Does Black Lives Matter Create a Hostile Work Environment?

American Thinker ^ | 10 Jul, 2020 | Civis Americanus

[MtnClimber]

Black Lives Matter has created an environment in which you can destroy just about anybody by calling him a racist, and now we need to turn this environment against BLM. Could a good employment lawyer argue that an employer's or university's support for BLM constitutes an actionable hostile work environment or hostile learning environment?

One of the qualifications for a hostile work environment (or hostile learning environment in a school or university) is simply that somebody has to feel offended, which is the "woke" Left's favorite method of attacking its enemies. The complainant must also show that it is discriminatory, pervasive, and harassing. A swastika or KKK hood would almost certainly meet all these requirements for a Jewish or black employee. A good lawyer might be able to argue that an employer's support for Black Lives Matter similarly creates a hostile work environment for Caucasians in general and Jews in particular.

Does Black Lives Matter Qualify as a Hate Movement?

The first step is to establish a prima facie case that BLM is, with the prominent and perhaps unique exception of Robert Ray Barnes' Black Lives Matter Foundation, itself a hate movement every bit as repulsive as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Here is but an overview of what has been found crawling around underneath the rock called Black Lives Matter (again with the exception of BLM Foundation, which advocates better police-community relations and is not connected with BLM Global Networks or other BLM-affiliated hate group).

[ealgeone]

yes. next question please.

[Sicon]

No, of course not. How could telling some of your employees that they are racists to the core, and making them subservient to, and/or afraid of, their black coworkers, possibly cause any problems?

[bk1000]

If you are a straight white male you can scream about a “hostile work environment” until you are blue in the face. No one cares, and they will reprimand you for mentioning it.

[glorgau]

The first people named in these lawsuits should be the various “Diversity Officers” raking in the big bucks.

[eyeamok]

There should have been Thousands of Lawsuits already filed by now over these Racist Discriminatory actions

[ConservativeInPA]

I tell you what ... BLM and Rats in general are making my work environment a conservative-only zone. That’s far from hostile. No Rats will be hired. Any Rat detected will be fired and replaced by conservative. My current startup is probably the last business I build - getting old here. I will demand and make sure my work environment is pleasant, enjoyable and highly productive. Rats need not apply.

[T.B. Yoits]

Black Lives Matter^TM also known as Bigoted Lynch Mob (BLM) is most certainly contributing to a hostile work environment.

The lawsuits aren't going to start with the targeted white males but with other "persons of color" who want to go after the deep corporate pockets of their employers who welcomed such hate. They can also sue the Black Lives Matter^TM corporation, both for the funds as well as the communications with their employer.