has Biden done a good job as president?

[HappySkeptic]

funny how you had to mis frame what i said by cutting 1/2 of said rant out.. it's as you objection was invalidated by my 'rant' when viewed as a whole. you know who does this? out right liars, people who are condition to receive and broadcast fake news and low lifes who deal in 1/2 truths. I say 1/2 truths because you literally cut my message in 1/2 pretending it to be the truth. you practice garbage and pretend to be superior. how bout let that simmer for a bit.

I don't like walls of text.  I didn't feel that cutting out your dictionary definition added anything to the discussion.

I am only replying to make my opinion clear.

Yes, quotas and hiring people based on race is a type of discrimination.  Ideally, the best people from a pool of candidates should be chosen.

However, there are 2 caveats to this

1) Top government appointments are not just about hiring someone.  They are also about placing people in power who represent the population.  If you think the population should be color-blind and accept a whole ton of white guys, think again.  How has that worked out for minority rights?

2) If your hiring does not represent the diversity that is already in a qualified applicant pool, then it is likely your hiring procedures are biased.  That is not about finding "diversity hires", that is about making sure your criteria aren't missing out on truly great talent because people tend to "hire people like them".  Checking the actual results of hiring for bias, rather than hiding behind "well, we hired who we thought was best" is correct, not discrimination.

I will agree that some people's views of hiring can be discriminatory.  If the talent pool is not diverse, some people think that diversity hires should be chosen regardless.  You can't, without reducing your standards (as you have argued).  Some feel that it is a company's job to somehow improve diversity of the talent pool (as if they are responsible for everyone's career choices).  Unless they are a huge corporation, giving money for university scholarships, that just isn't possible.

My argument is that with 200 million working people to choose from, the talent pool for top government appointments is quite diverse.  Also, there is a democratic and political reason why the hires at the top levels should be diverse.  Biden choosing a diverse cabinet is a positive.

Have you been told by Fox News that his cabinet, because they aren't all old white guys, are not qualified?