Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Reply #326 –
Yes... Quotas and the "diversity" issue. I'm wondering who actually wins in that situation.
This has come up a bit lately in our household, primarily discussions about role models. Where are they these days? Who are they? For example, my son brought up the fact that he can't identify with any of the Australians of the Year group, and that every time he watches a Hollywood
-type movie the key figure is 35 kg model chick who acquires world class martial arts skills overnight, with offsiders typically including a meathead alpha male, an attitude-saturated man hater, a black person and an Asian. The other males are either pretty (and useless) window dressing or an unathletic, geeky tech type. The protagonist is typically an greying, middle aged man who is always (lacking back story) evil, especially to women. How many stereotypes can be served up in one setting!?! In the rush to embrace "diversity" I fear we are actually disenfranchising great swathes of the community.
The real issue with it, is we start to practice the exact sort of discrimination they fight against.
Imagine campaigning your whole life to smash the glass ceiling, only for them to prioritise the hiring of people who are not the best candidate available, but instead making the decision based on quotas and targets to have equal representation.
You went to university, but you are a heterosexual male who is married with two kids? Really sorry, but you miss out on the job. We need to hire someone who is either Aboriginal, or of Asian/African background, ideally a female, and ideally in a same sex relationship. Birth gender being the opposite of the one you currently identify for bonus points and credentials just need to be somewhere close to your level of qualification and it will do. Oh, no experience necessary in that case to. You go straight to go.
Its not the society I was told we should be fostering.