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[–]NecessaryScene1 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well, those aren't contradictory. The point of ending blind auditions is to re-introduce bias to force the selection process to treat people differently to artificially skew the selection outcomes.

You make the selection process unfair to balance out an (alleged) unfairness somewhere else. Injustice towards individuals in the name of "justice" for groups.

Because clearly an orchestra has to "reflect" a community rather than perform to a community (?)

How helping a mediocre player from a favoured group get an undeserved place because a potentially brilliant one from the same group chose to get a better paying job and never applied isn't clear.

(How long before we start seeing complaints of police sexism and insistence than men and women need to be equally represented in prison?)

[–]Realwoman 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

endprisonsexism