RE: What Do You Call a Fiscal Progressive and a Social Conservative?
February 7, 2017 at 6:48 am
I think you're weird.
Let's break it down, shall we?
But why are you using your white male dominant bias to label and group other people?
In practice, do those two "groups" perform equally well?
Also, why are there so many homeless veterans to begin with? Perhaps that's a more worthwhile research path that will help fix that internal problem.
Either way, it's a false dichotomy, what you're using here... you know that, right?
I don't know about you... but I'd prefer to work with someone who's pleasant to look at, provided the alternative offered as much promise in terms of actually getting the work done.
If you have two different people, from two different races, but showing equal promise of getting the work done, how do you, as an HR guy, decide who to hire?
Who said it was OK to pay shorter people less?
Just because statistics show it to be the case, doesn't mean that, for the same job, they get paid less.
The problem is you're probably using crappy statistics.
Do short people get into high paying jobs? Maybe, on average, there's much less of such people in these jobs, thus elevating the average pay for taller people?
And why?
I'd wager that higher paying jobs (in this present capitalist society) are in the hands of confident people and it is well known that taller people feel more confident and, hence, get those jobs, while short people, lacking in confidence, are not hired, some don't even go out to get them... remaining in low paying jobs.
Maybe you should get your head out of your hole-in-the-ground, stop whining and look at the big picture!
Avoid false dichotomies, false comparisons, search for the real reasons for things... and try to make them better.
Let's break it down, shall we?
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: Why do some groups deserve our help and sympathy, but not others?Deserve, I think they all do deserve.
But why are you using your white male dominant bias to label and group other people?
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: Why do black and latino people deserve pay equity, but autistic people don't?Deserve, again... if both individuals perform equally well, they deserve equal compensation for their work.
In practice, do those two "groups" perform equally well?
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: Why do we care more about refugees than homeless veterans?Care to show us some figures as to how many veterans are housed and taken care for, versus how many refugees are housed and taken care of?
Also, why are there so many homeless veterans to begin with? Perhaps that's a more worthwhile research path that will help fix that internal problem.
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: Why is it wrong to favor someone in a hiring decision based on their race, but it's not wrong to favor someone in a hiring decision based on their good looks?Because race is mostly objective and good looks are a bit subjective?
Either way, it's a false dichotomy, what you're using here... you know that, right?
I don't know about you... but I'd prefer to work with someone who's pleasant to look at, provided the alternative offered as much promise in terms of actually getting the work done.
If you have two different people, from two different races, but showing equal promise of getting the work done, how do you, as an HR guy, decide who to hire?
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: And why is it wrong to pay a woman less than man, but it's OK to pay a shorter person less money than a taller person (taller people make more money than shorter people)?
Who said it was OK to pay shorter people less?
Just because statistics show it to be the case, doesn't mean that, for the same job, they get paid less.
The problem is you're probably using crappy statistics.
Do short people get into high paying jobs? Maybe, on average, there's much less of such people in these jobs, thus elevating the average pay for taller people?
And why?
I'd wager that higher paying jobs (in this present capitalist society) are in the hands of confident people and it is well known that taller people feel more confident and, hence, get those jobs, while short people, lacking in confidence, are not hired, some don't even go out to get them... remaining in low paying jobs.
(February 7, 2017 at 5:48 am)InquiringMind Wrote: "Social Justice" is applied so inconsistently that it makes no sense to me.
Maybe you should get your head out of your hole-in-the-ground, stop whining and look at the big picture!
Avoid false dichotomies, false comparisons, search for the real reasons for things... and try to make them better.
