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more so than people who are just a different race or gender, from the same background? I doubt it. People from different backgrounds and life experiences would
by beaconstudios 8y ago
more so than people who are just a different race or gender, from the same background? I doubt it. People from different backgrounds and life experiences would obviously be more likely to have different perspectives, but that's not really what affirmative action hires for - it hires for immutable characteristics like race and gender.
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- emodendroket 8y agoMy expectation is the opposite of yours, and in point of fact people of a different race often are not from the same backgrounds since socioeconomic status is highly racialized in this country.
- beaconstudios 8y agoOf course there's going to be a large difference between people of different races' outlook and perspective, especially in the US. My point is that I think people from different political perspectives have much more fundamentally different ideas, beliefs and philosophies. For an explicit example, a progressive might spot gendered language in a UI that could be exclusionary, where a libertarian might spot a community problem that can solved by market or distributed forces/algorithms. Those are kind of on-the-nose examples but they serve to show things that people from different political lines might not even look for.
- emodendroket 8y agoYou know who else might spot gendered, exclusionary language better than colleagues? A woman.
- beaconstudios 8y agoMy point was more general around how people with different political viewpoints see the world differently but if you want to focus on that particular example then go ahead I guess.
- emodendroket 8y agoIf you don't like how easily I can shoot holes in your two examples pick better ones