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Nop (re: is this about covid)

What yns says is accurate but imagine also that the positions of "colleges & hedge funds" impact your employer, your social group, your local environment

If they care about, for example, ESG - your employer cares about ESG

If they want to make the world "vibrant and diverse" or something - your locality becomes "vibrant and diverse"

People you meet in the street maybe work for them, or they maybe feel the trickle-down effects, or they maybe have learned to use the language of the woke as a tool for personal & professional advancement

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I've only ever held entry level positions that hire literally anybody that comes in for an interview so I have certainly not had the experience necessary to understand your points at face value

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Like imagine that these "colleges and hedge funds" are not abstract things - in certain parts of the world they are very concrete. They are employers, they are moral arbiters, they own half the fucking land, and so on

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I would actually need to reread the beginning of this thread in order to create a question that would be of value and I'm going to bed

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Thank you for the viewpoints dumb racist idiot

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I likely don't have the context because the people I work with regularly say the n word

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You know how you walk around and there's like a church or something in town, or there's one single big corp hiring people & one single grocery store, & people kind of venerate these places (just putting this in terms a midwesterner could understand)

Imagine it's like that but this church is Harvard

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None of that here

There are about 6 in the area, population 20 mile diameter is about 10k

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I mean Walmart probably employs the most at about 300 people but yeah

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Imagine that someone says something like this & it actually matters to all the (employed) people around you

vs like

What Alex Jones says or Rupert Murdoch says people are mostly either not aware or literally dont care

https://www.wsj.com/articles/yales-david-swensen-puts-money-managers-on-notice-about-diversity-11603450800

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So i guess the fundamental question is whether or not you believe that hiring women and minorities will eventually elevate them in the long run vs them elevating themselves

Sort of analogous to us training and arming troops in Afghanistan who didn't care and ultimately did nothing with it

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Like yeah you can bring them on but does it actually better them or are you just doing it to make yourself look good

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I don't actually know (or am not getting into) to what extent diversity is good or bad

Just that when the "institution" thinks it/decides on it, it matters. In parts of the world where the institution is not an abstraction but a real & material girl

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I think (based on no contextual understanding whatsoever) that if this action does actually have tricklr down effects and builds a strong foundation in which these groups can be elevated and be meaningful contributors then the action is probably worth it

However i would never put myself in such a situation to make that decision and would refuse to answer this question if asked. I would also be annoyed working with incompetent people who do not deserve to be there

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I see.

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Does this help you understand the US insom

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In this analogy David Swensen is Madonna

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What do you think about Google

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Is the world made mostly better or worse with its existence, and your answer can change depending on which year we are talking about

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You have to also imagine that my David Swensen = Madonna joke is really funny to a lot of people but they're just not here right now (in this thread)

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