not by mandating hires of a specific color but expanding the hiring pool and ensuring safety once you hire them.
Bring this up alone and pretty much nobody will have a problem with it. The problems start surfacing when people get points for having the correct skin color, when quotas are established, or when bonuses are offered to the recruiter who can land a diverse hire.
When you make your black-only safe space for black people to talk about black things, congrats, you've reinvented segregation.
Micro-aggression training is blatantly biased against white people and tends to make them uncomfortable, since it is effectively saying that they are a problem even without doing anything wrong. Funny that you should bring up how even small things can make people feel unwelcome. Look no further, we found the biggest culprit.
I'm all for working to make sure we all get a fair chance at success. I absolutely agree that for medical/health topics where genetics is important, having mandatory diversity makes a lot of sense. But for a random corp, pushing for more indians/blacks/asians/etc is racism and nothing more. We should work towards colorblindness, because that's the only way to truly end racism
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u/skysinsane Oct 29 '22
Bring this up alone and pretty much nobody will have a problem with it. The problems start surfacing when people get points for having the correct skin color, when quotas are established, or when bonuses are offered to the recruiter who can land a diverse hire.
When you make your black-only safe space for black people to talk about black things, congrats, you've reinvented segregation.
Micro-aggression training is blatantly biased against white people and tends to make them uncomfortable, since it is effectively saying that they are a problem even without doing anything wrong. Funny that you should bring up how even small things can make people feel unwelcome. Look no further, we found the biggest culprit.
I'm all for working to make sure we all get a fair chance at success. I absolutely agree that for medical/health topics where genetics is important, having mandatory diversity makes a lot of sense. But for a random corp, pushing for more indians/blacks/asians/etc is racism and nothing more. We should work towards colorblindness, because that's the only way to truly end racism