Prop 16, racial preferences for SBA loans, racial preferences for USDA loan forgiveness, floating racial preferences for covid vaccines, and now this. It’s remarkable how much political capital is being spent on approaches that remain unpopular among all racial groups half a century after the affirmative action debates of the 1970s: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe...
> White people were the most opposed to considering race and ethnicity in hiring and promotion: 78 percent said only qualifications should be considered. But a majority of black respondents (54 percent) and Hispanic respondents (69 percent) also said race and ethnicity shouldn’t be considered.
Constitutional issues aside, Gavin Newsome saying that this law is a win for “racial justice and empowerment” seems like trickle down economics. The premise behind these efforts seems to be that if you appoint say an Asian American to the Board of a Fortune 500 company, collectively these people will steer society in ways that will help recent Asian immigrants in Chinatown. That seems bizarre to me. Elite minorities are still elites. They went to the same elite schools, have very similar elite world views. And they often have limited connections to the people in their minority groups who are the ones who really need help.
I’m a first generation Bangladeshi immigrant and I have close family that’s part of NYC’s large low income Bangladeshi immigrant community. And even then I think it’s silly to think that putting me on a corporate board would meaningfully address the plight of recent immigrants. I went to school with white elites and share most of my worldview with white elites. I wouldn’t do anything any differently than they would. I would probably go out of my way to not do anything differently.
> White people were the most opposed to considering race and ethnicity in hiring and promotion: 78 percent said only qualifications should be considered. But a majority of black respondents (54 percent) and Hispanic respondents (69 percent) also said race and ethnicity shouldn’t be considered.
Constitutional issues aside, Gavin Newsome saying that this law is a win for “racial justice and empowerment” seems like trickle down economics. The premise behind these efforts seems to be that if you appoint say an Asian American to the Board of a Fortune 500 company, collectively these people will steer society in ways that will help recent Asian immigrants in Chinatown. That seems bizarre to me. Elite minorities are still elites. They went to the same elite schools, have very similar elite world views. And they often have limited connections to the people in their minority groups who are the ones who really need help.
I’m a first generation Bangladeshi immigrant and I have close family that’s part of NYC’s large low income Bangladeshi immigrant community. And even then I think it’s silly to think that putting me on a corporate board would meaningfully address the plight of recent immigrants. I went to school with white elites and share most of my worldview with white elites. I wouldn’t do anything any differently than they would. I would probably go out of my way to not do anything differently.