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> Progressive companies hire social justice warriors into vague ethics or policy roles... > I think this is all a good thing because it may alert some executiv
by aylmao 6y ago
> Progressive companies hire social justice warriors into vague ethics or policy roles...
> I think this is all a good thing because it may alert some executives to the price for hiring activists into research roles.
Ah, yes. They're going to do their jobs and point out poor ethics and policy in _your_ company. I mean, they were hired for that, but if they could just look down and _pretend_ to care about the space they were hired for, instead of actually caring, that'd be great.
- mellosouls 6y agoWere they hired for that? Or were they hired because - at best, management don't know what else to do to plug a hole in quotas that exists outside their ability to fix, or at worst, it looks good and - they believe - pacifies the critics?
- Veen 6y agoYou're right. If companies want guidance in ethics, they should hire ethicists and not activists. Activists have an ideological pre-commitment that, unless they sell out, will always trump allegiance to their employer.