims’ relatives with millions of taxpayers dollars!
Apparently, either the predictive value was not understood at the time, or the evidence proving it was either not allowed before, or was ignored by, the court.
Judge Garaufis was appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton.
These are the kind of judges that left-wingers appoint.
This is the main reason why Obummer should not be re-elected (except maybe the fact that he is CLUELESS on how to fix the economy).
In the early 70′s, Nixon appointed the most liberal Republican judge he could find to the 7th circuit, which includes the city of Chicago. The Illinois AG filed suit against the city as it found the Chicago Fire Dept.(CFD) discriminated against minorities. The CFD was selected as its numbers showed that the job was predominately composed of white males.
Most federl funding was stooped because of this allegation. The AG’s claim was that the CFD practiced discrimination because theie entrance exam was “an IQ-type test, the type in which minorities perform worse than whites” (paraphrased).
The city acquiesced and entered into a consent decree. The test was changed to a 6th grade reading comprehension written exam, which was graded pass/fail (at 60% being considered passing) and a “physical fitness” exam. The physical entailed 5 stations where the test taker was timed performing various tasks. Over 18,000 took the exam.
Due to the consent decree, the first hirings from the list were approx. 450 blacks, 40 hispanics, and 40 white.
The results of this “colorblind” test (so called by the test designers from the Univ. of Ill. and elsewhere) showed that in the first 300 or so, there was indeed a diverse group. After that, the numbers dropped off drastically, with the majority being white males who worked-out stringently to take the exam. In the initall call thye went into the thousands to hire blacks and hispanics, I was not called. Nor was I called for the next group of approx. 300 as another federall judge threw a 60/40 quota on subsequent hiring.
I am from a broken home and at that time I supported a frail mother and younger brother. We were below the federal poverty line. I was originally around 300 on this list (with no “clout”). I was never called from that list (I finally made it on the next test, landing in the top 50 out of 20,000 test takers — AND after they “adjusted” the scores to achieve racial balance). I tried to sue, but you can imagine my success in the late 70′s against “affirmative action”.
My biggest regret is that I did not write down the excuses I was given from different social agencies and legal aid groups in turning down my suit. “You have to understand, …” said the ACLU, EEOC, and the legal-aid dept. at the Univ. of Chicago. I did NOT understand, nor do I understand today.
Many feel that this was “pay back” for Mayor Richard J Daley’s vote-rigging that ensured Kennedy’s election to the Presidency. I agree.
Now, for CFD promotions, a euphemism for quotas is used. It is called “banding”. That is where administrators review the results of the exam and decide on an arbitrary number that will ensure that a certain number of “protected classes” will be promoted with each group that is called. If the band is 8, then a “protected class” individual who scores 87 on a promotional exam has the same score as a white candidate who scores 95.
If it waddles like a duck, ….
I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mister Unamused, you never cease to amaze me.
I forget if it’s in ‘Bell Curve’ or a Tom Sowell book but
it’s written about 1940, NYC, tough tests to land a city job.
1970, a smart third grader could pass the third world type ‘test’ that was substituted.
Also, the book mentions how many DC cops are illiterate.
sad.
[...] Other governments at all levels have illogically done what Richmond, B.C. is proposing, but that shameful precedent does not excuse the immorality of their actions. The claim of “systemic discrimination”, often used to justify race-based actions, has been thoroughly discredited. [...]
I’ve been on the CFD for almost 24 years. I’ve seen the quality of our candidates decline because of politicians. All they care about is being re-elected. When the reverends show them their parishioners/voters list, they give them a copy of the test “to be sure it’s not racially biased”, and mysteriously scores for the minorities improve! Tests have been dumbed down to assure minorities scoring high enough to qualify. It’s never enough to satisfy the affirmative action quotas. It’s a shame what we have to accept in the name of political correctness! I still do my job but I’m doing it with weaker tools and idiotic leaders who have been spoon fed answers to “earn” their promotions. How many lives have to be hurt for quotas?
Again, look at the contradiction. We are told that race-is-just-a-construct. Yet race must be used to qualify people as firefighters. The assumption behind hizzoner disqualifying the tests seems to be that blacks learn in ways or have cognitive abilities which are different from those of whites. But how can this be if race-is-just-a-construct?
Can basic math skills and the ability to distinguish life threatening situations be tied in to one’s race genetically? That is what the judge is implying here.
In the bigger picture, we have to ask how much of the decline of the cities is precisely the result of hiring large numbers of unqualified persons to do critical jobs.
gauging which is more dangerous when one is standing on a subway track: an approaching subway train, or “rubbish burning in a small garbage can” on a platform somewhere, and
not standing in pools of water while handling downed power lines
To give this a grim spin, this is a self-correcting problem. One wonders what the attrition due to accidents will be among firefighters who “qualify” owing to this decision?
It’s not self-correcting. Firefighters work as teams; one incompetent member’s screwup can kill others, and is likely to if they fail or abandon their role in a crisis situation.
This info is very depressing, and its covered
[longer and better] in Bell Curve book.
Cheers.
it is funny, the race realists and the mens rights people seeing the same things and not separate issues.
Can you see that forcing women into top CEO positions with quotas in Sweden, or into government positions they don’t qualify for.
Exactly the same.
Women don’t have the same qualification for work (see Warren Farrell and EU plans tough quotas to put women in the boardroom. Are politicians too stupid to understand the wage gap lie statistics?)
It is exactly the same. Thinking that the difference in outcome MUST be discrimination. Not group differences, due to different life strategies, talents, etc ……
@Human Stupidity
A nice way to mindfuck the Liberal is ask the following: If an employer refuses a job to a Black man, he is called a racist, but when a woman refuses sexual favors to a Chinese man, she is considered making her own choices. Explain. Let’s face it. Black men pressured White women all the time with charges of racism.
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Just imagine a large fire in a black housing project in the city of Nig York. The fire trucks pull up and out come the newly employed black firemen. No whites. LOL
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