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"The new Amazon Catalytic Capital initiative will also offer mentorship and business opportunities to startups led by Black, Latino, Indigenous, women, and LGBT

"The new Amazon Catalytic Capital initiative will also offer mentorship and business opportunities to startups led by Black, Latino, Indigenous, women, and LGBTQIA". Are founders supposed to document that they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual? What about founders who are in those categories but do not want to put that on their public profiles? A broader question is whether it is right to discriminate against straight cisgendered people, which is what this program appears to do, or against whites and Asians.

sn0w_crash 4y ago
No, you MUST advertise your race/sex/gender/ethnicity/sexual orientation They need this data. How else will you be categorized and targeted as a consumer?
CodeSgt 4y ago
They're not even discriminating again straight cisgendered people, it's more targeted than that, only straight cisgendered, white and Asain men. They make an allowance for all women. I personally don't think this form of discrimination is ethical, moreover its ripe for abuse. What prevents me (morals aside) from claiming LGBTQIA status? Aside from the T (usually), none of those are observable or provable. Can I claim to be black, or Latino as well, or will that be verified against by a 3rd party? If verified by a 3rd party, how are they doing it? What of Latinos who appear white? Will there be a subset of these minority groups that are denied participation because they look "too white"? This, along with similar programs and affirmative action measures, is just racism/sexism/bigotry/etc in another form. These sort of programs are always enacted in the name of equity, but select for only the most successful among the claimed oppressed groups. If they were to simply change the criterion to measure economic background and upbringing, the program would have so much more utility. There are a higher % of black Americans in poverty than white Americans. The solution to bring about equity isn't to specifically target the black Americans in poverty, but to target all in poverty regardless of ethnicity, race, or self-identification.

sn0w_crash 4y ago

No, you MUST advertise your race/sex/gender/ethnicity/sexual orientation They need this data. How else will you be categorized and targeted as a consumer?

CodeSgt 4y ago

They're not even discriminating again straight cisgendered people, it's more targeted than that, only straight cisgendered, white and Asain men. They make an allowance for all women. I personally don't think this form of discrimination is ethical, moreover its ripe for abuse. What prevents me (morals aside) from claiming LGBTQIA status? Aside from the T (usually), none of those are observable or provable. Can I claim to be black, or Latino as well, or will that be verified against by a 3rd party? If verified by a 3rd party, how are they doing it? What of Latinos who appear white? Will there be a subset of these minority groups that are denied participation because they look "too white"? This, along with similar programs and affirmative action measures, is just racism/sexism/bigotry/etc in another form. These sort of programs are always enacted in the name of equity, but select for only the most successful among the claimed oppressed groups. If they were to simply change the criterion to measure economic background and upbringing, the program would have so much more utility. There are a higher % of black Americans in poverty than white Americans. The solution to bring about equity isn't to specifically target the black Americans in poverty, but to target all in poverty regardless of ethnicity, race, or self-identification.