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So when the NBA hires for job qualifications like height, skill and performance, that's OK. But for tech positions they should actively discriminate against ski

So when the NBA hires for job qualifications like height, skill and performance, that's OK. But for tech positions they should actively discriminate against skilled applicants because maybe somebody else ought to do it? The NBA is actively recruiting/training for elite talent in China: http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/news/companies/china-nba-basketball-academies-players/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/news/companies/china-nba-bas...

EGreg 9y ago
I think you TOTALLY misunderstood my point. Which was: how come drwl accepts the status quo with NBA and not with programmers? Why do they simply assume that some qualities are more prevalent with Blacks but not with males? I am not taking a position in my comment one way or the other, just pointing out a potential double standard so the reader can make their own conclusions by reconciling them :) I assume you are clearly on the side of "things are the way they are because that's how biology works". So here is another one, far more politically charged. Are you prepared to endorse this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United... "There is general agreement in the literature that blacks are more likely to commit violent crimes than are whites in the United States. Whether this is the case for less serious crimes is less clear." This statement is considered racist. However the equivalent statement for men and women is not considered sexist: men commit far more violent crime than women. Therefore, should these things be used in profiling people suspected of violent crime? You can go on and on about these things.
- drwl 9y ago
  Correct me if I'm not understanding your argument. What I'm reading is that your argument is there is a "diversity" problem in the NBA and that comes from discrimination against non-blacks. And that this is the same discrimination mentioned in the article?
  - EGreg 9y ago
    My argument is not that diversity should be increased nor the opposite. It is that there is a double standard.

EGreg 9y ago

I think you TOTALLY misunderstood my point. Which was: how come drwl accepts the status quo with NBA and not with programmers? Why do they simply assume that some qualities are more prevalent with Blacks but not with males? I am not taking a position in my comment one way or the other, just pointing out a potential double standard so the reader can make their own conclusions by reconciling them :) I assume you are clearly on the side of "things are the way they are because that's how biology works". So here is another one, far more politically charged. Are you prepared to endorse this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United... "There is general agreement in the literature that blacks are more likely to commit violent crimes than are whites in the United States. Whether this is the case for less serious crimes is less clear." This statement is considered racist. However the equivalent statement for men and women is not considered sexist: men commit far more violent crime than women. Therefore, should these things be used in profiling people suspected of violent crime? You can go on and on about these things.

drwl 9y ago
Correct me if I'm not understanding your argument. What I'm reading is that your argument is there is a "diversity" problem in the NBA and that comes from discrimination against non-blacks. And that this is the same discrimination mentioned in the article?
- EGreg 9y ago
  My argument is not that diversity should be increased nor the opposite. It is that there is a double standard.