[dylangs1030]

Bad example. There is nothing intrinsically different between a black QB and a white one, all other things being equal.

All other things being equal, there is a lot of difference between what an eloquent speaker can achieve and what a heavily accented speaker can achieve in the role of CEO.

This has nothing to do with preconceived bias. This has to do with Paul Graham's examination, over the course of funding over 500 different startups and his experience in that entire domain as a whole, that foreign accents are not desirable. The data is there; your bias prevents you from seeing it because you're misinterpreting it as discriminatory.

[auctiontheory]

You present "eloquent" and "heavily accented" as if they were diametrically opposite. In fact, they are on different axes.

[dylangs1030]

I suppose I could have said "coherent and articulate" instead of "heavily accented" so you're right. But I think my point stands.