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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by drewrv on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:15PM (#14949779)
Believing that diversity requires "lowing the bar" means believing "diverse" candidates are inferior.
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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by amazingman on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:28PM (#14949928)
Again, I failed to find this claim. The one instance I found of this phrase arises explicitly within a claim about a specific hiring practice being discriminatory:

>Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate

Is this what you're referring to?

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by dsfyu404ed on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:40PM (#14950047)
No, it just means that ones that meet the current requirements are not available in sufficient quantity.
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