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Discrimination law doesn't protect incompetent people, Incompetence is always a reason to fire someone, and inability to do the job is always a reason to not hi

• koolba 10y ago
  > Discrimination law doesn't protect incompetent people, Incompetence is always a reason to fire someone, and inability to do the job is always a reason to not hire someone. Sure they do. The threat of a discrimination lawsuit has a non-zero price tag and documenting evidence of incompetence, to present if you do get sued, is an added cost as well. > It only protects competent people from incompetent racist, agist, sexist or other discriminatory idiots. And it increases the overall cost of everything for the vast majority of us that aren't racist, ageist, sexist or other discriminatory idiots.
  • lsiebert 10y ago
    if you believe the vast majority of people don't ever discriminate, then, setting aside the issue of systemic discrimination, by all means cite some studies to that effect. I can cite studies that show significant differences for gendered names, for african american names, and, just because this is aging we are talking about here, here's just one study on job applicants of different ages https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10724770 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10724770 That's not to mention things like implicit association tests that show evidence of unconscious bias. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/