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Racially discriminating against individual people to achieve a desired racial composition of your workforce isn't "undoing discrimination", it's racism and disc
by faeriechangling 2y ago
Racially discriminating against individual people to achieve a desired racial composition of your workforce isn't "undoing discrimination", it's racism and discrimination itself. It's determining somebodies worth as an employee based on the colour of their skin. IBM is simply a racist employer.
This is also de jure racism in the United States, although not most countries, because diversity quotas are specifically banned by long standing precedent. Tell me with a straight face that tying bonuses to a specific percentage of people in your department being a certain race/gender is not a quota. HR departments generally know in order to illegally satisfy quotas you are supposed to not say you're running a quota on paper, you're supposed to obscufate what you're doing things like hiring 3rd party recruiters who will do the discrimination for you, you're supposed to recruit out of certain communities in a racially bias way, and establish plausible deniability for your racism. What they did is very clearly illegal racial discrimination, and it was even before the Trump Supreme Court, and they apparently didn't run this past legal.
Now a workplace not having an equal distribution of people of different races is a red flag for racism happening, but it isn't itself racism. There's more Asians than other students at schools. Is that racism? Nope, they just tend to get higher standardised test scores, they aren't actually being favored on the basis of race. Just because a racial composition of an institution alarms people, does not in fact justify racism, and it definitely doesn't mean that racism is anti-discriminatory.