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>systematic discrimination in hiring That's a funny term for merit-based.
by monochromatic 9y ago
>systematic discrimination in hiring
That's a funny term for merit-based.
- zouhair 9y agoMerit, most of time has nothing to do with one ends up, especially in the US.
- monochromatic 9y agoAre companies more interested in messing with minorities than they are in maximizing profits? Someone should tell the shareholders.
- Kluny 9y agoI have trouble believing only white men can come up with enough merit to be hired for a normal entry level job.
- JSONwebtoken 9y agoAs a non-white man, please show me where I can find these normal entry level jobs that pay six-figures out of college. Please, I have student loans and my mother is sick.
- ewjordan 9y agoWithout digging too deep into the rest of this issue, do you consider Asian men white? Or is the situation a little more complicated than white men only choosing their own?
- ewjordan 9y agoJust to clarify, my comment is not meant to defend poor hiring practices in any way, I'm very much in favor of agressive efforts to improve diversity numbers (including heavy affirmative action). I just get bothered by the use of the term "white" to refer to groups with heavy Asian representation; these groups have vastly different experiences than whites do, and lumping them all together just because they're present in tech and tend to be financially successful is a dangerous oversimplification. The systematic problems go much deeper than people just hiring people that look like they do, if that was the whole problem we'd have achieved parity a long time ago.