Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by rednerrus on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:21PM
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As someone who grew up poor and white, this was similar to my experience.
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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:39AM
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Do you believe that being black or white has a larger impact than being poor or rich?
If so, why?
If not, why do people focus so much on race instead of wealth?
Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by mjevans on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:11AM
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Race was, probably still IS, one of many cast-ist and class-ist factors used to disenfranchise groups outside of the rich elite, and probably to some extent within them.
It would be far healthier to recognize discrimination is anyone not exactly like the person discriminating; which includes ALL the factors. Not just race. (Though that was historically the easiest to notice filter in many terrible and egregious ways that were more obviously systemic.)
Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by ingleswood on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:48AM
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Do you believe that being black or white has no impact? If not, then racism and white privilege are real things that exist. The presence of other forms of discrimination and oppression does not change this.
Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ...
by epgui on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:16AM
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I wouldn't dare put a number on it: I frankly don't know what the ratio would be, or if there even was just one ratio.
I stand by what I said, and my main point was that this is a highly textured aspect of human experience. It's hard to reduce that to a > or a <.
And also I think in the United States, the impact of wealth is quite high compared to other places. I think one's perspective on this would likely depend on where they grew up.
I could never join a sports team in school or other extra curricular, that shit's expensive.
I had to steal food to get enough to eat.
I've been pulled over multiple times, nearly every case because my car was shitty and the cop was shaking me down.
I've been stopped by cops for walking through a hospital parking lot to go visit a friend.
I've had a cop pull a gun out at me and order me to the ground. I was 14.
I was told at a young age to follow cop orders exactly and be non threatening else I may get shot.
My mom didn't come to a complete stop at a side street stop sign. Pulled over and the entire car tossed. The cop told my mom she likely stole it and they will find out what she did.
A white buddy got the shit beat out of him by a cop. His crime was being poor and skating.
I've seen a lot of nice cars going to a car race and then there was my buddy and I in a shitty car. We got pulled over and harassed.
I was constantly excluded from most of my peer group because I was poor.
I had to work multiple jobs to put myself through college -- little financial aid there.
I spent over a decade scraping by because I didn't have a single role model on how to grow my career (or even really start one). Living in a low socio-economic area makes it hard to earn enough to get out.
I was the first and only person in my family to go to college.
I've been ghosted on interviews, called racist names, and hell, my wife had rocks thrown at her as a kid because she was one of like 5 white kids at her inner city school.
Classism is elephant in the room nobody seemingly will acknowledge. But, hey, I'm white, so it can't be that bad, right? /s