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While I'm your everyday white guy, I've never understood why people among minority groups would accept this completely over-the-top pandering. It's a form of sh

While I'm your everyday white guy, I've never understood why people among minority groups would accept this completely over-the-top pandering. It's a form of shaming and it's dehumanizing. Who wants this?

austhrow743 6y ago
You serious? I’d take the “shame and dehumanisation” of being hired for my innate attributes rather than skill for a big tech company salary for sure. Wouldn’t even have to think about it. Hell, I’m mostly learning software dev because it seems like the most straight forward to way to turn my above average intelligence in to money. I’d love to cut out the middle man and just receive a high iq allowance.
launderthis 6y ago
im gonna be racists here but very vague for you to make sense of it and make it rational but not racists... here it goes white men in power want this to control all others below them. Its a divide and conquer strategy.
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creato 6y ago
I don't think anyone does, but companies are absolutely desperate to meet the demands of (a subset of) society regarding diversity. That desperation manifests in funny ways.
tonystubblebine 6y ago
Doesn't it have an obvious answer? The people who accept this are the ones for whom this is the best option. Upside: money. Downside: offensive pandering. That's often better than being unemployed. If that's true, then it's not just an offensive strategy, it's also ineffective for the business employing it. It's a way to select the lowest performing of a target group.
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
They're just putting up with stupid crap for pay. Plenty of people do that. After you've got a couple jobs on your resume nobody knows or cares you were the diversity hire at your first one. Yeah the mere presence of diversity hires makes your accomplishments worth slightly less but it's still better for you to take advantage of it. See also: prisoner's dilemma.
- silly-silly 6y ago
  Thanks for this comment, I was thinking along the lines of the parent to your post. You put that in perspective.
cambalache 6y ago
The common minority person hates it usually. The more vocal ones are the people who directly benefit from this system, they effectively have a rent-seeking behavior hidden behind the "diversity" umbrella.
- malandrew 6y ago
  >they effectively have a rent-seeking behavior hidden behind the "diversity" umbrella It's the Diversity & Inclusion Industrial Complex and it's related to all the other "industrial complexes" that form in that it's just a problem/industry specific manifestation of the Shirky Principle: https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/ https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

austhrow743 6y ago

You serious? I’d take the “shame and dehumanisation” of being hired for my innate attributes rather than skill for a big tech company salary for sure. Wouldn’t even have to think about it. Hell, I’m mostly learning software dev because it seems like the most straight forward to way to turn my above average intelligence in to money. I’d love to cut out the middle man and just receive a high iq allowance.

launderthis 6y ago

im gonna be racists here but very vague for you to make sense of it and make it rational but not racists... here it goes white men in power want this to control all others below them. Its a divide and conquer strategy.

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creato 6y ago

I don't think anyone does, but companies are absolutely desperate to meet the demands of (a subset of) society regarding diversity. That desperation manifests in funny ways.

tonystubblebine 6y ago

Doesn't it have an obvious answer? The people who accept this are the ones for whom this is the best option. Upside: money. Downside: offensive pandering. That's often better than being unemployed. If that's true, then it's not just an offensive strategy, it's also ineffective for the business employing it. It's a way to select the lowest performing of a target group.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

They're just putting up with stupid crap for pay. Plenty of people do that. After you've got a couple jobs on your resume nobody knows or cares you were the diversity hire at your first one. Yeah the mere presence of diversity hires makes your accomplishments worth slightly less but it's still better for you to take advantage of it. See also: prisoner's dilemma.

silly-silly 6y ago
Thanks for this comment, I was thinking along the lines of the parent to your post. You put that in perspective.

cambalache 6y ago

The common minority person hates it usually. The more vocal ones are the people who directly benefit from this system, they effectively have a rent-seeking behavior hidden behind the "diversity" umbrella.

malandrew 6y ago
>they effectively have a rent-seeking behavior hidden behind the "diversity" umbrella It's the Diversity & Inclusion Industrial Complex and it's related to all the other "industrial complexes" that form in that it's just a problem/industry specific manifestation of the Shirky Principle: https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/ https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/