Subj : Re: Diversity
To   : All
From : Richard Falken
Date : Sun Aug 18 2019 06:53:17

  Re: Re: Diversity
  By: Dale Shipp to Tim Richardson on Sun Aug 18 2019 01:37 am

I think that, in practice, the difference between selecting somebody because he 
is the right race and not selecting somebody because he belongs to the wrong 
race is semantics only. Let me explain:

Three candidates apply for a job position. Two are white and one is black. 
Hiring one of the whites because he is white is, in practice, the same as not 
hiring the black guy because he is black.

I have been to human resources processes and seen this happen the other way 
around too. Having 10 candidates, 3 belonging to minorities, and having 1 from 
the minorities selected specifically because he belonged to a minority. This 
mandate of enforcing a race based selection automatically discarded a lot of 
candidates because of no sensible reason other than PR.
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