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Skin color does not tell you anything about who a person is. The problem is that this is not true. If it was, it would be much simpler. Race and ethnicity hav
by lutorm 10y ago
Skin color does not tell you anything about who a person is.
The problem is that this is not true. If it was, it would be much simpler.
Race and ethnicity have a nonzero correlation with other factors like culture and socioeconomic status, which means they are, on average, likely to tell you something about the person. When applied to a given individual they're obviously very flawed predictors, but if they didn't sort of work as a proxy for other characteristics, I don't think it would be talked about as much as it is.
- generic_user 10y agoCompanies who want to succeed with new ideas need a diversity of ideas. Free thinkers with broad experience to draw from. And people who are not afraid to disrupt institutional norms. One of the criticism is that the racial diversity PC crowd really have little interest in diversity of ideas, free thinking, or disruption. And most of them come from a very narrow band of upper middle class cultural experience. Its a feeble monoculture with a strict social hierarchy. For all intent and purpose its the opposite of what a innovative diverse group is. If you goal is simply to hire a group of people who meet some subjective 'racial balance' who all think a certain way then your probably building a very weak team.