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The problem with your argument: you choose how hard you want to work at your job, but you can't choose your race. Racism is always irrational, and it's absolut
by maxharris 16y ago
The problem with your argument: you choose how hard you want to work at your job, but you can't choose your race.
Racism is always irrational, and it's absolutely against the employer's long-term rational self-interest to let race impact employment decisions.
Refusing to hire the unemployed no matter what the circumstance is definitely irrational, but is that really what employers are doing?
- kenjackson 16y agoTo be clear I think that being unemployed, in of itself, isn't sufficient reason to bring lawsuit. But, as stated in the video, if unemployed status is a suitable proxy for a protected group then its a problem. So it has to live in some context. People can use whatever metric they want for hiring, IMO. But when the metric is used as a means to get around other laws then its a problem (for example, a bank saying, "We won't hire people that listen to Lil Wayne"). I thought that's what the crux of the argument was about from the video.