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Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by mpalmer on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:11PM (#44037413)
Yes I did in fact read your comment. Your kneejerk conclusion that I'm gaslighting you notwithstanding, you are presenting your personal observations as representative of some whole truth. I am challenging that.

I'm involved in hiring at my company, which is fairly diverse compared to my perception of the average. There are no quotas, only intentional processes that ensure everyone gets a fair shake.

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Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by Manuel_D on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:18PM (#44037456)
As I said in my first comment, the nature of dog whistles is that some people use it innocently, without invoking the deeper context.

> ...only intentional processes that ensure everyone gets a fair shake.

Care to elaborate? The overtly discriminatory policies I listed above were supposedly just ensuring everyone gets a fair take. The language of "ensure everyone gets a fair shake," is no different than how my previous employers described our policy to restrict a segment of headcount to one gender.

If you're interested in non-anecdotal evidence on tech hiring bias, here's a few studies tracking applicants submitted to companies and universities:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418878112, the chart with the important data: https://www.pnas.org/cms/10.1073/pnas.1418878112/asset/fc20a...

Study on sending resumes to SV tech companies: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484, HN discussion on the paperhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069644

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Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by raxxorraxor on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @03:49PM (#44045205)
Challenging that should not give you the ability to discriminate because any bias would apply to you in equal measure.

> one side has correctly identified a problem

There is no substance to this, you just believe your perspective to be superior. You could of course take a step back to let others take your place. Perhaps that would be convincing.

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