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Originally Posted by rubecube
I can be virtually assured that the hiring manager won't consider my race when deciding upon my application. Even if you believe that 9/10 Canadians aren't racist, a black person probably doesn't have that same level of assurance.
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I mean, I'm wading into a minefield here, but you've just posited a 10% chance that a black person would be discriminated against in a hiring scenario. That seems high, but leaving that aside, is it offset by the likelihood that being black might be seen as a positive by a prospective employer? I know lots of workplaces, including mine, put a premium on diversity, and still look to the proportion of their workforce that identify as minorities in some way as a measure of that.
But probably more importantly, the connection between this and propensity for crime seems... tenuous.