Good point, but I stand by my statement, because the problem persists, even if there is a large potential to compensate.
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kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoCapitalism makes this an ineffective strategy. It compounds the advantages held by the descendants of the historically powerful rather than eroding them.
Tamei@lemm.ee 1 month ago
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
DEI and affirmative action aren’t perfect solutions, sure, but doing nothing and hoping the problem goes away is a response that is known to exacerbate the issue, not gradually solve it.
Tamei@lemm.ee 1 month ago
When believing in Equality of Outcome, I think they are pretty sound solutions, aren’t they? But I for one am not.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If your outcomes keep being unequal, you have two options:
- Concede that the opportunities weren’t as equal as you thought they were
- Convince yourself that the people with the worse outcomes are somehow inferior
I prefer the first solution.
shutz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And that’s why proactive DEI is necessary. Otherwise you end up with (for example) tech companies that continue to hire mostly nerdy guys because that’s what the interviewers relate with most comfortably, and reject female candidates because it’s harder for them to relate, even when the female in question is eminently qualified.
Tamei@lemm.ee 1 month ago
This implies that empathy is the number one reason for employment across the board, I doubt that is true.
You will also end up with people obtaining jobs and never knowing whether they did because they were skilled and convincing or because of their DEI-relevant attributes, to which they will now even be reduced to by law.