[janef0421]

It's not unreasonable to think that cultural preferences might influence job roles in academia, but in a country with a strong and poorly addressed history of racism, the assumption should be that it results from discrimination. Cultural factor should only be considered if there is strong evidence for them, otherwise they would be used as a rhetorical justification for maintaining discriminatory systems.

[naasking]

Or you could just not assume any specific cause and actually study the problem, otherwise you leave such policies open to perfectly justified attacks, to say nothing of the fact that you're potentially persecuting a whole class of innocent people.

[hbrn]

> in a country with a strong and poorly addressed history of racism

Is there a diverse country that doesn't have a strong history of racism?

Is US worse than India, with it's caste system?

Is US worse than China, with it's Uyghur genocide?

Is US worse than Russia with it's Slavs-only rental ads?

Mind you, those are not the examples of past discriminations.

Is it possible that the reason you know more about discrimination in the US is not because US had more of it, but because you are better educated about US?

[janef0421]

Nothing about my comment indicated any sort of comparison to any other country.