Re:Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against T...
by angry-hacker on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:11PM
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Statistically you can guess all sort of things, like whites are smarter than other races etc.
All I was saying is that the parent comment was racist.
Re:Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against T...
by mercer on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:41AM
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How was it racist? At worst it was discriminatory, but then there is literally no way to hire without some degree of discrimination (even if the measure is a perfectly legitimate 'more qualified for the job').
Let's not abuse the term 'racism'.
In particular, eligibility for work visas actively selects for non-dumbness: you have to get hired for a job. Eligibility for birthright citizenship does not. So there are solid reasons to believe that immigrants to a country (any country) are statistically less dumb than native citizens.
Immigrants also necessarily have more life experiences and more personal knowledge of people of different backgrounds and origins, which makes them less likely to be ignorant and bigoted, too.