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I know you know how statistics work, and you know this isn’t evidence of what you’re suggesting. I don’t know why anyone pretends that these stats suggest that

I know you know how statistics work, and you know this isn’t evidence of what you’re suggesting. I don’t know why anyone pretends that these stats suggest that companies are being racist about hiring. Having been involved with hiring for several of the major tech companies, and being aware of the DEI targets at others, I can tell you that they are fighting over non-white male and non-indian male talent. It’s simply not true. Given that you’ve seemingly been out of the workforce for some time, I don’t know why you insist on being so adamant about how hiring works. As for laws on the books, you found a historical artifact that has no legal effect, which the article you linked explains. It’s a reminder of a racist past, yes. These reminders will always exist in our society, and while it makes sense to continue to scrub them from legal documents over time, it’s not a good faith argument to cite such a thing as though it has any legal effect today. To be intellectually honest, you should also be upset that virginia makes it illegal for unwed couples to live together. It’s also illegal to kill a sasquatch in Washington. In Kansas, it’s illegal to put ice cream on cherry pie. To falsely say that blacks are hired last and fired first in America is not only preposterous, but extremely counterproductive to the outcome you’re presumably looking for. This is just inventing bogus reasons for Americans to feel hostile towards each other, and discouraging more people from even trying.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
I don’t know why anyone pretends that these stats suggest that companies are being racist about hiring. That isn't anything I said. I don’t know why you insist on being so adamant about how hiring works. That's not what I'm doing. You latched onto that as a thing to argue with me about in a way that ignores everything else I say and is a tactic that looks very bad faith. It looks like it is hand waving off known widespread racial bias in the name of "this one detail you said is inaccurate." It's like attacking someone over a misplaced comma to imply they are stupid without bothering to engage anything they have said. What I originally said is just that this is not shocking and talked about generally known statistics and you are latching onto "This woman knows nothing about hiring and I am going to dog her to the ends of the earth about that while pretending it is a good faith argument and overlook how shitty and racist it looks to deal with her in this fashion." This is a routine thing that whenever racism, sexism and similar come up, someone wants to go to town and nitpick something in a way that looks extremely dismissive of the very existence of the problem because they want to argue they aren't guilty of something. Some people have an expression for that along the lines of "moves to innocence" -- in other words, it is vastly more important to most White people to insist "I'm not a racist and I don't do that and that's not how hiring works" than to actually talk about how racism does work and how to remedy it. Defending their own claimed innocence is their highest priority rather than working on understanding how racism persists and what needs to be done to remedy it. "Last hired and first fired" was very much a known and standard thing for a lot of years and you have not provided any citations and I haven't gone looking because this style of arguing is so bad faith I don't want to engage it by agreeing that I need to "prove" that long-known practice remains true. There can be lots of ways that still happens without any hiring managers intentionally discriminating against Blacks. There are lots of ways that someone can be effectively removed from the pipeline before it gets to the point of applying for a particular job which is one of the things that contributes to people fighting over the few qualified candidates who do apply and have certain traits.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

I don’t know why anyone pretends that these stats suggest that companies are being racist about hiring. That isn't anything I said. I don’t know why you insist on being so adamant about how hiring works. That's not what I'm doing. You latched onto that as a thing to argue with me about in a way that ignores everything else I say and is a tactic that looks very bad faith. It looks like it is hand waving off known widespread racial bias in the name of "this one detail you said is inaccurate." It's like attacking someone over a misplaced comma to imply they are stupid without bothering to engage anything they have said. What I originally said is just that this is not shocking and talked about generally known statistics and you are latching onto "This woman knows nothing about hiring and I am going to dog her to the ends of the earth about that while pretending it is a good faith argument and overlook how shitty and racist it looks to deal with her in this fashion." This is a routine thing that whenever racism, sexism and similar come up, someone wants to go to town and nitpick something in a way that looks extremely dismissive of the very existence of the problem because they want to argue they aren't guilty of something. Some people have an expression for that along the lines of "moves to innocence" -- in other words, it is vastly more important to most White people to insist "I'm not a racist and I don't do that and that's not how hiring works" than to actually talk about how racism does work and how to remedy it. Defending their own claimed innocence is their highest priority rather than working on understanding how racism persists and what needs to be done to remedy it. "Last hired and first fired" was very much a known and standard thing for a lot of years and you have not provided any citations and I haven't gone looking because this style of arguing is so bad faith I don't want to engage it by agreeing that I need to "prove" that long-known practice remains true. There can be lots of ways that still happens without any hiring managers intentionally discriminating against Blacks. There are lots of ways that someone can be effectively removed from the pipeline before it gets to the point of applying for a particular job which is one of the things that contributes to people fighting over the few qualified candidates who do apply and have certain traits.