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Dating and hiring are worlds apart. Having a preference for your intimate partner isn't the same as hiring policies. A company that hires only men is being sexi
by vacri 11y ago
Dating and hiring are worlds apart. Having a preference for your intimate partner isn't the same as hiring policies. A company that hires only men is being sexist. A man or woman that is intimate with only men isn't being sexist; their private life doesn't hold others back from social opportunity.
- pavedwalden 11y agoI don't think that colmvp was trying to draw a moral equivalence. Just saying that "the proof is in the pudding". You can say you don't screen on criteria 'x' but that's not convincing if you happen to never select people who match criteria x.
- bordercases 11y agoA person is a relationship; people are markets. Even though the consequences are different downstream the structure is similar, in that in both cases there is market behavior, an expectation of bias, an expectation of denial of bias, and yet statistically a bias seems to exist without intervention.