Subj : Diversity
To   : All
From : Richard Falken
Date : Sun Aug 18 2019 14:41:49

  Re: Diversity
  By: Lee Lofaso to Richard Falken on Sun Aug 18 2019 11:25 pm

 > There is only one race - the human race.

[...]

 > How to make it fair for races of all colors to be considered as
 > equals for employment?

Not to be very anal, but if you are trying to make a case for egalitarism 
basing it on the idea that there is only a single human race, you should not 
talk in a follow-up argument about the integration of diferent races. It sounds 
self-defeating to the cause.

To be honest, I never go near the "there is a single human race" argument 
because it usually doesn't work well. It is usually paired with the implicit 
idea that every man should have the same rights because we are of the same 
race. The problem is that the whole argument breaks when you see a picture of 
Obama next to a picture of Trump and realize that large segments of the 
population share sets of characteristics that allow to get people classified 
into races. Just like you can classify dogs and horses by breed. You then hit 
the fallacy that since we are not the same race then we don't necessarily have 
the same rights. In my opinion, it is better for everybody to avoid that can of 
worms entirely and just declare that every functional human being has the same 
set of essential basic rights and be done with that, because we are convincing 
nobody than Obama and Trump cannot be classified in different groups.

In any case, the human resources stuff I was talking about was no quota driven. 
And I mean, there was no quota mandating to have x% minorities hired. As far as 
I know it was a PR policy from the firm. There is a lot of myth that business 
do what is best for them, but I am sure everybody here has had their share of 
lame managers... firms are ran by human beings and human beings are falible. 
They make mistakes. Some even let politics ruin the firm. Last time I checked, 
some workers of this firm complaint that a lot of the new recruits were 
underperforming very badly because technical merits had turned into a secondary 
consideration for recruitment. Go figure. I think this is the sort of thing 
people gets worried about when they hear of diversity enforcement plans.

And I will say I agree with those fears.

I have actually been in the blunt end of a quota-based law that left me out of 
a job position somewhere else and it was not very fun, by the way. Just sharing 
for the sake of full disclosure :-P
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