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It’s not the job of private industry to fix the past and current mistakes of government, namely segregation, property-tax-linked school funding, redlining, urba
by rangestransform 2y ago
It’s not the job of private industry to fix the past and current mistakes of government, namely segregation, property-tax-linked school funding, redlining, urban highway construction, etc etc etc
- nxobject 2y agoIf only reparations had a remote chance of becoming policy in this country… not a chance.
- doctor_eval 2y agoso why are they doing it? Could it be that the biggest company in the world benefits from these policies? By acknowledging that a resume might be affected by lack of opportunity, Microsoft gets to sample from a larger pool of potential excellence. It’s pretty simple really. Isn’t the success of Microsoft proof that diversity is actually beneficial to private industry? I’ve come to the conclusion that “meritocracy” - when used in the context of diversity - is just another code word for “racist fuckhead”, and honestly I’m sick of hearing about it.