re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So the big scandal with Elizabeth Warren, now that she has demonstrated that she does in fact have Native American blood in her, is that there are some inconsistencies in her account of being fired for being pregnant in the early 70’s?

Only in this sick, topsy-turvy world is a record of public service a liability whereas a total lack of any history of anything but self-service is seen as a plus.

this is going nowhere:

it’s nondisprovable
it was 1972
entirely different times
and no one kept ‘notes’ or wrote any of this down
there was a lot of ‘nuance’
a lot of it was ‘understood’ and everyone knew ‘how things worked’
way less workplace protections
and how exactly was a 22 yo pregnant woman going to fight back?

we’re looking at this with 2019 ideas of job protections and laws we mostly take for granted (except those dangerous ‘trans’ people above)

from cbsnews

“Two retired teachers who worked at Riverdale Elementary for over 30 years, including the year Warren was there, told CBS News that they don’t remember anyone being explicitly fired due to pregnancy during their time at the school. But Trudy Randall and Sharon Ercalano each said that a non-tenured, pregnant employee like Warren would have had little job security at Riverdale in 1971, seven years before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act was passed.

“The rule was at five months you had to leave when you were pregnant. Now, if you didn’t tell anybody you were pregnant, and they didn’t know, you could fudge it and try to stay on a little bit longer,” Randall said. “But they kind of wanted you out if you were pregnant.”

As the school board minutes show, no member of the Riverdale school board at the time was a woman. A full year after Warren’s dismissal, the Associated Press wrote that a recent New Jersey State Division of Civil Rights decision meant that “pregnant teachers can no longer be automatically forced out of New Jersey classrooms.”

and

WELP. This is about Warren’s school district - and it would appear that during her time there, they had a standing policy to force pregnant women out of classrooms. https://t.co/O3zrHbt1c4

— Shannon 🙅🏻‍♀️ (@TheStagmania) October 8, 2019

meanwhile, now she’s a democrat and is fighting for fairness in the workplace etc

eta: cbsnews cite