The Truth About Gender-Based Discrimination Lawsuit – Ep 65
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
* Pao v. Kleiner Perkins: there should be no damage even if there was discrimination
* The law against discrimination is unconstitutional
* Employees are free to discriminate - they can work for whomever they want
* Why should an employer then lose that right?
* Everyone should be free to deal with the consequences of their choices
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| 0:00.0 | The Peter Schiff Show. |
| 0:08.8 | Now you may have heard about this case, right? |
| 0:11.7 | This is the case. |
| 0:13.1 | This is a woman, Ellen Powell, I guess that's how to pronounce it, P-A-O, who is suing |
| 0:22.9 | Clinder Perkins. |
| 0:24.6 | Clinder Perkins is a very old and established venture capital firm out in Silicon Valley, |
| 0:33.2 | heavy hitters, and she had a job there, which of course, I mean, it's not that easy to |
| 0:37.6 | land a job there to begin with, let alone to get promoted up to partner. |
| 0:42.3 | But she didn't make it a partner, and she's finally lawsuit. |
| 0:45.5 | Today they had the closing arguments, and so now the case is going to the jury. |
| 0:52.2 | Just likely the case is totally frivolous. |
| 0:54.6 | And even if Clinder Perkins wins, they have a lot of damages, they have to spend a lot |
| 1:00.0 | of money on lawyers, they have a reputational damage, they have to deal with a lot of dirty |
| 1:06.8 | laundry being aired in public. |
| 1:08.5 | It's not a very fun thing to go through when one of your former employees is suing you |
| 1:14.4 | and trying to dig up a bunch of dirt to try to make you look like a bad guy so they can |
| 1:18.7 | have a big payday. |
| 1:20.8 | But I want to just talk a little bit more about this whole issue, because first of all, |
| 1:26.7 | I don't even think Clinder Perkins should be held accountable even if they did discriminate. |
| 1:34.8 | Even if they did, even if the sole reason that this woman was not promoted was because |
| 1:40.6 | of her gender. |
| 1:42.0 | Even if Clinder Perkins, the manager said, you know, this Ellen Powell, she's great, |
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