Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist
by occamrazor on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:42AM
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This doesn’t justify the practice. If my clients were racist, should I be allowed to only hire white people?
Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist
by whimsicalism on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:04PM
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To be very clear, I'm not claiming the practice is just. It isn't. My only claim is that this doesn't arise just because of bias of the interviewers.
Re:How To Be An Anti-Casteist
by derivagral on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:59PM
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If you have racist clients, I'd expect that this would manifest more as assigning the "right" demographic of employee to the clients and keep the "wrong" ones far away from those meetings, as opposed to a straight-up hiring restriction.
I don't think GP was trying to justify the practice, but noting that this exists in domains like finance because the product is an image, not actual performance.
This also has to do with the fact that, in consulting and finance, it is the perception of intelligence by the customer that is much more important than the actual intelligence. Managers would rather hire the team of consultants from the Ivy League and rich people would rather pay the management fees for the Ivy League team to manage their money.
In industries that are more directly merit based and less "customer perception" based, you don't have as large of an over-representation.