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I agree to what you said, but isn't it the problem that we consider people with political views that we _strongly_ disagree with, as less smart or smart but evi
by seven 16y ago
I agree to what you said, but isn't it the problem that we consider people with political views that we _strongly_ disagree with, as less smart or smart but evil?
To answer the question of waterside81:
Yes, I rejected somebody just because I did not want to have an 18 year old kid working with us that calls himself 'very very conservative'. I do not care much about left or right wing. I just do not want extremists. :)
And I am pretty sure I got rejected myself at least once because of my political views that collided with the business model. Which is perfectly ok and a very understandable reason.
- MichaelSalib 16y agoI'd be very wary of declaring someone an extremist just because they said they were very very conservative. Individual understanding of what terms like liberal and conservative mean often is completely turned around. My politics are fairly liberal but at times I think of myself as a fairly conservative person because I think some conservatives are radicals. There is too much uncertainty about what these terms mean to base hiring decisions on them. Plus, people with experience in other countries or cultures can have very different definitions. It seems that the spectrum of allowable political opinions in the US is much narrower than in Europe. Many American liberals would be considered quite conservative in some European countries.
- Kadrith 16y ago> I agree to what you said, but isn't it the problem that we consider people with political views that we _strongly_ disagree with, as less smart or smart but evil? I don't look at it that way. Smart people can disagree if they place a different weight on the various data points.