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>return to meritocracy, colour-blind hiring Yeah, let's "return" to that. Let's "go back" to the good old pre-racism days that we all remember that totally hap
by Smeevy 1y ago
>return to meritocracy, colour-blind hiring
Yeah, let's "return" to that. Let's "go back" to the good old pre-racism days that we all remember that totally happened.
Please enlighten me as to when this period occurred in American history. Forget America, give me an example in any ethnically diverse society.
- exasperaited 1y agoThis is absolutely correct; it's as true in the UK as in the USA. Nobody can identify even the slightest window of time in which there really was a non-sexist, colour-blind, non-homophobic, chill meritocratic consensus that did not need rebalancing. People often point at the 1980s but culture was extremely aware back then of the need to re-balance, but it did so in a kind of crass way at every level of the media. Token hiring was rampant, and used as a way to wash society's hands of the problem by laundering seemingly diverse figures into the unmodified culture, as long as they didn't question it too much. I would echo your point. Anyone here: when was it better, genuinely, for everyone, than it is now? When was it less complicated?
- pixxel 1y ago[dead]