M4C8 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:01 pm
MacynSnow wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:53 pm
Your not wrong on that.Also note there's no Dude with any Authority AT ALL in Marvel right now, which is TECHNICALLY still Discrimination on the basis of Sex. Take THAT SJW'S!
I've said for years that the extreme left don't seem to realise that 'positive discrimination' is still discrimination.
Except I think the situation is more complicated than that.
If certain groups have been largely (obviously not entirely-there are always exceptions) excluded from a field for years, even generations, then simply dropping the gatekeeping of discrimination ISN'T going to rectify the matter. The same types of people will still be in all the hiring and decision making positions, and even absent any overt prejudices, those people will tend to hire people similar to those already working in the field, i.e., people more or less like them.
So preferential hiring (or affirmative action, if one must) is usually necessary for the situation to change, and workplaces to become more diverse.
But...this obviously comes with a couple drawbacks: first, it penalizes some in the majority group who've done nothing wrong, in order to correct past injustices; second, individuals may be hired primarily for diversity, rather than because of talent (note that past hiring decisions were often ALSO made due to social connections, nepotism, and majority group membership rather than skill level and aptitude).
Greycrusader does NOT pretend to have a good answer to these conundrums.
All my best.