Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job openings from US citizens

Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by mrtesthah on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:28PM (#45227480)

White people are fully in control of the government at all levels, as well as the economy, in this country. This power dynamic makes the difference between an act of discrimination vs one of racism.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by pcthrowaway on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:33PM (#45227544)

Ignoring whether the claim is accurate or not, if Indian hiring managers are preferentially hiring other Indians, yes of course this is racism, because it means they are also discriminating against all other PoC candidates, not just white people.

Please think a little bit harder before claiming something isn't racism because it might somewhat counteract the structural privilege enjoyed by white people. Yes, white privilege is a thing, and if the claim was that Indian hiring managers were giving preference to non-white people, your comment would at least be worth discussing in the context of a society which overall still privileges white people. But that wasn't even the claim.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by LudwigNagasena on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:31PM (#45227516)

That’s simply an outlandish claim. Most people are not in control of any level of the government.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by transcriptase on Friday September 12, 2025 @07:12PM (#45227810)

I mean there is that one group.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by tbrownaw on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:09PM (#45228136)

Which group? Politicians?

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by transcriptase on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:35PM (#45228257)

Illuminati, mole men, lizard people.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by wizzwizz4 on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:35PM (#45227557)

You can't compress the complexities of all social dynamics to a single axis. What's the distinction you're trying to make between "act of discrimination" and "racism"? Usually the distinction people try to draw is something like "systematic" vs "one-off" (the difference between one person yelling at you on the street, and lots of people yelling at you in particular throughout the month), but the behaviour alleged here is systematic. I suspect you don't have any particular meaning in mind, instead having taken a habit of language that works well in certain situations, and falsely generalised it outside of its domain of validity.

If you genuinely believe that the "single axis" approach is valid, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality.

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by tomhow on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:26PM (#45228524)

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Eschew flamebait.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job ope... by mrtesthah on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:36AM (#45237946)

Hmm ok, I don’t see how my comment violates those points. Did I lie?

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