Okay, serious question to SJ-ish people, asking as someone who overall supports the idea of affirmative action, rooting out disparate impact, etc.
Do you have any propositions to combat the “diversity hire” stereotype? As far as I understand, it is a pernicious thing that’s on some level believed by many in skilled professions (esp. STEM) - and just calling them bigots won’t make them change their attitude.
I would point out the research on biases that make people systematically devalue the contributions of “diversity hires” and how explicit actions to counteract it could be expected to get more optimal results than simply hiring only white cis men because of their superior skills in appearing more competent than they actually are; and the way diversity is actually effective in finding better solutions to practical problems (I think there was something about this somewhere) (just recently there was an article in the Guardian about women’s contributions being better received on github as long as people don’t know they’re made by women, but I haven’t scrutinized the data yet). My cynical side thinks that anyone receptive to empirical data wouldn’t believe in the naive stereotype in the first place though, but I’d love to be proven wrong on this.
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