Great digby post: The problem with hiring minorities is...

Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Aug-10-07 09:27 PM
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Great digby post: The problem with hiring minorities is...

Excuse # 8,565

by digby

1955 - They are an inferior race
1965 - They aren't good workers
1975 - They make old white customers uncomfortable
1985 - Affirmative action means their diplomas are bogus
1995 - They are a litigation risk for discrimination
2007 - Diversity creates depression and hopelessness.

It's always something.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/excuse-8565-by-digby-problem-with.html

Isn't it though. They'll never run out of excuses.

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Igel

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Fri Aug-10-07 09:39 PM
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1. You do realize that you and Robert Putnam would probably

see eye to eye on oh, maybe 99% of the problem.

The other one percent he couldn't make go away, even though he spent years trying to make the data fit what he wanted it to say. Now, I don't know about you, but when a researcher is honest enough to say he tried for years to make his data conform to his hypothesis but finally couldn't, that's a good thing.

Reality is seldom an excuse.

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