Title VII lawsuit — Transcript

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1. 0:03Hey there. So, we're talking about Title
2. 0:067 and we said that the Supreme Court
3. 0:10decided that employers are responsible
4. 0:12for the actions of their
5. 0:14employees. They're responsible for
6. 0:16actions they knew about or should have
7. 0:19known
8. 0:20about, which is a really high standard,
9. 0:23right? That's a toughy, right? So we the
10. 0:26president of Bellev College got fired
11. 0:28because one of his employees while he
12. 0:30was out at a
13. 0:33conference took a some white out there
14. 0:36was a display that talked about the
15. 0:38Japanese internment on one of the
16. 0:40buildings at the school and said yes and
17. 0:42the artist decided he wanted to give a
18. 0:44little bit of background on the
19. 0:45information on the art and he added some
20. 0:49words on that a little description that
21. 0:52wasn't approved by the college but yet
22. 0:55it added to the artwork.
23. 0:59So, one of his vice presidents decided,
24. 1:02hey, this wasn't authorized by the
25. 1:04college. So, she went through
26. 1:07and basically covered up some
27. 1:10information about this uh artwork and
28. 1:15they ruled that that was considered, you
29. 1:17know, that that was a bad thing. So the
30. 1:20president of the college retired or
31. 1:23resigned or whatever, however you want
32. 1:26to to look at that. Uh and the vice
33. 1:30president also did too. So let's think
34. 1:34about that. It says employers are
35. 1:35responsible for the actions of the
36. 1:37employees. They're responsible for the
37. 1:38actions they knew about or should have
38. 1:39known about. So when
39. 1:42this vice president did it, who is
40. 1:46ultimately responsible?
41. 1:49the president, right? And even though he
42. 1:52had done a lot of good stuff in this
43. 1:54area, the board of trustees said, you
44. 1:57know what, this is it it
45. 2:00was it it took away from everything. It
46. 2:03it was bad, right? And so they said, you
47. 2:05know, so he
48. 2:07resigned. So how do you inoculate
49. 2:10yourself from this
50. 2:13uh type of lawsuit? No, we didn't have a
51. 2:15lawsuit or as far as I'm aware of,
52. 2:17there's no lawsuit. Um, but how do you
53. 2:20inoculate yourself against this? Well,
54. 2:22the trick is you stop it before it
55. 2:23happens. And that's a really good
56. 2:25defense. Is it
57. 2:27bulletproof? No. But the more you
58. 2:30do before it
59. 2:33happens, the better you're going to be,
60. 2:35you know. So, you don't if you say,
61. 2:38because he wrote that really nice email,
62. 2:40he sent it to everybody, which was
63. 2:43smart, smart, smart. I mean, he's that
64. 2:45that was really a good
65. 2:47idea, but maybe he could have done more
66. 2:51to defend himself again. See, that the
67. 2:53thing is you can't just be, oh, well,
68. 2:56who really cares? And that's what they
69. 2:58always say. They go, everybody knows
70. 3:00that we don't do this. No, everybody
71. 3:03doesn't
72. 3:04know. So, you need to be really
73. 3:07aggressive in stopping it before it
74. 3:08happens, and then you won't have any
75. 3:10problems.
76. 3:12So, I'm going to show you guys a
77. 3:15video. So, this video, I've seen this
78. 3:19video a bazillion times. So, I've been
79. 3:23here for over 20 years. Every business
80. 3:25101 class that I teach sees this video.
81. 3:29And I normally teach three business 101
82. 3:32classes per quarter. Multiply that
83. 3:36times per year. multiply that
84. 3:40times for over 20
85. 3:42years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And normally
86. 3:45when I teach this class, I teach in
87. 3:47person instead of online like we're
88. 3:48doing right now. So I get to watch it
89. 3:51again and again and again. I've seen
90. 3:52this thing hundreds and hundreds of
91. 3:54times. It's an amazing video. It it will
92. 3:58help you. If you're saying, "Well, how
93. 4:00do I evolve avoid these lawsuits before
94. 4:03you get them?" This video shows it.
