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by Daishiman 2264 days ago
No, it is absolutely the point, unless you believe that the skill for CEOs was fairly distributed in its proportion of old, white men, or if you feel that whites and Asians objectively make for better engineers, or if you think that blacks make for better jazz musicians.

Drop this ridiculous rationalization of racism and sexism.
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twomoretime 2264 days ago
>or if you think that blacks make for better jazz musicians.

But it isn't racist to suggest that they may be better sports players, right?

Look, none of what I'm saying justifies discrimination against individuals, because we are still dealing with probabilistic distributions. What it does suggest is that inequality of outcome can be explained without resorting to racism and sexism. Further it suggests that our goals of gender and racial parity in industry cannot occur without some penalty to merit, which may be worse for society.

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Daishiman 2261 days ago
> Further it suggests that our goals of gender and racial parity in industry cannot occur without some penalty to merit, which may be worse for society.

Sure, now go out and prove that that's actually what happened and that the penalty is worse than the benefit of elevating of people who used to have no status to even play the game.

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