So you are asking if companies should hire the people who
are best qualified even if that means they only hire white men? If so, I think that
that is appropriate so long as they have objective criteria for hiring that are clearly
relevant to the jobs.
What I mean by this is that I believe
that the people who are best qualified should be hired. But I am not always sure that
it is easy to tell who is truly the best qualified. For example, how do you determine
who is best qualified to be a teacher? Is it the person with the experience? Is it the
person who went to the best college? Is it the person who comes across best at the
interview? How do you know?
So it is the same with
businesses. If they have some clear way to determine who is best qualified and end up
only hiring white males, fine. But if their criteria are not so great and they are
hiring based on hunches and such, then I would worry if they end up hiring all white
males.
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