How is this legal?
I’m all for diversity, but how can this person at Facebook explicitly target certain types of people? What if someone said they wanted Chinese or Indian or Rwandan people? Also, as a Latina I really get sick of the whole Latinx thing. And enough with “womxn” please. It’s just so disingenuous after awhile. #hrissues #hr #discrimination #racism
Wow....ppl actually call themselves “thinker”
"Advisor/Mentor/Guru | Looking for opportunities"
It might be who they are looking for, not what they are
It’s 1st amendment right until person actually denies someone employment based on belonging to a protected class (sex/ethnicity/race/etc). With this being said it could violate LinkedIn T&Cs, so free to report or call out this person racism
I don’t see a problem with it. They are trying to diversify their company’s work force.
Giving someone preference based on race is definition of racism. And most people agree that racism is a bad thing.
Are skin color and ethnicity the most important diversity dimensions?
They are just letting their preferences be known to the public, it’s blunt and should save everyone time. Isn’t it called affirmative action?
I think that LinkedIn post seems to fit into the definition of racism.
Differentiated sourcing is legal (and cis white men have had this benefit for decades) - preferential hiring processes are not. This falls squarely into the former category
I swear, every time this comes up, someone always says “racism is okay because they used to do it too”
That's not what I said? I said differential sourcing and expending increased effort to reach a more diverse pool is legal. Any networking event that isnt open invitation operates in the same way. The anger only seems to come into it when we are not in the targeted group. Hiring based on protected characteristics is, correctly, illegal.
As a whitx mxn, I feel attacked by this posting
Strange. I’m opposed to the intersectional cult, but claiming to be feeling attacked is just playing their game
>diversity politics for me but not for thee Nah the only solution is to collectivize and fight back for White people. I mean I'm black, but fuck me if I want to live in a place that's like 90% "African-American". You know these people became Americans because nobody wanted them in Africa. They were probably giving them away for free. "Here White man take our trash, please just take it, it's free"
Wtf is a womxn?
My guess is that it's legal as everyone ends up in the same pool of candidates. If a company sets up a recruiting booth at a historically black college, or a rural college with mostly white people.... That won't be illegal. But if they reject one or the other based on race then that would illegal. IANAL. When in college I definitely did go to recruiting events where I did not meet the "criteria" and was even encouraged. The society of women engineer events had good food, too!
Sounds like they’re just looking for people to refer.