I’m not a republican, but I am curious -- with HR teams setting diversity goals tied to national demographics, why don’t we see these companies aiming for 50% republican employee bases in their US offices? Looking for a real answer
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Also just want to add.. twitter's character count is a mind-boggling hindrance to thoughtful conversation and exchange of view points.
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Update: This has actually been really informative, civil, and constructive
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Related but a deeper thought: There should be no “hot water” topics that we culturally “just don’t discuss” publicly. We’re all stumbling through the world with incomplete views. Why not do it openly and collectively (vs the private dialogue in our heads w/o outside input).
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Replying to @jamesbeshara
Oh lord. When programs aiming to correct historical and institutional inequities to employment and education by race were created during and after the Civil Rights movement, it came from a framing of correcting past injustices.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @jamesbeshara
But a Nixon Supreme Court appointee later ruled that remedying past discrimination was not a sufficient rationale for these types of programs, only the more amorphous rationale of "diversity" was acceptable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v._Bakke …
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Conservatives have been effectively using this weakened rationale for the last 40 years to call the ref and undermine programs that were once meant to correct for Jim Crow injustices, redlining, explicit job discrimination, to allow for "diversity of thought," etc.
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The dismissive “oh lord” is a weird way to start a reply, but 2 questions would be a) wouldn’t you think diversity of thought and background maximizes upside (that’s the argument that I believe in and has the most traction w/orgs & b) why the quotes around diversity of thought?
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And the condescension aside, you’ve given a great background I’ve never heard on the genesis of the programs. Given that, separate but somewhat related, shld companies include age and socioeconomic background as quota initiatives since quotas are shown to work for representation?
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Quotas aren’t legal in the US. They are legal in other countries like Singapore.
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