Makes me think of experience as director in medical school program. I was encouraged to give a female minority student a passing grade despite failing performance. Was told “we need more doctors of [insert minority] so we need to do everything we can in order for her to pass.” Seeing that process of allowing subpar performance from minorities makes me distrust the capabilities of any minority physician who graduated in the last several years and onward.
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I have a close friend from back home in a major financial institution who told me they had to do essentially this same thing so they could keep from firing a black, female executive. He said she was useless and was incapable of doing or figuring out anything without explicit instructions, but they couldn’t find anyone competent who was the “correct race & gender” to replace her. So they literally invented a new position where they could place her, still list her as part of the “executive team,” but she literally did nothing.
The blind stupidity of those in politics and activism who don’t see they are putting the cart before the horse, by politically forcing the **appearance** of results instead of figuring out why public education has failed minorities and the poor & actually fixing anything, they literally make the situation SO much worse, creating racism and sexism where it didn’t even exist before.
Was told to find a ‘black minority female / non white female for a very important role. There weren’t any 🤷♂️… so I said no. Didn’t go down well. So I suggested employing the amazing ‘white’ guy who was really right and then train a ‘black’ female by getting her to watch and learn from him. Common sense prevailed and now she is alot closer to being ready for that responsibility.
Such a symptom of the fiat system 😂
Makes me wonder if those “in charge” are intentionally trying to cause racism/sexism. And they know exactly what they’re doing.