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>This might be difficult for you to understand but explicitly hiring someone with a particular skin colour is the fucking definition of racism. The only differ

>This might be difficult for you to understand but explicitly hiring someone with a particular skin colour is the fucking definition of racism. The only difference between what they're doing now and what they did before is the skin color requirement is explicit instead of implicit. Only hire white guys? Meritocracy! Decide you want to hire 1 black guy? Racist!

manigandham 6y ago
What is your proof of an implicit skin color requirement?
flippinburgers 6y ago
This is a bit odd to me. I have have siblings who are married to high achieving blacks and having talked to them the issue is more complex than "white people are all inherently racist and don't want to hire minorities". There are cultural problems in the black community in terms of how educating oneself is viewed. To be clear: if you strive academically you are "acting like a white man". Not only do I applaud and know individuals who are able to shut out that garbage mentality but it is awesome to see them get into high paying engineering roles. They deserve it.
nske 6y ago
You make it sound as if they were intentionally only hiring white guys before -factoring skin colour in any way in their hiring process. Are there reasons to think that was the case? Because if not, even if there was a statistical imbalance in the hires according to skin colour -or any other property that should be irrelevant, gender, sexual orientation etc-, do you think companies should go out of their way to try and compensate for that imbalance instead of only factoring in properties relevant to the job?
Veelox 6y ago
Hey, we are in agreement! It was really bad and racist when Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians people were excluded because of the color of there skin. Hopefully we agree it's really bad and racist when Whites, Hispanics, and Asians are excluded because of the color of their skin. You do agree, right?

manigandham 6y ago

What is your proof of an implicit skin color requirement?

flippinburgers 6y ago

This is a bit odd to me. I have have siblings who are married to high achieving blacks and having talked to them the issue is more complex than "white people are all inherently racist and don't want to hire minorities". There are cultural problems in the black community in terms of how educating oneself is viewed. To be clear: if you strive academically you are "acting like a white man". Not only do I applaud and know individuals who are able to shut out that garbage mentality but it is awesome to see them get into high paying engineering roles. They deserve it.

nske 6y ago

You make it sound as if they were intentionally only hiring white guys before -factoring skin colour in any way in their hiring process. Are there reasons to think that was the case? Because if not, even if there was a statistical imbalance in the hires according to skin colour -or any other property that should be irrelevant, gender, sexual orientation etc-, do you think companies should go out of their way to try and compensate for that imbalance instead of only factoring in properties relevant to the job?

Veelox 6y ago

Hey, we are in agreement! It was really bad and racist when Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians people were excluded because of the color of there skin. Hopefully we agree it's really bad and racist when Whites, Hispanics, and Asians are excluded because of the color of their skin. You do agree, right?