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by const_cast 410 days ago
> Being denied advancement in your career because you don’t have enough drops of black blood, or don’t have enough homosexual sex, is insanely wrong!

It's a good thing this is something that is not happening, then.

What's happening is you are assuming that black individuals or homosexuals finding success must have been handed something. Which is, obviously, prejudiced. The lede you're burying is that those people were hired because they're qualified.
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monero-xmr 410 days ago
If you live in a society that mandates DEI, it’s assumed that anyone getting a job via affirmative action is not the most qualified.

If you make affirmative action illegal, then of course you will hire a variety of races and identity groups (unless you are so racist as to believe they can’t compete on merit)

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UncleMeat 410 days ago
The way in which "society mandates DEI" in the US is via Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act, which expressly prohibits hiring decisions being made based on race or gender (or sexuality, through Bostock).

Where are these mandatory affirmative action policies anywhere?

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const_cast 410 days ago
DEI is not affirmative action.

DEI mostly revolves around programs for outreach, employee resource groups, statements of diversity considerations for research, that kind of thing. The idea that DEI means you have quotas for how many black people you have to hire is just GOP nonsense.

> If you make affirmative action illegal, then of course you will hire a variety of races and identity groups

I mean, not necessarily. Historically, and currently, you're going to end up with a disproportionate amount of white people. Because that's just how the US works - white people are incredibly advantaged so naturally they're going to get more, and better, jobs, in relation to their level of qualification.

Naturally over the past ~80 years it's gotten better. We don't explicitly say "we don't hire black engineers" anymore, so that's great. But you'd be a fool to think this systemic racism just vanishes overnight.

It will takes hundreds, yes hundreds, of years before it is completely eradicated. We live in the shadow of the systems and institutions of our grandparents. Who, might I add, are still alive and still making decisions.

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