Lumifer comments on Stranger Than History - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 30 March 2014 10:11:31AM *  3 points [-]

Companies are not forced to hire literally unqualified people: Myth 10

Btw, AA is a terrible example of creeping progressivism/ir rationality.

Its not obviously irrational, since there are rational arguments on both sides.

It's not a darling of the left, as some self identified liberals don't actually like it.

It's not universal feature of modern liberal democracies -it is mostly an issue in the US.

It's not obviously harmful: the US, with its AA , has higher per capita GDP than Western countries without it.

EDIT And some companies adopt similar policies voluntarily.

Comment author: Lumifer 31 March 2014 04:11:12PM 4 points [-]

Companies are not forced to hire literally unqualified people: Myth 10](http://www.understandingprejudice.org/readroom/articles/affirm.htm)

I am sorry, do you consider your link to be evidence? It is a piece of handwaving propaganda from a site called "understandingprejudice.org" that doesn't even talk about what's happening in real life, it just mumbles about ways that AA might be interpreted.