Re:#FFFFFF Diversity
by malandrew on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:24PM
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That point you've apparently missed is that current hiring
practises among some companies can be discriminatory.
Totally agree that current hiring practices have implicit biases that can be discriminatory. What I don't get is how people can consider alternative hiring practices that are explicitly discriminatory okay, because they are discriminatory in the opposite direction.
It would be nice if people applied some heuristic like the "5 whys" and tried to actually perform a root cause analysis and try to resolve the base causes instead of plastering over the problem with practices that are at best no worse than current practices.
Explicit reverse discrimination is still discrimination. Quotas result in a situation where brilliant majority developers get passed over because they are in the majority. How about we try and come up with a solution where equally brilliant developers regardless of their minority or majority status don't get overlooked?
It would be nice if people applied some heuristic like the "5 whys" and tried to actually perform a root cause analysis and try to resolve the base causes instead of plastering over the problem with practices that are at best no worse than current practices.
Explicit reverse discrimination is still discrimination. Quotas result in a situation where brilliant majority developers get passed over because they are in the majority. How about we try and come up with a solution where equally brilliant developers regardless of their minority or majority status don't get overlooked?