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Your examples come off as considering the idea of a qualified "native American transsexual" (which, by the way—we don't really use that word anymore in English and it's often considered kind of rude) to be ridiculous, which I think might speak to some unconscious bias even if you didn't mean it that way.
As I already said, no one in DEI wants people to hire unqualified candidates, which is a point you seem to have skimmed over. The intention is to create more qualified candidates from people with potential who might not have gotten the chance otherwise, and to give them an environment that supports that potential. An evening of the playing field, so to speak. Doesn't that sound like what you want?
We live in 2018. Nobody does that anymore. Your goal is reached, mine is not yet. :-)
In my country, we don't yet have federal-level employment protections for gay people, so, uh, I'm not 100% convinced. My point there was that the history of technology is mired in the very opposite of meritocracy, and it's taking us a long time to undo the damage that caused.
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Your examples come off as considering the idea of a qualified "native American transsexual" (which, by the way—we don't really use that word anymore in English and it's often considered kind of rude) to be ridiculous, which I think might speak to some unconscious bias even if you didn't mean it that way.
As I already said, no one in DEI wants people to hire unqualified candidates, which is a point you seem to have skimmed over. The intention is to create more qualified candidates from people with potential who might not have gotten the chance otherwise, and to give them an environment that supports that potential. An evening of the playing field, so to speak. Doesn't that sound like what you want?
In my country, we don't yet have federal-level employment protections for gay people, so, uh, I'm not 100% convinced. My point there was that the history of technology is mired in the very opposite of meritocracy, and it's taking us a long time to undo the damage that caused.