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0 pointsDylan168071y ago0 comments

Using quotas like that would be racist.

But the idea of quotas is something you pulled out of nowhere. It was not part of the conversation until you showed up.

It's a strawman.

Also the post up above was talking about statistics with error bars a thousand people wide. The idea of having a demographic match with 10 employees is... also a strawman.

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Dalewyn1y ago

I agree life is seldom as simple as the examples, the small numbers are just for sake of brevity.

In any case, none of that takes away from the crux of this conversation that programmes like mirroring surrounding demographics and others are discriminatory and have no place in free and civilized societies today.

Dylan16807OP1y ago

It's a good idea to measure the imbalance, and sometimes it's a good idea to try to do something to work against it. It requires a lot of care, but it's not inherently wrong. When there are a bunch of bad actors, everyone else trying to be completely neutral leaves things quite unbalanced.

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