Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by eli on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:07PM (#36525985)

I don't think it's even relevant. Hiring practices that are based on class discrimination but result in racial discrimination can still be racist even if that isn't their intent.

But more to the point, racial discrimination has been replicated by many studies constructed in different ways. A famous 1978 study found discrimination when sending equivalent resumes that had a headshot of either a white or black person attached. Other studies have looked at including extracurricular activities that imply a certain race.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by hedora on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:25PM (#36526953)

Yes, but this sort of gotcha study is missing the fact that any merit-based system will discriminate against minorities that are not given a proper education.

Explicitly filtering by race is bad. However, if it leads to the same outcome as filtering by qualifications, then forcing people to switch hiring practices doesn’t actually improve anything.

The blame shouldn’t be on the hiring process, but instead (at least in the US) by the politicians that have set up our cities and schools to be systematically racist.

(I still think this is a bad SCOTUS ruling, to be clear.)

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by eli on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:08PM (#36528076)

In what sense is it a gotcha that people with identical qualifications get fewer callbacks if the hiring manager perceived them as black?

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