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Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by Mindcraft on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:28AM (#14978580)
Discrimination is not by definition unfair, the context is important, or do you think aiding people in need but not those who aren't is unfair?.

If you want to reach a balanced state from a unbalanced one, you need to discriminate to provide more for the people that are behind.

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Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by gspetr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:39AM (#14978986)
What we should provide is equality of opportunity (i.e. anyone should be given a fair and equal treatment in an interview) not equality of outcome (someone should be given a job, just because they represent a certain segment of population).
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Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by radisb on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:03PM (#14993121)
Exactly. I really can't understand why someone would fail to see this. Unless they have some other definition of equality. But I genuinely would like to hear other definitions and discuss the semantics of that word in the social context.
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Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science by platform13 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @10:18AM (#14997965)
equality of opportunity should mean that equivalent effort should yield equivalent results, right?
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