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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | Do you not want to work with certain races of people? |
0:03.0 | Well, great news. |
0:04.0 | LinkedIn will now allow users to filter job applicants by their race. |
0:09.5 | LinkedIn users can now search for applicants of a preferred race, |
0:13.9 | sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. |
0:19.4 | The new feature is part of LinkedIn's diversity in recruiting tools, |
0:23.9 | meaning that the intention of the tool is not, |
0:27.1 | as some might worry, to discriminate against black people, |
0:31.5 | or Hispanic people, or trans identifying people, |
0:35.7 | or LGBT identifying people, or any other supposedly marginalized group. |
0:40.6 | On the contrary, the tool is designed to designate in favor of all those groups. |
0:46.9 | If an employer ever discriminated against those groups, |
0:50.7 | he would be hauled into court, he would likely lose his business. |
0:54.6 | If, on the other hand, he used the tool as it is intended |
0:58.4 | and discriminated on behalf of those groups, |
1:01.4 | against all the other groups, white people, straight people, and so on. |
1:06.2 | He would be applauded by our culture and political class, |
1:09.9 | which is why I can't muster very much outrage at LinkedIn for this move. |
1:15.6 | Yes, this kind of discrimination is ugly and unjust, |
1:20.1 | but that is not LinkedIn's fault. |
1:22.3 | LinkedIn is just following the unjust laws that the Libs have enshrined. |
1:26.7 | Changing some feature on the least important social media network |
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