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  • Imagine being such a statist that you agree with outlawing wrong think. Slippery slope is not a fallacy.
    by lmaoguy
  • Obama forced something similar on schools:

    https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/race-co...

    The policy warned schools that racial disparities in punishments could trigger federal civil rights investigations under a "disparate impact" standard.

    Ergo, presumably, if a school had a single purple student. And that purple student was punished for something. Then the entire school had to also be punished for the thing. To not fall afoul of the law. (Or maybe I'm just too autistic to have a nuanced take.)

    (Trump rescinded it.)

    by profsummergig
  • Our industry should be going after the ATS system use and harmonizing its implementation

    Should be going after the camera on policy

    Should be going after leetcoding, take home interviews, and every subjective metric that isnt able to be verified in its uniform apllicability across candidates

    and according to this paper, even if it was uniform lol

    by yieldcrv
  • I don't see a publish date on this? As I understand it, there have been recent shifts away from what's described and towards the relevant government agencies wanting more direct evidence of individuals being treated differently.
    by tbrownaw
  • Unfortunately the only way to have everyone "equal", seems to be to make everyone equally stupid. This idea has been explored in fiction, e.g. Harrison Bergeron.
    by userbinator
  • I struggle a lot with the potentially nonzero overlap between

    a) "just legislate that being racist/sexist to people is illegal, then have judges interpret" (which is what seems to be simply necessary to actually make progress against the endlessly inventive evil of racism/sexism),

    and b) "but also don't simply make everything illegal because then abusers can selectively enforce the law to punish groups they dislike".

    Tough. Gotta try, though.

    by atomicnumber3

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