Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'

Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NeverFade on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:49AM (#33141694)

> I think you made this situation up without considering other factors because you have an ideological agenda.

> Arcidiacono shows that, after narrowing down applicants to those with the strongest objective academic qualifications, Asian Americans were far more likely than blacks or Hispanics to receive a low personality score from admissions officers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/harvar...

So we know for a fact that Asians received lower "personality" scores than blacks and hispanics, as a racial group and regardless of their financial status, and these lower "personality" scores were used as a basis to reject Asians and accept black and hispanic candidates.

TL;DR we know for a fact this exact thing is happening.

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NoraCodes on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:52AM (#33141730)

Yeah, that sounds like racial discrimination against Asian students! You'll note that I did not say there was no such thing as racial discrimination against Asian students, so I'm not sure how this is relevant.

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NeverFade on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:57AM (#33141778)

So we know there is racial discrimination against Asians based on their race, and in favor of blacks and hispanics. Yet when I cited an example of an Asian kid getting rejected in favor of a black kid, you claimed I invented it. When you now admit we know it is happening.

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NoraCodes on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:01AM (#33141826)

At no point did I say that wasn't happening. I was responding to your comment about economic factors. Did I misunderstand your original comment? You said:

> I'm sure that will be a great comfort to the Asian kid who was born in poverty, got bullied in school, struggled all his life to achieve the grades and stats to qualify for a top school, then got rejected in favor of a rich black American kid

Is this not about the interaction between economic status and race in the context of affirmative action?

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NeverFade on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:06AM (#33141895)

> In clearer words: I think you made this situation up

> At no point did I say that wasn't happening.

So it is happening, yet "I made it up"? It is both real and made up, at the same time?

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by NoraCodes on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:09AM (#33141927)

You made up the relationship between economic status and race in this particular situation in order to strike an emotional chord. No?

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:54PM (#33142917)

They pointed out blacks can have money and non-blacks can be poor.

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