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Definitely a misleading headline. I don't doubt she was discriminated against but it is pretty clear she was discriminated against because of her name, not her
by ritchiea 14y ago
Definitely a misleading headline. I don't doubt she was discriminated against but it is pretty clear she was discriminated against because of her name, not her race because she was applying for jobs online. That could be discrimination based on assumed ethnicity but it could also be classism. Which is no better but worth clarifying.
Related story, in the early 2000's my grandparents lived in a not so nice part of the south side of Chicago, while I lived with my mother in the suburb Evanston. My grandparents bought their house before the neighborhood changed during white flight in the suburb boom and had no interest in moving as they aged. Eventually my mother moved back to the south side part time to help take care of them and while searching for a new job she found she got much better responses when she listed her Evanston address than when she listed my grandparents's address on the south side.