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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by throwaway_35345 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:15AM (#24224123)
> i would love to be able to say the same for my daughter

Are you going to tell her how you did it?

This seems like a real ends-justify-the-means dilema. I think what you're advocating for is fundamentally immoral. I accept it probably achieves the result we want, but we mustn't do it because it's wrong.

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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by dleslie on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:08PM (#24225628)
What is immoral about educating your children how to achieve the abilities you exhibit?

Or am I misreading; what, specifically, do you think is immoral here? Perhaps I'm confused.

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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by throwaway_35345 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:35PM (#24226824)
When you said

> i would love to be able to say the same for my daughter.

I thought you were expressing support for no longer hiring white men, which is what the thread was about? I think that's immoral.

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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by dleslie on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:02PM (#24230440)
I'm not OP, I was just curious what you thought was immoral about OP. ;)

I think it's immoral to prejudice individuals upon their immutable traits, like ethnicity, sexuality, gender and so on; so we're probably in agreement.

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