A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the U.S. Minority Business Development Agency, founded during the Nixon administration, must avail itself to disadvantaged entrepreneurs of all races and ethnicities, including whites.

The summary judgment rendered on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, appointed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, was the latest in a recent series of federal court decisions rolling back decades of affirmative action programs aimed at remedying racial discrimination.

Pittman, a judge in the Forth Worth branch of the Northern Texas District, sided with two white businessmen who sued the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a branch of the Commerce Department, last year after being denied benefits on the basis of race.

The plaintiffs were told they were ineligible for agency assistance because they were not members of any of the races or ethnicities included on a list of qualified minorities presumed to be disadvantaged and thus entitled to services, according to the judge’s summary of the case.

    • ZaktorEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      It’s exactly this lack of humor that’s causing the no sex issue.

        • ZaktorEnglish
          24·
          9 months ago

          People who are having sex don’t treat a stranger saying they aren’t having sex as a personal attack. Or well adjusted people who aren’t having sex and (correctly) don’t consider it a personal deficiency.

          It was a joke, but by this reaction I’m getting a waft of incel bitterness, and surprise surprise, a long thread arguing about how it’s bigotry for women to be warry around men in a post about incels. So it’s not a surprise you’re here complaining about how non-white people could get benefits unavailable to white people. These grievances tend to show up together.

          • beardown@lemm.ee
            22·
            9 months ago

            Actually I was arguing that the working class should hold power in society rather than the ownership class. And no one should treat anyone differently based on immutable traits.

            I didn’t treat it as a personal deficiency because it doesn’t apply to me. You however, attacked me and then claimed it was a joke out of cowardice. Grow up or log off