95. 4:06Shows you. Now, this video does contain
96. 4:09some offensive language. I need to give
97. 4:12you that a heads up right
98. 4:15away. These are third graders,
99. 4:19okay? If a third grader says a bad
100. 4:23word, it's it's not good, right? We
101. 4:25don't say, "Wow, good. Way to go, third
102. 4:28grader." But at the same
103. 4:30time, is it different when a third
104. 4:32grader says a bad word than when an
105. 4:34adult says a bad
106. 4:37word? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, third
107. 4:40graders are You got to kind of forgive.
108. 4:42So, there's some third graders in here
109. 4:45and it's in the 60s. It's the original
110. 4:47part of the video was made in the 60s.
111. 4:49There's a second part that's modern, but
112. 4:51you need to watch the first part first
113. 4:53because it it it's it's good.
114. 4:55So, these are little kids in Iowa,
115. 4:59right? Iowa. I was born in Iowa.
116. 5:02Everybody in Iowa looks like this. Well,
117. 5:04not everybody, but most people are. To
118. 5:07give you an idea
119. 5:10how white it is. I I I'm from Kansas
120. 5:15City, a little farm town outside of
121. 5:17Kansas City. I never talked to a person
122. 5:20of color before I went to college. I
123. 5:23did. I'd see on television and maybe
124. 5:26when I would go into Kansas City itself,
125. 5:28I would see people of color, but besides
126. 5:30that, I had never touched a person of
127. 5:33color at all. I never met a Jewish
128. 5:35person. I never talked talked to a
129. 5:37Jewish person there. Basically, there
130. 5:39were there were a few Catholics and
131. 5:40everybody else was Baptist or Methodist.
132. 5:42I mean, it was really really white. So,
133. 5:45these kids, they're in Riceville, Iowa.
134. 5:48I can almost guarantee you they have
135. 5:50never seen a person of color. So these
136. 5:53little kids use the n-word, right? So
137. 5:58it's unfortunate they use that word, but
138. 6:02I think we should forgive third graders
139. 6:05for using the nword. What I really care
140. 6:07about
141. 6:08is when they become
142. 6:12adults, would they use the n-word?
143. 6:17That's a much more important question
144. 6:21because third graders say things. I got
145. 6:23a first grader right now. She says some
146. 6:25things that are just kind of like woo,
147. 6:28where did you hear that word? Didn't
148. 6:30come from me. Or sometimes shoot, she's
149. 6:34knows that word and came from me.
150. 6:37Yeah, but these are little kids, right?
151. 6:40I don't care if little kids say bad
152. 6:42stuff, right? They're going to do that.
153. 6:44They don't even know what it means. So
154. 6:47my little son says truck all the time,
155. 6:49but he has a speech problem where his th
156. 6:52sounds like an f. So I take him all over
157. 6:56the place and he
158. 6:58says truck because he loves trucks but
159. 7:02it doesn't sound like trucks. And
160. 7:05everybody looks at the little nugget.
161. 7:06They go, he's trying to say truck,
162. 7:09right? I'm trying to right. So we we for
163. 7:12we should forgive the little kids. I
164. 7:13care if they're going to do it as an
165. 7:15adult.
166. 7:16Okay. So, when you watch this video, I
167. 7:19want to you to to to just think to
168. 7:21yourself, would they do this as an
169. 7:24adult? So, there's two things I want you
170. 7:26to do when you're watching this video. I
171. 7:28want you to be thinking about this first
172. 7:31off. So, she does this is about a
173. 7:33teacher. I'm not ruining it for you. She
174. 7:35pulls a little trick on these
175. 7:37kids. They know it's a game. They know
176. 7:42it's a trick. They know it's
177. 7:47artificial, but they
178. 7:49forget. Now, when you're watching this
179. 7:52video, try to find out, try to think
180. 7:54about how long it takes for them to
181. 7:58forget that it's a game, that it's
182. 8:01artificial. Tell me how long before they
183. 8:04get sucked right on into it and don't
184. 8:06even know that they forgot that it was a
185. 8:08game and they just like live it. These
186. 8:10are third graders, right? Yeah. Yeah.
