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Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:33AM (#17918890)
So you're happy to discriminate against "white, middle class, men" then? I hope you're not under any illusion that this is anything other than racist and sexist.

IMO you don't defeat racism and sexism by deciding to be racist and sexist.

Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by wastedhours on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:38AM (#17918923)
> So you're happy to discriminate against "white, middle class, men" then?

Erm, no.

My points, to avoid confusion:

1) contextual recruitment means you choose the candidate with better potential for success. That's not any more discriminatory than putting a mental weight to a particular university someone studied at, and is the basis for pretty much every "best practice" recruitment process out there.

2) we need white, middle class men, + a load more other people as well. How is that not clear?

Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:14AM (#17933957)
>contextual recruitment means you choose the candidate with better potential for success //

Now you're bullshitting, you've just decided that all people who aren't middle-class white males are inferior, and based it solely on those characteristics.

It seems like, in common with many that you hold to an idea of "positive discrimination", that's what your comment attests to at least. That's still discrimination, if you select on race/sex when it's not relevant then that's racism/sexism. Many people, the majority it seems, are fine with that.

We don't need white middle class men at all, we need people [who can perform job roles]. Those people have a sex and colour, for sure, but that's (mostly) entirely irrelevant to their worth/suitability.