I’d like to start a series seeking viewpoints from across the political spectrum in general discussions about modern society and where everyone stands on what is not working, what is working, and where we see things going in the future.

Please answer in good-faith and if you don’t consider yourself conservative or “to the right”, please reserve top-level discussion for those folks so it reaches the “right” folks haha.

Please don’t downvote respectful content that is merely contrary to your political sensibillities, lets have actual discourse and learn more about each other and our respective viewpoints.

Will be doing other sides soon but lets start with this and see where it takes us.

  • Moneo@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    I’m not arguing for affirmative action, but the current system does not treat everyone equally. People applying to jobs with black sounding names get hired/interviewed much less than white sounding names on equivalent resumes.

    I don’t know what the solution is but the current system is not working.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
      21·
      6 months ago

      Take names off then.

      Hiring unevenly now to make up for things in the past just makes inequality now. It doesn’t solve any inequality of the past.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      I keep seeing this claim, but where are those numbers coming from? Are they from recent studies, or 20 year old studies? If you check the news you will see that companies like Google are actually being sued for purging white candidates, and Asian males. Straight up just deleting their applications based on their ethnicity and sex. Google is not alone in this. There are plenty of other companies you can find news for. The company I work for said that 85% of all interviewees need to classify as “diversity hires”. So, I keep seeing the claim that white people have an advantage when applying for jobs, but what I actually see at the corporate policy level is the exact opposite.