Company pays a heavy price for wokeness firing

 Washington Examiner:

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David Duvall had been a senior vice president of marketing and communications at Novant Health for five years when the 29,000-employee healthcare provider began implementing “Goal 2 of Phase 2” of its internal Diversity and Inclusion plan. At the beginning of 2018, Duvall’s boss, Novant’s chief consumer officer, had seven direct reports. All of them, including Duvall, were white men. This did not fit with Novant’s Diversity and Inclusion plan, which required diversity at the senior level.

By the end of 2018, Duvall’s boss had just two white male reports. Today, he has none. Duvall was one of the senior white men fired. He was replaced by two women, one black and one white.

When Duvall sued Novant claiming discrimination under Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act, Novant tried to claim he was fired because of poor leadership skills. But the company could not produce any evidence that there were complaints about his performance before he was fired. “He was just fired out of the clear blue sky, and it fit hand-in-glove with the strategic plan and timeline,” Duvall’s attorney told a local television station. The jury agreed and awarded Duvall $10 million in punitive damages.

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Diversity and inclusion become code words for discrimination based on gender and ethnicity.  Merit is thrown out the window to hire people based on their race and sex.  When Americans say the country is on the wrong track, that should also mean the woke nonsense has got to go.  We should return to the merit standard.