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The "phenomenon that affects others" in my comment was that some qualified people get passed over for promotions. That's not the same as your "shouldn't face d
by notacoward 9y ago
The "phenomenon that affects others" in my comment was that some qualified people get passed over for promotions. That's not the same as your "shouldn't face discrimination" so your response is a non sequitur. It is not possible to eliminate the phenomenon of qualified people being passed over for hiring/promotions, for all groups. The decision-making processes involved are just not that precise or perfect. The only way one group can be immune to that effect is in the presence of systemic bias that outweighs the vicissitudes of that imperfect decision making ... and that is indeed privilege. You're not going to prove otherwise by twisting other people's words.
- Chris2048 9y agoIt's not a non sequitur, by "discrimination" I mean unjustified discrimination. I didn't "twist words", so stop making bad-faith accusations. You have setup a strawman of your own, deciding that by "face no discrimination" I must mean an extreme level of literally no negative bias, even at random or by error. I disagree that "Making it proportional is [a target]". Hiring should not be based on sex/race, but that doesn't mean it can't be based, justifiably, on things that correlate with sex/race. The issue is here is that there is no direct insight into the factors hiring decisions, other than broad hiring statistics than do not distinguish between e.g correlation and cause.
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