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[–]Realwoman 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How is the it discrimination if the most capable people end up getting the job? This is true equality. Are you advocating for equality of outcome? I want the best musicians to play music when it go and listen too it and I want the smartest people to be in charge. Otherwise, it's unfair to to the capable person that gets looked over in favor of someone of inferior talent or achievement, purely for who they are. This is not justice, it's tyranny. And I don't want the doctor operating on me to be a diversity hire, sorry, I want her to be good at her job.

A lot of the differences between groups are cultural btw, not genetic.

[–]loq453 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is not discrimination, but your outcome will end up skewed. Just look at affirmative action and racial structure of US universities. As it stands a quarter of students at high end universities are Asian, yet Asians make up only ~6% of US population, and this is with affirmative action hampering their enrollment and making it harder for them to enter universities. I personally think that it is bullshit what is being done to Asians in America, but it is done because people at large have complained about the racial inequalities in education.

A lot of the differences between groups are cultural btw, not genetic.

IQ is genetic, this has been shown time and time again, and in almost all of the modern day jobs IQ is the primary determining factor of success. It has been shown that high IQ correlates with high success in life. There are other forms intelligence, which are also genetic, but those are largely unimportant in a modern industrial and information based society.

[–]Realwoman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't understand the first part of what you're saying. I'm against making it harder for Asians to enter university just because they're higher achievers.

IQ is genetic but differences between the IQ of different ethnicities are not well established.