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How true are "diversity quotas" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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It's a chud buzzword I hear often. It's something something "prioritizing diversity at the expense of quality" which makes no sense because the whole point of DEI is to make the workplace more welcoming not targeting obviously impossible and bullshit quotas. Yes DEI is handled horribly because usually the actual policies fail to help employees from marginalized groups work with the same level of proficiency required to do their job.

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[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only people in the US who have ever gotten a job they weren't qualified for just because of their race have all been white people

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the past? Yeah, How about today?

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still happening today

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Examples?

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anecdotal, but when I was working maintenance in Florida I had a co-worker from P.R who was a welder before inhaling some nasty fumes and being forced to go on disability. He worked part-time with me doing maintenance; and I found out that despite knowing as much as I did and being older with more experience he was getting paid 2 dollars less than I was.

Basically being the only maintenance guys that place had, me and him went up to my [redacted] church nazi boss at the time and threatened to quit unless we "fixed the difference". She was ready to let us go until the priest there demanded she keep us because some bullshit "stations of the cross" holiday was coming up.

That was an example of racial bias in pay difference despite overwhelming qualities of the other person. Not particularly "unqualified" like you asked; but if this happens so commonly that I can just throw an anecdote at you...what makes you think that it doesn't happen on far worse scales across the entire country?