New York Times Made A Bunch Of Affirmative Action Hires, Then Rated Them Lower Than Their White Colleagues

The labor union at the New York Times published an “analysis” this week aiming to prove that ethnic minorities at the paper are getting the shaft, even as their share of staff positions has increased by close to 10 percent in the past six years.

In other words, top editors at the Times have made a concerted effort to pass over white job candidates for “people of color,” and there has nonetheless been resentment among staff. Who could have seen that coming?

“The New York Times’s performance review system has for years given significantly lower ratings to employees of color,” the union said in its report published Tuesday. It determined that “being Hispanic reduced the odds of receiving a high score by about 60 percent, and being Black cut the chances of high scores by nearly 50 percent. Asians were also less likely than white employees to get high scores.”