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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by tremon on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:20PM (#26494194)
What affirmative action is supposed to do is to ensure that your race isn't a determining factor in not getting hired for a job that you are qualified for.

No, that's wrong. If that were the goal, it would simply be made illegal to ask about race (or race-proxy) on college application forms.

Affirmative action is meant to artifically boost the number of college graduates from a selected set of underrepresented backgrounds. If it weren't the goal, this blind recruitment trial wouldn't have been immediately canceled: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by headhuntermdk on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:51PM (#26495337)
I'm talking about job applications here.. not all job applicants have college degrees. And your link is to an Australian gender study. We are talking about similar but different issues
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