McGill closes DEI office, replaces racialized staff
McGill closes DEI office, replaces racialized staff
The Montreal Gazette is American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.
Relevance to this story? What's the grand conspiracy in this case?
@dwazou@lemm.ee this article, and McGill's medical program apparently, are very racist by Canadian standards. I don't think I've ever read something that icky in a racist way in a contemporary Canadian publication
This obsession about race is something I will never understand about anglosphere culture.
Britain, Canada and the United States have really gone off the rail.
In French culture, it is considered completely obscene to ask people about their race. In fact, that's illegal. Employers and universities can be criminally prosecuted if they start gathering data about skin color. The only question universities ask you is the profession of your parents.
What the fuck does your parents profession have to with with anything?
What the fuck does your parents profession have to with with anything?
Everything? This data allows you to see if children of sales assistants, restaurant workers, janitors, are underrepresented. It allows you to measure social mobility and meritocracy.
All French universities gather anonymous data about the professions of your parents. That way, it can be studied by social scientists:
If kids of low-income people don't have the same chances to study at leading university, it means the education system needs to improve meritocracy. Otherwise, you end up living in a caste society.
Anglosphere countries seem to care primarly about race.
This obsession about race is something I will never understand about Canadians and Americans. Never. Never. In France, it is considered obscene to ask people about their race in surveys.
9 in 10 Black people in mainland France say they are victims of racist discrimination
France sees itself as blind to race. After a teen is killed by police, how does one discuss racism?
‘Black and treated as such’: France’s anti-racism protests expose myth of colour-blind Republic
What a silly statement.
These kind of surveys can sound alarmist.
From the United Kingdom:
Fewer than 2% believe educational institutions take racism seriously.
88% participants reported experiencing racial discrimination in the workplace.
Sounds scary right?
I'm not White. I have been to Britain. I can honestly say Britain is probably one of the most open-minded and tolerant countries in the world.
My native country is far FAR more racist than Canada, France or Britain. Actual Racism. Actual hatred. Not "I had a bad day, it's maybe racism".
This obsession? Which obsession?
It's really not that complicated. If a typical organization is presented with two equally-qualified candidates, one of whom is a minority (of any kind, not just a racial minority), the organization will hire the non-minority candidate nearly every time. DEI policies exist to combat that sort of institutional bigotry.