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"Now progressives are trying to reinstitute segregation and promoting the idea that people should be judged on skin color and not content of character while con
by Tronno 7y ago
"Now progressives are trying to reinstitute segregation and promoting the idea that people should be judged on skin color and not content of character while conservatives fight them on these changes."
That's quite a statement. Could you go into more detail?
- lazyasciiart 7y agoI believe they are referring to support for concepts like Black History Month or a Women In Engineering group being equivalent to "segregation".
- ixtli 7y agoIt’s amazing the lengths how reactionaries go to hide what they really mean. It’s most on display when we around and around entertaining their insane notions that acknowledging systemic racism is the actual racism. It’s shocking how often this argument is made.
- username90 7y agoProgressives used to be pro blind hiring and objective criteria like tests. But after it turned out that blind hiring and objective criteria gets even less diversity than our current methods it flipped, and now conservatives wants blind hiring and objective criteria while progressives wants to pick people by gender and race.
- goatinaboat 7y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted, this is an actual observable thing e.g. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888?pfmredir=sm https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-...