2020 Presidential Race

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Ten_Titans said:
Deciding to hire someone is the result of deciding they are superior to the other applicants in one or multiple ways, correct? And deciding someone is superior based on their race is called _______. Feel free to use any available definitions.
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Yes, but the pool of applicants is sometimes narrowed based on race. Sometimes this is done in effort to promote a more diverse atmosphere. You don't have to like that practice, but it's not racism. That is not deciding that one race is better than another... it is only deciding that there should be a more equal mixture in that particular work environment, or that more than one race should be represented.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I'm going to say this one more time, and then I'm done with it. Motive matters. What you are describing is racial discrimination, but not all forms of racial discrimination are examples of racism. What you have described is only racism, if the motive behind selecting person from race B is either that person B is from a superior race, or that person A is from an inferior race. If person from race B was selected as a means of promoting cultural diversity and an equitable work environment, then that does not meet the definition of racism. You don't have to like such a practice, and many people don't, but it's not racism.
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Which one is the superior race?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Yes, but the pool of applicants is sometimes narrowed based on race. Sometimes this is done in effort to promote a more diverse atmosphere. You don't have to like that practice, but it's not racism. That is not deciding that one race is better than another... it is only deciding that there should be a more equal mixture in that particular work environment, or that more than one race should be represented.
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I understand what you are saying. But you are narrowing the definition of "superiority" for convenience. Making a policy on hiring by race is making a claim about that races' superiority, period.

The idea of racial diversity gets brought up a lot. My question is: Why would racial diversity matter to someone who believes no race has more value than any other race? It wouldn't. Race either adds value to your standing with a company, or it is irrelevant. If it adds value, that's racism.

The fall back argument for AA has always been about correcting historical oppression and going after racist hiring practices.

That's a slightly different argument, but it's just as silly. You don't fix racism with more racism, for one thing. And you can't look at a place that has 90% white people and say "Well the hiring manager is obviously racist." That is the exact same backward logic being applied to the absurd claims being made about police.
 
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RavinDave said:
Can’t be solely based on race since he has preemptively disqualified half of that race based on gender.
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Trump eliminated 80% because of geographical location and then 90% of the remaining 20% because they were not fundamentalist Christians.
They all have their qualifiers.
 
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