A question, perhaps, of babies, bathwater and relative velocity.
I'm not sure if anyone worth listening to is complaining about efforts to clean up racism in moderated communities. HN, for example, self polices that sort of thing quite effectively. "Racism bad" as a principle is one of the most solid points of consensus in the modern political sphere. We should keep moderating out racism.
But your post is going to different issues than the original one, which was talking about initiatives inside companies. I do not want to be in a position where I look at black colleagues and have formal evidence that they got hired/promoted/praised/ because of their skin colour, not their competence. That is setting up an environment where racists opinions will also be evidence-based and doing a disservice to literally everyone involved.
A company initiative supporting building up hiring pipelines is just good business practice. "A cheesy townhall once a month to discuss diversity hires" (from op) is a dangerous precedent for stirring up actual racism. There does need to be debate to decide where the line between these things is drawn, and why.
We were on a good thing with the aspiration of skin colour making no difference. It is a shame to see backsliding on that subject amongst many HR departments.
I'm not sure if anyone worth listening to is complaining about efforts to clean up racism in moderated communities. HN, for example, self polices that sort of thing quite effectively. "Racism bad" as a principle is one of the most solid points of consensus in the modern political sphere. We should keep moderating out racism.
But your post is going to different issues than the original one, which was talking about initiatives inside companies. I do not want to be in a position where I look at black colleagues and have formal evidence that they got hired/promoted/praised/ because of their skin colour, not their competence. That is setting up an environment where racists opinions will also be evidence-based and doing a disservice to literally everyone involved.
A company initiative supporting building up hiring pipelines is just good business practice. "A cheesy townhall once a month to discuss diversity hires" (from op) is a dangerous precedent for stirring up actual racism. There does need to be debate to decide where the line between these things is drawn, and why.
We were on a good thing with the aspiration of skin colour making no difference. It is a shame to see backsliding on that subject amongst many HR departments.