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You have some good points, but realize that actual racism when it comes to hiring, renting, business interactions and more scenarios like that is very real. You don't even have to look far, there are plenty of researches and even successful lawsuit surrounding last-name bias. If you have a last name that indicates african or latino ancestry, your resume gets tossed out the majority of the time (yes,not sometimes but most of the time). If you substitute only the last name of the resume and application and apply to the same list of companies with a european name you will get at least an invitation for a first round phone interview most of the time. I can see all the faults with diversity and inauthentic DEI efforts, but what I think well meaning people misunderstand is that that problem pales in comparison to actual racism that's going on. Like, ok, get rid of DEI but can you wait until racial profiling in hiring goes down a bit? like give it at least one more generation? a person who was 20 in 1963 facing "no blacks" signs all over America is 85 today, young enough to still be working in congress, vote and drive still and even serve as CEO or on a board. > There are too many softhearted fools who honestly believe the world owes them something for whatever happened to their ancestors generations ago, whether it was slavery, or the church, or the pilgrims/colonizers whatever. They fail to realize you don't get anything by whining. You take it, or you work/trade for it, but you will never get and keep power by crying for attention. Yeah, i don't care for what you said there but people should be treated fairly right? forget history, forget all that. but if you have skills you should have work opportunity right? People are owed a fair chance at life's opportunities. that isn't happening, diversity,dei,etc.. is a flawed approach to address all that. If people like you suggested better ways of solving the racism problem, that would be great, but your solution is to leave racism alone and pretend it isn't a thing. |
And if companies are discriminating on race then you wouldn't want to work there anyway. The solution is not to force everyone to get along, that only breeds more resentment.
Far more likely is companies are weighing their liabilities by hiring a black or Latino or gay person or whatever and then facing a lawsuit because said person underperforms and plays the race card when consequences come around. The companies are afraid of upsetting these people so they are in essence elevated above their coworkers in terms of power/protections at work.
The DEI solution is to present a threat of greater liabilities immediately to companies by not hiring these people.
If I own a business and I want a peaceful cooperative work group I should be allowed to only hire based on what I see as the best fit.
If that means all people of a certain race or group are removed from my hiring pool then that's a stupid strategy because I am leaving competitive employees on the table for other businesses, so I would t do that, unless I had very good reason to believe this particular individual will bring excess friction to the work space.
It's not the governments job to step in and regulate how companies hire their employees.
If companies refuse to hire these people en masse their strategy should be to start their own company and present a real threat of competition to the companies that spurned them.