Warp wrote:

>   That's one of the curious symptoms of the modern western hypercorrectism:
> You have to discriminate in order to be an "equal opportunity" firm. Quite
> ironically, "equal opportunity" is the politically correct term for "we
> choose some of our employees based on ethnicity and other irrelevant
> details" (which, at the same time, is the definition of racism).

Indeed, to be truly equal opportunity an employer should *totally 
disregard* data such as race or gender.

The faulty thinking appears to be "if you have more employees of type X 
than of type Y then you must be discriminating against people of type 
Y". As opposed to, say,

- "There are fewer people of type Y applying to work for you."
- "There are fewer people of type Y who possess the necessary skills."
- "People of type Y tend not to be interested in your type of work."
- "There are fewer people of type Y living in this area."
...

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