Science is so racist

[bkkcoh]

If I was in a position of hiring people for my company, I wouldn't care what ethnicity or gender they were, I would want the best qualified for the particular position.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by bkkcoh

If I was in a position of hiring people for my company, I wouldn't care what ethnicity or gender they were, I would want the best qualified for the particular position.

How would you like to own a company and be told by the OFCCP that you are underutilizing a particular ethnic group and need to increase the frequency of their representation within your employee base to reflect the percentage of the general populace?

Nevermind that your employees are all electrical engineers, 90 % of whom are white, and that your geographic location is 95% white, and that if you ever did find a black electrical engineer they always tell you " I don't want to live there I don't like winter and there are no black people there".

[bkkcoh]

Originally Posted by Micjones

While I absolutely believe in White privilege...
I have to debunk the notion that they've all been silver spooned.

I certainly haven't been. I have had to work hard for everything that I have.

Originally Posted by vailpass

How would you like to own a company and be told by the OFCCP that you are underutilizing a particular ethnic group and need to increase the frequency of their representation within your employee base to reflect the percentage of the general populace?

Nevermind that your employees are all electrical engineers, 90 % of whom are white, and that your geographic location is 95% white, and that if you ever did find a black electrical engineer they always tell you " I don't want to live there I don't like winter and there are no black people there".

I would be quite ticked at the government telling me I had to do this or that.

Would you like to be the potential black coach interviewing because he was filling a rule or because he was actually wanted there?

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by bkkcoh

I certainly haven't been. I have had to work hard for everything that I have.



I would be quite ticked at the government telling me I had to do this or that.

Would you like to be the potential black coach interviewing because he was filling a rule or because he was actually wanted there?

No, I would be embarassed to have a job for which another candidate was better qualified because the government felt I couldn't make it on my own and so set up a discriminatory practice in order to force employers to hire me.

[wutamess]

Originally Posted by vailpass

No, I would be embarassed to have a job for which another candidate was better qualified because the government felt I couldn't make it on my own and so set up a discriminatory practice in order to force employers to hire me.

As opposed to YOU (not you) setting up discriminatory practices to prevent you from hiring me?

[Donger]

Originally Posted by wutamess

As opposed to YOU (not you) setting up discriminatory practices to prevent you from hiring me?

Have you ever experienced the same but from a reverse perspective? A majority black company that wouldn't hire a white person?

Even hypothetically, would that be just as bad in your eyes?

[wutamess]

Originally Posted by Donger

Have you ever experienced the same but from a reverse perspective? A majority black company that wouldn't hire a white person?

Even hypothetically, would that be just as bad in your eyes?

I haven't experienced it from ANY perspective (that I'm aware of).

Hell yes that'd be just as bad in my eyes and at the same time I can see it happening more blatantly than if it were to happen in a W company.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by wutamess

As opposed to YOU (not you) setting up discriminatory practices to prevent you from hiring me?

My hiring practices are the same as any other business person who wants to stay in business: get the best talent regardless of color or creed. Period. End of story.
I don't give a care what they do or who they are in their own time as long as they produce on mine.

Is it right to restrict the vast majority of business owners who do not practice any form of race discrimination in order to curb the few who do?
The market will take care of those few, if you don't hire the best talent you won't stay in business.

[wutamess]

Originally Posted by vailpass

My hiring practices are the same as any other business person who wants to stay in business: get the best talent regardless of color or creed. Period. End of story.
I don't give a care what they do or who they are in their own time as long as they produce on mine.

Is it right to restrict the vast majority of business owners who do not practice any form of race discrimination in order to curb the few who do?
The market will take care of those few, if you don't hire the best talent you won't stay in business.

I swear it's like talking to a deaf mute.
DID YOU NOT SEE THE (NOT YOU)?

No one gives a shit about your hiring practices. Just because "you have black friends" doesn't mean that EVERYONE does. So I understand if they put an umbrella over the entire thing.