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You can flip the script and ask why you should apply rules based on the aggregate despite obvious counterexamples. White boonies kid isn't happy to be excluded
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
You can flip the script and ask why you should apply rules based on the aggregate despite obvious counterexamples. White boonies kid isn't happy to be excluded over the fact they are white, either.
Point being this whole strive for 'ultimate equality' is going to create victims in its fanatical wake. No perfect method exists and no one wants to be on the losing end. But it is easier for those in a position of affluence to decide who is allowed in, as long as they won't get hurt themselves.
- peter422 4y agoSo we throw up our hands and perpetuate the obviously unjust status quo?
- notch656a 4y agoThe beauty of capitalism is the process that farms for the most net value extracted from the employees is more favored to win. I'm all for competitor companies hiring based on diversity (aka progressive-approved racism) , it creates market opportunities for the firms I work for.
- peter422 4y agoPerfect, so you have no problem with Microsoft having this policy! Problem solved.
- notch656a 4y agoI don't follow the logic that suggests that because I have no personal problem, a problem doesn't exist.
- psd1 4y agoSplendid, we agree. I'm expensively-educated but not particularly talented. Inner-city kids who are smarter than me don't have anything like my opportunities. I have no personal problem, but a problem exists.
- notch656a 4y agoHiring people based on skin color is not equality of opportunity, it is equality of outcome.
- fsniper 4y agoNo, you go and fix the social inequalities and trickle that up. You can't trickle down equality by introducing more "positive" inequality