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They should have said “culture fit” instead of race and fit right in here. They are looking for people with specific backgrounds as they will represent so that

They should have said “culture fit” instead of race and fit right in here. They are looking for people with specific backgrounds as they will represent so that they'll be in those communities and see things from that perspective. That means they are selecting for factors outside of that individual’s control, which is dystopian but what has happened a different way all along.

throwaway894345 6y ago
> They are looking for people with specific backgrounds Why would anyone think that race is a good proxy for one's background? This seems pretty racist, in the most literal, original sense of the term.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  >Why would anyone think that race is a good proxy for one's background? On a long enough timeline it's unfortunately a self fulfilling prophecy. (This goes for whatever demographic groups you use to divide people into, not just race.)
- vmception 6y ago
  it is race-based discrimination is just as unproductive for society as racism and being racist.
BitwiseFool 6y ago
I really wonder just how differently people from different "communities" (race/ethnicity/etc) see things. Part of me thinks you can just boil those differences down to personality and politics rather than some shared cultural filter on reality.
- vmception 6y ago
  > Part of me thinks you can just boil those differences down to personality and politics and the politics will be with people in the same community as them, that's the point. public figures make themselves hard to contact outside of the organic backchannel of just being there when they were growing up. this has benefitted one group while the concerns of other groups are not able to be addressed in this way. we don't have a system devoid of those things and now it will happen with different people represented by their own neighbor I'm not advocating anything in this comment

throwaway894345 6y ago

> They are looking for people with specific backgrounds Why would anyone think that race is a good proxy for one's background? This seems pretty racist, in the most literal, original sense of the term.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>Why would anyone think that race is a good proxy for one's background? On a long enough timeline it's unfortunately a self fulfilling prophecy. (This goes for whatever demographic groups you use to divide people into, not just race.)
vmception 6y ago
it is race-based discrimination is just as unproductive for society as racism and being racist.

BitwiseFool 6y ago

I really wonder just how differently people from different "communities" (race/ethnicity/etc) see things. Part of me thinks you can just boil those differences down to personality and politics rather than some shared cultural filter on reality.

vmception 6y ago
> Part of me thinks you can just boil those differences down to personality and politics and the politics will be with people in the same community as them, that's the point. public figures make themselves hard to contact outside of the organic backchannel of just being there when they were growing up. this has benefitted one group while the concerns of other groups are not able to be addressed in this way. we don't have a system devoid of those things and now it will happen with different people represented by their own neighbor I'm not advocating anything in this comment