It should be discussed. I was naive enough to think years back this affirmative action nonsense wouldn’t affect engineering or medicine. I was wrong. I would expect if everything was by merit you’d have a large number of white and Asian males. So be it. The smaller amount of blacks/women/hispanics you would have at least wouldn’t have the perception of being diversity hires since they would’ve had to meet the legit standards.
Whenever I hear about the need for an honest discussion of race, this is what needs to be talked about. Dont even want to think of all the great engineers, doctors, etc that we could’ve had but were passed over
What annoys me is that nobody thinks to ask “well how many women apply in the first place or how many blacks apply”. Or in entertainment you have IP’s trying to cater to groups who don’t read or watch their material in large numbers
It should be discussed. I was naive enough to think years back this affirmative action nonsense wouldn’t affect engineering or medicine. I was wrong. I would expect if everything was by merit you’d have a large number of white and Asian males. So be it. The smaller amount of blacks/women/hispanics you would have at least wouldn’t have the perception of being diversity hires since they would’ve had to meet the legit standards.
Whenever I hear about the need for an honest discussion of race, this is what needs to be talked about. Dont even want to think of all the great engineers, doctors, etc that we could’ve had but were passed over
What annoys me is that nobody thinks to ask “well how many women apply in the first place or how many blacks apply”. Or in entertainment you have IP’s trying to cater to groups who don’t read or watch their material in large numbers
If you argue that they'll just say the reason they don't apply or consume was some other imaginary racism/sexism down the chain.
Similar to how marvel and dc will tell you that there are waves of teen girls just dying to buy comics but evil men won’t let them.