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>I’m quitting >Hire a white guy to replace me If the roles were swapped, everyone would (rightfully) say he only got the job for being white. If your argument

>I’m quitting >Hire a white guy to replace me If the roles were swapped, everyone would (rightfully) say he only got the job for being white. If your argument is that blacks don’t get jobs because a strict majority of whites harbor secretly racist attitudes and don’t hire blacks for non-meritocratic reasons, I’d say there’s no evidence to support that theory. In fact, Affirmative Action has made the opposite true. Above all, blacks remain 11% of the population and even less than that in many areas. Only 1/10 workers should be black, in most (but not all) ideal scenarios.

digitaltrees 6y ago
But roles are reversed all the time which is my entire point. No one questions a white Ivy League educated board members qualifications because there is a baseline assumption that they must be qualified. Yet there is evidence that implicit bias plays a role in putting them there in the first place. There is no evidence of racial bias except a ton of psychological research showing most people having elevated stress responses around people of different races, a ton is sociological research showing the lingering effects of past policies like Jim Crow, red lining, highway placement in large cities that decimated black businesses districts... on and on and on. It’s naive to say all these clear effects exist, and there is a clear causal explanation in racial discrimination, but there is no evidence. The evidence is in the effects. Do me a favor make duplicate copies of your resume with two different names. One a typical English/Anglo name and one of any other culture. Let me know if you get equal responses. I’ll bet you $10,000 you won’t get equal responses. My dad did this in business school, and when he saw the results, he changed our family name.

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>I’m quitting >Hire a white guy to replace me If the roles were swapped, everyone would (rightfully) say he only got the job for being white. If your argument

by jimbob45 6y ago

digitaltrees 6y ago
But roles are reversed all the time which is my entire point. No one questions a white Ivy League educated board members qualifications because there is a baseline assumption that they must be qualified. Yet there is evidence that implicit bias plays a role in putting them there in the first place. There is no evidence of racial bias except a ton of psychological research showing most people having elevated stress responses around people of different races, a ton is sociological research showing the lingering effects of past policies like Jim Crow, red lining, highway placement in large cities that decimated black businesses districts... on and on and on. It’s naive to say all these clear effects exist, and there is a clear causal explanation in racial discrimination, but there is no evidence. The evidence is in the effects. Do me a favor make duplicate copies of your resume with two different names. One a typical English/Anglo name and one of any other culture. Let me know if you get equal responses. I’ll bet you $10,000 you won’t get equal responses. My dad did this in business school, and when he saw the results, he changed our family name.