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Intel is a long term loser company, propped up by a loser president. It missed on chips and on AI.

For context, let me drop some history about the North Carolina Central University School of Law Because the history makes it easy to understand why this is happening

Going by some stories about North Carolina I've read from other people here, I think I have a general idea of where this is hdeaded.

You might recall from your history classes that "separate but equal" was the legal mantra for the apartheid system the US had throughout the Jim Crow era If a govt provided separate facilities of equal quality for whites and non-whites, no violation of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause

In practice, the facilities were never actually equal Anything the Government intended for black folk was intentionally underfunded and left to decay, so long as the courts would go along with it You could see it in the NC General Assembly, where the "colored" bathrooms are tiny af

(Those bathrooms later got repurposed into the women's bathrooms, so even after time required limiting the racism, the misogyny was still good to go)

Two sides of the same coin.

The unequal treatment should have been illegal But judges have unique talents for ignoring the obvious in the name hewing to the precedents they like 🙃 So this was nationwide practice for decades And along comes the Supreme Court case Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada

Lloyd Gaines wanted to go to law school at the University of Missouri The UM law school was whites only, so it told Gaines to politely go f*ck himself Gaines filed suit, arguing that his Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated b/c Missouri didn't have a law school for blacks

Missouri's lawyers were smart enough to know they had a big problem with that lawsuit So they offered to pay 100% of Gaines's enrollment costs at literally any other law school in any adjacent state, just not Missouri Gaines told them to get rekt

The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States Where SCOTUS ruled 6-2 that Gaines's rights had been violated, because Missouri had already set a precedent of providing separate but equal educational facilities Court opinion here: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

You'll notice that opinion was released in December 1938 Holding that if a state didn't provide a law school for blacks, it would have to admit blacks to its whites-only law schools At the time, North Carolina only had a whites-only law school, at UNC Chapel Hill So...

With a degree of alacrity usually reserved for natural disasters and other emergencies, the North Carolina General Assembly hauled ass on writing + debating + adopting a bill to create a "separate but equal" law school in 1939 It passed on March 1st, just 2.5 months post-Gaines

Aside: a bunch of the public schools here were built under separate but equal and you can definitely tell who the schools were meant for, even here in a very blue district

Wonder what Trump’s activist shareholder position means for Intel employees’ First Amendment rights

Just want to say that I have learned a lot from following you. Thanks for another important history lesson.

intel is making oregon 1846 again.

young enough to remember Term One when Trump was so happy to fund HBCU's ... the 180 turnarounds are amazing...

I was at intel for a decade before finally getting hit in the latest culling (which was…. Not well done IMO) Trump 1.0 they seemed to actually try to standup. Trump 2.0, before the new ceo, their solution was to try to fly under the radar. Not anymore, it seems.

Mafia tactics

Ugh

Excellent thread, thank you. Racism all the way down, as you say.... a fractal of racism, since it appears at all scales, from the structural to the most personal.