Charles Tyler
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

This software and the thinking it follows is essentially the same as promoting “color blindness” which refuses to take into consideration historical and structural imbalances and the importance of differences in opinion and experiences. It instead tries to normalize certain behavior, actions, and thinking that is considered unbiased or common sense but is inherently filled with its own biases. It assumes that the questions/actions of a blind hiring process is culturally, racially, and sexually neutral. Which is impossible. It further ensures that only certain types of thinking are promoted and that other non-tested characteristics are irrelevant to doing the job. Finally, it allows employers to hide behind software to explain their lack of diversity. What is needed is to promote the hiring of diverse people, gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and class, not try to remove any indicators.

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