That comes awfully close to saying it's OK to discriminate against $GROUP so long as everyone doesn't do it.
Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
by marcosdumay on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:46PM
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Requiring a public portfolio is the same as racism now?
The comment I was responding to was "Almost all of those procedures are perfectly ok as long as everybody is not doing the same ones. The problem appears if every well paying job requires your to have a public portfolio."
IOW, a fair reading is that the parent acknowledges that the practice excludes people who aren't in a position to have a public portfolio. (For whatever reason: IP rules, family obligations, lack of interest in programming as a hobby.) And that would be a problem if everyone did it. But everyone doesn't so it's OK as long as just some of us do it.
The good news is that all of those procedures are more effective the less companies are using them. So unless you the entire field has a very centralized hiring market (as in 80% of the good jobs are in FAANG), there are good odds it things don't ever get bad.