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Originally Posted by Tinordi
But you're unbundling identities here that really overlap. Some people are poor because they belong to another ethnic identity and don't have a network of opportunities that established residents do. Those people also could not have the language skills to get well paying jobs, or they could be discriminated against because of only a perception that they don't have proper language skills. That's the thing, nobody is saying "I don't like South Asians and I'm not going to give them a job." The line is more like, "I don't know much about this South Asian applicant so therefore I'd trust my decision in hiring a white guy more because I'd know more or less what I'd be getting."
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This is where we disagree, because I think it goes down in one of two ways:
It's either:
"We want to be seen as diverse, multicultural company and we already have too many white males, so we will show preference to non-white males."
Or
"We don't want to get in trouble over the perception that we don't hire minorities, so we will show preference to them in our hiring practices."
Okay, maybe the guy that owns the corner store down the street is only going to hire people of the same race/religion, but anything bigger than that is subject to politics where white male preference is fatal.