187. 8:12So, that's question number one. Question
188. 8:15number two
189. 8:17is tell me when you're watching this
190. 8:20video, do all the
191. 8:22kids understand the content? What is the
192. 8:25possibility one of these kids is going
193. 8:27to violate Title 7 when they become
194. 8:29adults? Right? Those are they're two
195. 8:31real easy things to do. Okay, that's the
196. 8:34per first part of the video.
197. 8:36The second part of the
198. 8:38video, this teacher does the exact same
199. 8:42thing with
200. 8:46adults. Yeah. So, you say, "Well, you
201. 8:48know what? I'm smarter than a third
202. 8:52grader." Really? I found out that every
203. 8:56time I think I'm smarter than somebody
204. 8:57else, I'm wrong. Right. Some people will
205. 9:00say, "Are you sure you're spelling your
206. 9:02name right?" That's the thing. But no,
207. 9:05maybe not. I don't know. Now I don't
208. 9:07know, right? I because I every time I'm
209. 9:10sure of something, I just know it and
210. 9:12this is the way it's got to be and it's
211. 9:14I'm right and they're wrong. I find out
212. 9:17that I'm wrong and they were right. It
213. 9:19just happens to me every single time. So
214. 9:23you think you're smarter than a third
215. 9:24grader. Let's look at let's watch the
216. 9:26adults. Now when you watch the adults, I
217. 9:29want you to think about the same two
218. 9:31things. Okay? First off, the adults know
219. 9:35it's artificial. There's no way you
220. 9:38could be a thinking
221. 9:42person of any intellect below. You have
222. 9:46to have an IQ of at least 80 to be in
223. 9:49this class, which 80 is pretty low,
224. 9:52right? And I mean, and there's no way
225. 9:54you could have an IQ of 80 and not know
226. 9:56that this is artificial. It's a game,
227. 10:00right? It doesn't. It's not true. But
228. 10:03when you watch it, tell me how long it
229. 10:06takes the adults to forget. It's a
230. 10:09game. You're going to watch the kids
231. 10:11forget. You're going to watch the adults
232. 10:14forget. Question number
233. 10:19two, is she as as successful with all
234. 10:23the
235. 10:23adults? Are there some adults that miss
236. 10:27the point?
237. 10:30I'll give you a hint. The answer is yes.
238. 10:33Right? She is less successful with the
239. 10:35adults. But I don't care about that. I
240. 10:39care about why she's less successful
241. 10:42with the adults. You like to say, well,
242. 10:45adults were smarter.
243. 10:47Like, yeah. No, no, no. Well, so you're
244. 10:50going to see a video. You're going to
245. 10:52watch the video and there's going to be
246. 10:53one person in there that sticks out. I
247. 10:56mean, you can't miss her.
248. 10:59and
249. 11:02she misses the point. She totally misses
250. 11:05the point. Okay, I don't care that she
251. 11:07misses the point. I care why she missed
252. 11:10the point. Now, when you watch this
253. 11:12video, you're going to say, "Well, she's
254. 11:16close-minded. She's stupid. She's Okay,
255. 11:20now you think you're smarter than the
256. 11:21other person." Once again, you just
257. 11:23messed that up again, didn't we? She's
258. 11:25not close-minded. She's not stupid. She
259. 11:28missed the point. Why do smart people do
260. 11:32stupid
261. 11:33things? Yeah. Okay. So, do large
262. 11:38companies do stupid
263. 11:40things? Yeah. Why? That's what we're
264. 11:44going to start to learn about. Why large
265. 11:46companies do some things that to anybody
266. 11:49with common sense? If common sense was
267. 11:51common, I everybody would have it. It's
268. 11:54the common sense why she missed it. It's
269. 11:57not common sense. There's some really
270. 11:59good stuff in here why she missed that.
271. 12:02So anyway, I'd like you to watch that
272. 12:04video and it takes about an hour to
273. 12:06watch the video.
274. 12:08Um, it's it's kind of fun. I think
275. 12:11you'll enjoy the video, but remember
276. 12:13these are when you hear the nword, these
277. 12:16are third graders. And I think we should
278. 12:18forgive a third grader when they say a
279. 12:21bad word. I think I don't care about a
280. 12:24third grader saying it. I care when they
281. 12:25get to be adults. So anyway, watch the
282. 12:29Please.