Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Indeed, to be truly equal opportunity an employer should *totally 
> disregard* data such as race or gender.

  But that's bad from the PC point of view because then the hired people
would be talented, educated people who have practiced their profession
also as a hobby most of their lives, and people who present all those
qualities usually fall into a rather narrow demographic. Thus if you hire
only the most competent and talented people you are hiring only from a
narrow demographic and thus you are "discriminating".

  If I'm not mistaken, at many parts of the US the situation has gone
almost completely out of hand. So much that, for example, employers are
actually afraid of firing anyone who is not a heterosexual white male,
no matter how incompetent they are and how much damage they are doing
to the company. The rationale is that keeping a few destructive employees
costs the company less money than going through the discrimination
lawsuits.

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                                                          - Warp

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