When the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times, claiming discrimination against a worker, we were ready to cheer the action. But we quickly reversed that move when we learned it was a white worker seeking the promotion and being denied.
According to the complaint, the man, who was not named, was interviewed for the deputy real estate editor job in 2025, but was not selected for the panel interview. Four candidates — a white woman, an African American man, an Asian-American woman, and a multiracial woman — advanced to the panel review.
Those chosen matched the Times’ sex and race characteristics; the paper sought to increase its leadership. However, the white man claimed that he was more qualified than the person who got the job. He then took his complaint to the EEOC, and it claimed that the Times “had engaged in unlawful employment practices.”
If this sounds familiar and resembles the spurious claims made against the Southern Poverty Law Center, you have your head screwed on right. What is evidently at play is the reversal of everything DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies were attempting to rectify.
The same perversity obtains in the realm of education, which, under Secretary Linda McMahon, has ended all DEI protections. Such is the sad state of affairs, and the Times will find its appeal as futile as that of any other entity facing the onslaught of policy shifts under the Trump administration. Things are pretty much as Martha and the Vandellas sang: “Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide.”