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Why would you assume that the racial demographics of a particular corporate entity’s workforce should match the national average demographic breakdown? Can yo
by zaroth 6y ago
Why would you assume that the racial demographics of a particular corporate entity’s workforce should match the national average demographic breakdown?
Can you think of any reasons why a specific workplace’s demographics might deviate from the mean that isn’t rooted in unequal opportunity?
- whoisjuan 6y agoYes, read my comment as it seems that nobody is fully reading it. I'm saying that if the final proportion doesn't reflect the demographics proportion then there's a bottleneck somewhere down the line that produces less black professionals.
- zaroth 6y agoI think the crucial factor that will skew this is that racial demographics are strongly correlated with cultural demographics, and different cultures will place wildly varying value judgements on different lively pursuits. It seems to me that what this mathematical approach would be striving for—in trying to make workforce demographics equal population demographics—is total homogenization, which is to say, total destruction of cultural identity.
- defkev 6y agoBecause that's how quotas work. So if the country is 13% black your employees should be 13% black. Then and only then you have archived true "diversity" Alternatively you can ofcourse always drop the whole affirmative action bullshit and just hire based on qualification. But then you no longer receive good boy points for wokeness.