titan said:

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You could use a variant of the term that applies to Never Trumpers and Concerned Moderates that keep the Republican Party totally impotent: functionally Democrats.

Your argument is some of those practices of open discrimination are functionally Marxist, and that's absolutely true. Or as fixer put it `communistic' -- -which is an invented word, so meaning is clear in context.

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Ags4DaWin said:

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My kids are gonna start claiming native american on their *****

We have no idea if that is true except for the fact that my dad's grandfather only spoke spanish and claimed to be.

But if elizabeth warren can do it so can my kids.

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Johnny04 said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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The pool of minority candidates who choose to go into STEM and do what it takes to be competent or better is fairly small, but all of the businesses' HR and senior executives are in a vicious battle to appear more socially progressive to investors and customers that make purchases based on sanctimony and self satisfaction of want to perceive themselves and be perceived as morally superior. This leads to biased hiring to try to satisfy that demand prioritizing this unfortunately small pool of candidates.

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This is correct. Tech companies have requirements for a certain % of minority/women candidates that advance to onsite interviews. Likely if this imaginary candidate was real she'd get interviewed along with 3 or 4 better qualified candidates, gets passed over, and the hiring team can say "Hey 25% of our on-site candidates were D&I".

It's bull**** but that's how it works.

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It's much worse than just the candidate pool. I worked for a large engineering/tech company and while hunting around for some info, ran across a powerpoint for managers. It was all laid out explicitly: we have a deparment goal to hire and promote X% of minorities and Y% of females. I'm trying to recall the numbers, but they were in the range of 30-50%. When you work in a profession overwhelming dominated by men, and half the promotions are reserved for the few women in the department, it's more than a bit demoralizing.

And this was roughly 10 years ago. It's much worse now. I think it was Nasqaq that recently made a rule that there must be minorities and women on the executive board of a company for it to be considered for an IPO on their exchange.

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