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Isn't it racist when lower cast employee hires another lower cast employee. Arent we trying to stop that very same thing with AA?
by gandutraveler 6y ago
Isn't it racist when lower cast employee hires another lower cast employee. Arent we trying to stop that very same thing with AA?
- MisterBastahrd 6y agoNot remotely, no. The entire purpose of AA is to try to bring normalization to a system that is heavily and unfairly biased. AA has an understanding of the network effect and peoples' bias built in. Lower caste people favoring lower caste associates is a feature, not a bug. You want them to hire more people like them to help bring the group up. This doesn't always work, of course, but that's not the point. You want to increase the probability that it will happen No high achievers are truly worried about being in a system with AA with regards to their personal employment and advancement. They're going to succeed regardless. The high caste people who are waiting for their (or are waiting for their kids') handout simply because they had good grades as a child are the ones who are the complainers. It's not perfect, but it's not resource intensive and it's vastly better than the alternative.