Comment on Psaki says Chinese refusal to denounce Ukraine invasion 'flies in the face of everything China stands for'

• masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Y'all still talking about China? They regularly say on job sites you must be a hot women no older than 26.

  They have lots of rules they will never enforce.

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  • mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I thought we had moved to a general context. My comments are about US and Western law.

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  At the most charitable, there's laws saying they can't actively discriminate, which is different from saying "thou shalt have a diverse workforce". You just go "We didn't discriminate based on a protected class, we reviewed everyone and decided that this person wasn't qualified for the job because of [insert bullshit reason X]."

  But even if it is, so what? There's a lot of laws. There's minimum wage laws and labor standards laws, and big companies flout that all the time. I should know -- I paid for college by working a job in a major oil company that violated every labor law there is. And they got away with it because there were no jobs and your choices were to grin and bear it or remain unemployed.

  One time I was hired by what was at the time the largest company in the industry it was in, and they really wanted me and nobody else so the job requirements were tailored to basically mirror my unique resume. Is some labor cop gonna come in and tell them they didn't need the perfectly legitimate looking requirements on the job ad? You could have someone else with objectively better qualifications, but they don't have the exact things I have so I'm a better fit for the job. There's lots of ways around inconvenient rules.

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  • mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You just go “We didn’t discriminate based on a protected class, we reviewed everyone and decided that this person wasn’t qualified for the job because of [insert bullshit reason X].”

    https://legaldictionary.net/disparate-impact/

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    • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      As I've already said, the law can say whatever it wants. Reality doesn't really care what your book says. Ask the communists -- they keep on trying to implement what their book says and it keeps on causing genocides when it plainly says in there that it's not supposed to do that.

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      • mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        As I’ve already said, the law can say whatever it wants.

        What the law says determines business risk.

        Therefore, businesses will hire minorities or risk being sued/confiscated.

        If two candidates walk in the door, a Black one and a White one, you can be sued for not hiring the Black one but almost never for not hiring the White one.

        Laws have consequences.

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