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by enterabdazer 2202 days ago
Razor sharp and refreshingly honest. Touches on cultural issues that restrict supply side of a diversified candidate pool in "elite" professions, exploitation of diversity by culturally parasitic groups, and much more.

Blaming racism (an abstract bogeyman that can never be defeated) and focusing on equalizing outcomes (or meeting a diversity quota) is a problem because it sabotages the real efforts necessary to improve things that have very little to do with race: deeply dysfunctional governance, across justice, education, policing, and in policy-making.

It's easier to say "silent whites are complicit" than it is to ask how we can lift everyone up without tearing others down.

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In US, fed vs local state split -- is also making reforms more difficult, but on the other hand -- it probably prevents monopolization of political opinion + economic will. So over all the separation is good.

I would like, however, federal laws to be updated to protect people from discrimination due to criminal past.

I think a federal law that prevents employers of asking/using criminal past in hiring decisions -- would go a long way of re-integrating previous offenders back into society.

Probably there are specific federal charges that should be hidden -- but majority must not be used for employers, and must not be asked during job application.

I am a sure if such a law would be in effect, a number of people who resource to additional criminal activity, after previous conviction -- would drop at least 10 fold.

These kinds of changes is a must on a road to a more just society.