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> Making accomodations for other people to reduce that disparity is not discrimination. Giving people different accommodations based on race or sex is discrimi
by jwond 4y ago
> Making accomodations for other people to reduce that disparity is not discrimination.
Giving people different accommodations based on race or sex is discrimination no matter how many times you claim it is not.
> Hiring practices in our industry have historically, and still do, overwhelmingly benefit white men. […] You STILL have the overwhelming advantage in the hiring process and are crying discrimination. It's absurd
“Equity” as it is currently practiced is inherently unfair because it reduces everything down to race, sex, and other group identities and assumes that all white men are privileged while all women and non-white people are oppressed.
Under the current equity framework a black person who was born into a wealthy family with loving parents, attended expensive private schools, and never wanted for anything is “oppressed” and deserves to be given special accommodations, while a white person born into extreme poverty with drug-addicted, absent parents is assumed to be a privileged oppressor. That is absurd.
- sumeno 4y agoThe vast vast majority of interviewers and hiring managers in our industry are going to be white men. They will consciously or unconsciously tend to favor people like them, other white men, regardless of other factors due to human nature. Efforts to account for that are not discriminating against the white men, the discrimination is already happening to the people who aren't white men, accounting for that existing systematic discrimination is not reverse discrimination.