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Chase Bank Asks Employees: “Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Homophobe?”

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Hat Tip: Leah and Peter H.

JP Morgan Chase Bank sent around an employee survey demanding of their employees, “Are you an ally of the LGBT commnuity?”

Each year JP Morgan Chase sends its employees a survey asking questions related to management and other non-controversial issues. A longtime Chase employee told Professor Robert George of Princeton that the survey this year included the following questions for the first time:

Are you:
1) A person with disabilities;
2) A person with children with disabilities;
3) A person with a spouse/domestic partner with disabilities;
4) A member of the LGBT community.
5) An ally of the LGBT community, but not personally identifying as LGBT.

“My personal opinion on gay issues is none of my bosses business,” said none of the people who were upset about the Hobby Lobby decision.

Comments

  1. I really dislike employee surveys that ask personal questions. This one divorced woman with man issues made up one that started with every question you cant ask on a job interview and went into things her ex-husband that worked at the same hospital said he didn’t know about her for years.

  2. Terms like “GLBT fascism” and “gay intolerance” are a little clunky. We need something that is short, punchy, and bound to cause lots of knicker-twisting and pearl-clutching. How about “fascist”? It’s a clever portmanteau that takes an anti-GLBT slur and throws it in the Left’s face. Bonus points if it’s used by a conservative GLBTer, since they get “f-word” privileges.

    Sample use: “Terry and Simon have gotten offers from four bakers to bake their wedding cake, but they’re looking for a Christian baker so that they can sue him for refusing. They’re such fagscists.”

  6. The gay fascists aka homonazis are rampant in corporate America after their infusion during the 1980s. Surveys such as this are tantamount to sexual harassment to the well informed and are begging for a Title VII lawsuit.

  7. Of course, the employer will say that the survey is purely voluntary (which would negate the reliability of the results) or purely anonymous (which is a crock load). Someone is going to have to sue to get them to stop.

  9. Two anecdotes:

    1. After the test at the end of an OSHA continuing education course, the instructor left the room. I looked through the stack of papers on the desk and saw that more than half the class (including me) had left the racial/sexual identifier questions blank.

    2. Filling out an application for a city engineer job, I encountered the usual questions on education, qualifications, and experience. The last section was five questions on my stand on diversity issues.

    I dropped the application in the trash on the way out.

  10. Pelosi abortion could prevent the border children’s crusade crisis.
    “It’s a shame that all of these beautiful boys and girls couldn’t have been spared this hardship through timely abortions at reasonable prices.”
    http://scrappleface.com/2014/06/30/pelosi-abortion-could-prevent-border-refugee-crisis/

    Oddly the free abortions for illegals might be the only tax saving measure she ever came up with.
    allow undocumented pregnant immigrants, without regard to gender, to have free abortions in the U.S., and then to apply for legal status using the aborted child as a “sponsor.” The so-called “Anchor Fetus Act” already has enough votes to pass the Senate.”
    “

  11. And yet, Leftists still perpetuate the myth that people can choose to not participate in gay weddings. Sure, you may have the choice to not attend (for now…), but who’s to say that there won’t be social or economic consequences… I mean, persuasions?

    Anybody who thinks gay marriage is just about love is either an idiot or a liar. I can’t decide which is worse.

  14. @Sean L. – Bingo. Excellent comparison. The SA was known for its rampant homosexuality – which is why Hitler and Himmler had Roehm executed and the SA practically dissolved by 1940.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  15. @ Peter Hughes: Yes and no. Roehm’s homosexuality and the SA’s gay shenanigans were well-known to all in the Nazi movement. But that’s not what did them in. When other Nazi leaders complained to Hitler about the “immorality” of the SA, he responded that they were a warrior band, not a bunch of celibate monks, and dropped the issue.

    What doomed the SA was Roehm’s politics. Roehm was a full-blown socialist, even a communist, and he despised the military old guard. Hitler was put off by his Marxist tendencies, but privately agreed with him about the old guard. However, Hitler knew that he would need the support of the old guard if he was going to get the German military on his side. The old guard’s price was the removal of Roehm from party leadership and the disbanding of the SA. Hitler agreed, and launched the Knight of the Long Knives. The rampant homosexuality of the SA, once ignored, became the “official explanation” for the purge.

