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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      Usually conservatives will respond to this by trying to flip the above statement and say that the real problem is liberal hypocrisy.

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    2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      The thing is: I don't know any liberals who think the RNC is required to keep a liberal who starts challenging the Republican platform. Companies are allowed to have ideological values and hire/fire people on the basis of those values.

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    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      Progressives object to firing people on the basis of characteristics that they don't believe they can control.

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    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      This is why conservatives spent so much time promoting the bogus idea that being gay was a "choice". They understand that there's a much higher bar for firing someone on the basis of something they cannot control.

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    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      Liberals tend to trust people when they say that something is an innate trait, and therefore right hard against discrimination on the basis of these traits. Conservatives distrust what people claim they experience and fight for companies to be allowed to discriminate.

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    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      But nobody believes that being a conservative is an innate trait. So no, liberals aren't being hypocritical by arguing that Damore should be fired but Christian bakers shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against gay couples.

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    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 8

      With regard to "discriminating against white males", if you want to prove that a group was discriminated against, you should start by showing that the group in question is *underrepresented*.

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    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 9
      Replying to @EggoWarrior

      Just so I understand, you're saying that Jews are overrepresented and I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that?

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
      Replying to @EggoWarrior

      In what way are efforts to compensate for systemic mistakes in recruitment equivalent to "scapegoating"?

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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
          Replying to @EggoWarrior

          I'm assuming that there are well-known systemic mistakes that are easy to understand without analyzing the statistics. An easy example in academia: tenure clocks coincide with timeframes in which women commonly have children, making it harder for them to get tenure.

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        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
          Replying to @wycats @EggoWarrior

          It's easy (and reasonable) to conclude that there is no intrinsic rationale for that coupling and therefore the policy should be changed to accommodate different life schedules better. It would be incorrect to describe that as "scapegoating" men.

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        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
          Replying to @wycats @EggoWarrior

          Do you generally have a problem with correcting mistakes that have a disproportionate (bad) impact on some demographic because it will mean that fewer members of the demographic without the problems (in aggregate) will be represented?

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        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
          Replying to @EggoWarrior

          Don't you think it's within the purview of a company to identify its own business mistakes and correct them? For example, if a company noticed it was only recruiting at women's colleges, and therefore was losing out on qualified candidates, wouldn't it be fine to fix that?

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        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 11
          Replying to @wycats @EggoWarrior

          Or do you think the government should investigate and punish companies for correcting what their management believes are business mistakes of this kind?

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