The challenge is that historically in America discrimination was applied in a race based fashion and this is not fully captured by socioeconomic status. So the rectifier has to at least in some way acknowledge race. That being said, it doesn’t have to be in perpetuity.
I hear where you’re coming from as an Indian American myself. It can feel weird that some minority groups are disadvanraged / have a handicap applied relative to the majority demographic but I will say yours and our demographic tend to do pretty well despite that.
Until we live in a world where a resume with the name Tyrone or Mercedes isn’t more likely to be discarded without review, looking at socioeconomic status alone won’t make sense. We have evidence now that the AI hiring tools used by major corporations are just as biased, if not more so, than humans so this a problem that still needs solving.
The challenge is that historically in America discrimination was applied in a race based fashion and this is not fully captured by socioeconomic status. So the rectifier has to at least in some way acknowledge race. That being said, it doesn’t have to be in perpetuity.
I hear where you’re coming from as an Indian American myself. It can feel weird that some minority groups are disadvanraged / have a handicap applied relative to the majority demographic but I will say yours and our demographic tend to do pretty well despite that.
Until we live in a world where a resume with the name Tyrone or Mercedes isn’t more likely to be discarded without review, looking at socioeconomic status alone won’t make sense. We have evidence now that the AI hiring tools used by major corporations are just as biased, if not more so, than humans so this a problem that still needs solving.
This is essentially Critical Race Theory in a nutshell.
For an even more digestible in-a-nutshell, there’s also an entire Adam Ruins Everything on the subject.
Affirmative Action is more historically important than people seemingly unaffected by it realize.