Re:Who cares about diversity?
by nobody9999 on Monday September 12, 2022 @03:58PM
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Life isn't fair. Nor will it ever be.
Equal opportunity won't create fairness, as we're not all clones.
What equal opportunity can do is provide those who have been systematically discriminated against (as well as everyone else) a fair shake. What they then do with that 'fair shake' is up to them.
This is a complex topic that reaches into many areas of life, including (but not limited to) home environment, quality of schooling, societal advantages/disadvantages, economic advantages/disadvantages, stratification by class/ethnicity/melanin content and a raft of other issues.
I agree that just focusing on melanin content is a poor way to address the issues seen.
That said, claiming that failure to solve all of a society's problems via melanin content awareness in hiring decisions means that the concept of equal opportunity is a failure is supremely unconvincing IMHO.
Equal opportunity won't create fairness, as we're not all clones.
What equal opportunity can do is provide those who have been systematically discriminated against (as well as everyone else) a fair shake. What they then do with that 'fair shake' is up to them.
This is a complex topic that reaches into many areas of life, including (but not limited to) home environment, quality of schooling, societal advantages/disadvantages, economic advantages/disadvantages, stratification by class/ethnicity/melanin content and a raft of other issues.
I agree that just focusing on melanin content is a poor way to address the issues seen.
That said, claiming that failure to solve all of a society's problems via melanin content awareness in hiring decisions means that the concept of equal opportunity is a failure is supremely unconvincing IMHO.
Edit: Fixed typo (unconvicing --> unconvincing).