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I much prefer these restrictions be made explicit, rather than the hiring committee silently discarding all the applications coming in from groups they are not

• car_analogy 4y ago
  It's a very bad move to make it explicit, if you can implicitly coordinate and hide your real intentions, by virtue of your colleagues mostly agreeing with you, while telling others a flattering tale of how principled and virtuous you're being. The latter takes much more effort to expose. For a recent example, see the pleasing fable journalists give for when they consider race "relevant" [1] or "pertinent" [2] to a story, versus the venal reality exposed by a Washington Free Beacon project [3] sampling almost a thousand stories to suss out their real behavior. [1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/When-Is-a-Suspect-s-Race-Relevant-2713919.php https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/When-Is-a-Suspect-s-Race... [2] https://www.cleveland.com/readers/2014/07/the_complex_issue_of_identifyi.html https://www.cleveland.com/readers/2014/07/the_complex_issue_... [3] https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-murderers-if-theyre-not-white/ https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-...