Me being me, I wouldn't very polite (but I would definitely recommend that others be).
So some guy once said that "we want diversity because we want people with different life experiences".
I thought later on that I should have burst in with a question of: how do you know this 'diversity' automatically means different life experiences? Or: so... how many redheads are there, because they have had different life experiences like being bullied in school. Or: would that include people with bad body odor? They sure have different experiences?
If they ever bring up transgenderism, I'd point to my beard and ask if they would consider me female.
I've honest had it up to here with this nonsense, but the good thing is that we don't have that 'internalized racism' crap here (yet).
That hasn’t appears at my job as of yet. Hopefully it doesn’t but I have asked people to really consider the absurdity of assuming something is good simply because it is diverse
I've found that people who waver realize the issue when it's their hide on the line. So they don't care about 'university admissions' in the abstract, but hiring pilots for reasons of diversity, or surgeons.
No, no, it's supposed to hurt other people. Not me! DO IT TO JULIA!
And the crazy thing is that I have relatives who support affirmative action but get mad that there is a perception that a black person didn’t earn their promotion or is only a diversity hire. Or lowering standards on tests. I try to point out this is precisely why the perception exists. They don’t see the connection.
I think Sowell pushed back once on lefties who wanted to do away with background checks because they said it was racist. It actually made things worse.
And the crazy thing is that I have relatives who support affirmative action but get mad that there is a perception that a black person didn’t earn their promotion or is only a diversity hire. Or lowering standards on tests. I try to point out this is precisely why the perception exists. They don’t see the connection.
They don't want to see it, I think. They're possessed by the idea that the only way some people can get ahead is by undue favoritism. And they think in terms of solutions rather than trade-offs, which is also something TS talks about. Very unfortunate.
I'd respect people more if they said: "Affirmative action hurts Asians and whites, and it probably leads to perceptions that blacks aren't very smart, but this is why it's worth it:..."
I think Sowell pushed back once on lefties who wanted to do away with background checks because they said it was racist. It actually made things worse.
Correct. Because due to the higher crime rates among blacks, uncertainty means that everyone pays the price of that suspicion. But when background checks were done, companies knew this guy they liked definitely did not have a criminal history and was therefore safe.
They do not care about results. They certainly do not care about their mascots. They care about virtue-signaling.
Me being me, I wouldn't very polite (but I would definitely recommend that others be).
So some guy once said that "we want diversity because we want people with different life experiences".
I thought later on that I should have burst in with a question of: how do you know this 'diversity' automatically means different life experiences? Or: so... how many redheads are there, because they have had different life experiences like being bullied in school. Or: would that include people with bad body odor? They sure have different experiences?
If they ever bring up transgenderism, I'd point to my beard and ask if they would consider me female.
I've honest had it up to here with this nonsense, but the good thing is that we don't have that 'internalized racism' crap here (yet).
That hasn’t appears at my job as of yet. Hopefully it doesn’t but I have asked people to really consider the absurdity of assuming something is good simply because it is diverse
I've found that people who waver realize the issue when it's their hide on the line. So they don't care about 'university admissions' in the abstract, but hiring pilots for reasons of diversity, or surgeons.
No, no, it's supposed to hurt other people. Not me! DO IT TO JULIA!
And the crazy thing is that I have relatives who support affirmative action but get mad that there is a perception that a black person didn’t earn their promotion or is only a diversity hire. Or lowering standards on tests. I try to point out this is precisely why the perception exists. They don’t see the connection.
I think Sowell pushed back once on lefties who wanted to do away with background checks because they said it was racist. It actually made things worse.
They don't want to see it, I think. They're possessed by the idea that the only way some people can get ahead is by undue favoritism. And they think in terms of solutions rather than trade-offs, which is also something TS talks about. Very unfortunate.
I'd respect people more if they said: "Affirmative action hurts Asians and whites, and it probably leads to perceptions that blacks aren't very smart, but this is why it's worth it:..."
Correct. Because due to the higher crime rates among blacks, uncertainty means that everyone pays the price of that suspicion. But when background checks were done, companies knew this guy they liked definitely did not have a criminal history and was therefore safe.
They do not care about results. They certainly do not care about their mascots. They care about virtue-signaling.