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    ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:15am

    I’m not sure why Goldman bothers. On the one hand, there’s pretty much nothing they will ever do that will appease the left, and on the other hand they don’t even need to pay lip service to diversity to the right.

    Goldman’s politics are probably more center left than most people realize. They’ve always been that way. For them, a predictable legal & regulatory ecosystem is a compromise they will settle on in a society where a completely unfettered market isn’t a real possibility after 2008.

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      Dave ReburnsABurningReturns
      4/04/16 10:18am

      Goldman’s politics are simply “Is this good for Goldman”. It is both refreshing and contemptible at the same time.

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      benjaminalloverReburnsABurningReturns
      4/04/16 10:26am

      Goldman’s politics are probably more center left than most people realize.

      On social issues that do not affect their bottom line? Perhaps. On everything remotely related to economics? They’re closer to fascists than socialists.

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    Vitamin VHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:12am

    I read that article this morning, and even as a gay man, had a similar feeling. I don’t get it. I’m willing to bet, given his Valley “roots,” that he believes everyone can achieve what he has and anyone who hasn’t is just lazy. Same Wall St. bullshit; different sexual orientation.

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      cruise-controllerVitamin V
      4/04/16 10:14am

      I wonder what it’s like for that guy around the office. I bet people all around think that he got hired just because he’s gay. Does that kind of thing breed insecurity in a person? Also, how does the employer find out about this? Is there a sexual orientation check-box on the application?

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      Carmen PolentaVitamin V
      4/04/16 10:17am

      As a straight man, I can tell you for sure that most of the populist rhetoric used to slander Wall Street comes from a place of genuine misunderstanding.

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    Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:13am

    Wall Street is proving the important point though that greedy, callous, assholes do come from all races, genders, and sexual orientations.

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      benjaminalloverEd Spock
      4/04/16 10:22am

      False narratives of meritocracy for everyone!

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      Tidal Townbenjaminallover
      4/04/16 10:26am

      One side is all meritocracy, the other is all luck and/or privilege. Realistically, where do we actually exist in the middle ground?

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:18am

    Mr. Chavez with Lisa Opoku, his chief of staff. Mr. Chavez oversees the company’s roughly 9,000 engineers, nearly a third of the staff.

    Lucky for Goldman and its diversity policy which it wants the world to know about, that the NY Times caught an impromptu photo with an employee who happens to be black.
    I know a lot of people on Gawker don’t see race, but I do. I assure you that the person on the left is black.

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      GuestifacciSean Brody
      4/04/16 10:50am

      Yes, she is the daughter of African immigrants.

      Wall Street, the Ivies, prestigious consulting firms, the upper management at federal government agencies, etc., are all falling all over themselves to hire the children of West Indian and African immigrants. They don’t want to hire American black people - the very, very strong hiring preference in these places is for the immigrant kids.

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      mattress_rodeoGuestifacci
      4/04/16 11:18am

      THIS is so true. Plus, as I said earlier, gayness helps to make the non-white masculinity less threatening - it’s a bleaching agent, if you will. Maybe not everywhere, but certainly on Wall Street, home to many a power gay.

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    4thGenHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:32am

    Third Way politics in a nutshell: “Look, women and minorities can be part of the kleptocracy too! Why fight us when you can join us, maybe!”

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      thecontinuous4thGen
      4/04/16 11:55am

      thats all the people here are ever asking for...

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    RobertMadooHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:28am

    The problem with identity politics isn’t a problem with identity politics. It’s that it’s so easily co-opted by powerful institutions who have no allegiance to anything beyond a profit motive.

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      Hello_Madam_PresidentRobertMadoo
      4/04/16 11:12am

      Bingo.

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    Governor McCheeseHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:15am

    Can identity politics redeem Gawker Media? Or are you guys not going to even try.

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      Snake LipssynkGovernor McCheese
      4/04/16 11:24am

      In order for redemptions to proceed in an orderly manner, trying starts with the richest and works its way down to those with least amount of wealth-power.

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    norbiznessHamilton Nolan
    4/04/16 10:13am

    It’s like bemoaning the lack of diversity in the middle management of international human trafficking concerns. Although the Ukrainian Mafia did hire its first female shipping container enforcer, so good on them

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      PeabodyHereHamilton Nolan
      4/04/16 12:20pm

      “Finance products” are a burden upon the truly productive economy.

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        Sugar-->Power-->WomenPeabodyHere
        4/05/16 1:47am

        Just like “blog posts”

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        PeabodyHereSugar-->Power-->Women
        4/05/16 11:18am

        Blog posts cost pennies at best. “Financial products” drain tens of thousands of dollars.

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      carpetboxerHamilton Nolan
      4/04/16 11:59am

      Fits right into Clinton’s opportunistic neoliberalism. Blankfein endorsed Clinton in 2008, and all but endorsed her this year while calling Sanders “dangerous” in the same breath.

      Warren had Sanders’ back though.

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