  16. How about “fagscist”? It’s a clever portmanteau that takes an anti-GLBT slur and throws it in the Left’s face. Bonus points if it’s used by a conservative GLBTer, since they get “f-word” privileges.

    Humpty Dumpty would approve of the portmanteau, and I might add that there’s an interesting (but accidental) etymological link between “fag”-as-in-homo and “fascist.” (It’s “accidental” because fag-as-in-homo isn’t short for faggot-as-in-homo; rather, faggot-as-in-homo is most likely “long for” fag-as-in-homo, and neither of these slurs comes directly from faggot-as-in-bundle-of-sticks — which itself, however, does indeed derive from the same root as fasces, the bundle of sticks representing Roman authority.)

    On the other hand, “fascist” is a slur so beloved by the Left (in the sense of “anyone to the right of Obama”) that “fagscist” might be misunderstood as a synynom for “House Homo” or “Auntie Tom,” etc.

  17. I have a different theory on the Chase Bank survey — by analogy with questions #2 and #3, it’s possible that they MERELY wanted to ask “do you have a loved one who is gay”? (Which is none of their business, arguably, but not necessarily any more outrageous than “do you have a loved one who observes Hannukah?” — questions like this help them tailor their marketing.)

    But then someone objected that “gay” isn’t necessarily inclusive of lesbians and transpersons, so they reworded it as “do you have a loved one who is LGBT”…

    …then someone else pointed out that “a loved one” is maybe too narrow (does it include old school friends on an employee’s FB list?), so it became “do you have a family member, close friend, or neighbor who is LGBT?”…

    …and then they noticed that “who is (singular) LGBT” sounds vaguely ungrammatical because an individual person presumably cannot be L, G, B, and T all at the same time, so they changed it to “a family member, close friend, housemate, neighbor, or business associate who is a member of the LGBT Community…

    …and so on through more iterations of clunky boilerplate being approved by committee, until the whole construction got so long that they truncated it to “are you an ally of the LGBT Community”? But to the Chase employees designing the survey, this phrase SEEMED to be synonymous to what they started with, namely “do you have a loved one who is gay?”

  18. P.S. I might suggest that they could’ve possibly avoided the negative publicity they got if they’d gotten the final version translated into Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Korean, and then given the results to DIFFERENT translators to be translated back to English. If the reverse-translations sounded radically different from what they intended to ask, that would be a red flag that the original English phrasing possibly had unintended connotations.

  19. P.P.S. Of course, maybe I’m being overgenerous and they really did mean to ask, from the very beginning, “are you Loyal to The Aims of the LGBT Revolution?” rather than “are their people on your Facebook list who might be interested in LGBT-targeted marketing from Chase?”

  20. @Peter- Actually McCarthy was not only right but he vastly underestimated the number of communists. When the USSR fell we got ahold of some of their records that showed many times the number of operatives.

  21. I had mentioned this survey not long ago and after talking with a friend who works for NASA, they too, are asked whether they are gay, straight, or ‘prefer not to answer’. How is that any of anyone’s business? But in this economic meltdown, they know they have people over a barrel.

  24. Fagscist Cut-N-Paste rusty, you’re a well-known bigot who has supported calls for conservatives to die. Therefore, no one should pay any attention to you or take your claims seriously.

    The only way brats like you will grow up, rusty, is if you’re spanked. Since you want to call Robert George a liar and demand we ignore him, we’re going to point out your history of malicious hatred and lies about conservatives and show why YOU should be ignored.

    You picked the game, brat. Now we’re going to play it and beat your worthless lavender Nazi rear at it.

  25. @ Niall: Let me rephrase that: The gay marriage “movement” is not just about love. It’s partly about getting legal standing for same-sex couples Which I have no problem with, I just have my own weird cultural/historical hang-ups about calling the union of two men a “marriage.”

    The dark side of it is the progressive activists who want to use it to silence and marginalize conservative Christians, and to destabilize the institution of marriage.

    Congratulations to you and your husband, may your relationship be long and prosperous!