US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order
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The interesting part
France has not traditionally been a place where DEI programmes have taken root because of legal limitations on the collection of racial and ethnic data. Employers are not allowed to factor people’s origins into hiring or promotion decisions.
In France, you cannot really base any official decision on the origin of someone, even just using the concept of race is considered racist and against the law.
We still have DEI policies focusing on gender, disability and on socio-economic background (which does correlate with ethnicity in a lot of places). Of course in a lot of companies it's mostly for show, but in some it's done with a sincere will and has real effects.
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We still have DEI policies focusing on gender, disability and on socio-economic background (which does correlate with ethnicity in a lot of places). Of course in a lot of companies it's mostly for show, but in some it's done with a sincere will and has real effects.
It may correlate with ethnicity, but the cases when it doesn't are important too and it makes it a better condition. It's also better at countering some far right arguments against help programs.
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Has it worked well for France? I've been arguing that such an approach would work much better for the US.
Using self-identified racial identities for aid programs is too easy to argue is itself racially biased. Even if you can make good contextual arguments that race-based aid is a compensation for race-based oppression, either current or historical, that's not a winning political position.
Using metrics like generational wealth, income, education is a much easier argument to make, even if in effect it would disproportionately benefit these identity groups.
The primary downside seems to be that administering such a program is more complicated, which means more of the expense goes to overhead, and more people will not get the benefits they could because of the difficulty of navigating a more complex process.
I think it works in some ways, there are tones of people who graduate university every year without having to pay for the diploma and getting money to live on top of that (bourse), based on household revenue. We still have a problem of reproduced inequalities, educated people marry each other and their kids are much more likely to graduate from top schools, but maybe it's worse in the USA. I don't hear the conservatives or (populist) far right criticizing this social system, they are more focused on immigration, so I guess the non-ethnicity based public help is good at avoiding this politization.
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Yeah but how do you get the information from the IRS into the systems that manage this hypothetical program? How do you get your parents' and grandparents' IRS data correlated with your own? What about people who don't file taxes? The risk is that all that work falls on the applicant. Or if the program administrators do all that work, that's where the overhead costs come in.
This is something which happens with existing public assistance programs, where so many requirements have been put on the aid application that people give up trying to to prove they made less than X dollars in the last 12 months, or lived in the state for at least 5 years, or have passed a drug screening, and so on. Too often that's done intentionally to stymie a program, but the phenomenon exists regardless of motivation. The more complicated the program requirement are, the more people will fail to get aid they should, and the more it costs to administer.
I fail to understand your reasoning, France is less liberal than USA the state is rather strong and they directly tax most salaries upfront of it being paid each month, they know all your property in France as these are all registered.
Generally they monitor your bank account via the bank themselves that are controlled a lot so they know your income and taxes are prefilled in France. Since most of my income is my salary I have basically never filled taxes I just verify and click accept each year.
So yeah it is not difficult for them to implement such programs and it a much more easy and factual data to collect than 'is this person a minority' -
My parents fled a socialist country many decades ago. I grew up listening to my father drone on and on about how bad Socialism is. He still doesn't understand the difference between socialism and totalitarianism, but following political developments of the last decade or so I am often reminded of his sermons.
One detail was: what happens when you hire people not based on qualifications but based on loyalty. You got stupid people in positions of power, happy to wield it for its own sake. Often with a penchant for cruelty and a vague feeling of revenge (against "the bourgeousie" then, against "woke" now). And it always ends the same: you have to dilute milk with water and lie about it. This is where the US are now, folks. Stalinism, the burgeoning 3rd Reich, take your pick.
Yeah ultimately croneyism doesn't care what your ideology is unless your ideology involves acting on opposition to croneyism.
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To be fair
"If you don't play by our rules you can't do business with us!"
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Yeah, but we don’t try to apply our rules in their country. We demand they apply our rules in our jurisdiction.
They want to sell chlorinated chicken breasts in the US? No problem, but we don’t want that shit here.
yeah and we don't scrub off the protective film from our eggs either.
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France replies to trump with "we wave our genitalia in your general direction."
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France replies to trump with "we wave our genitalia in your general direction."
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They know how to build guillotines, asshole!
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The interesting part
France has not traditionally been a place where DEI programmes have taken root because of legal limitations on the collection of racial and ethnic data. Employers are not allowed to factor people’s origins into hiring or promotion decisions.
In France, you cannot really base any official decision on the origin of someone, even just using the concept of race is considered racist and against the law.
And they know how to build guillotines.
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We still have DEI policies focusing on gender, disability and on socio-economic background (which does correlate with ethnicity in a lot of places). Of course in a lot of companies it's mostly for show, but in some it's done with a sincere will and has real effects.
And they know how to build guillotines.
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It may correlate with ethnicity, but the cases when it doesn't are important too and it makes it a better condition. It's also better at countering some far right arguments against help programs.
And they know how to build guillotines.
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They know how to build guillotines, asshole!
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"If you don't play by our rules you can't do business with us!"
They just keep shooting themselves in both feet.
As if a tariff war wasn't enough.Damn. No chlorinated chicken for Europeans I guess.
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No, the EU has a habit of protectionism disguised as legitimate interest. I recall a case study from when I was in high school, where the EU set the safety limits on a certain contaminant in a product—peanuts, I think it was—way, way stricter than any evidentiary basis, because EU farms could meet the restriction, but African or South American farms could not.
It's hardly comparable to anything Trump is doing, but it's worth mentioning, since you did claim EU laws are all about affecting everyone equally.
This deserves a post of its own.
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This deserves a post of its own.
Maybe, but it's hardly news. I graduated highschool well over a decade ago, and the case study I mentioned was not exactly new when I was studying economics in school.
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And they know how to build guillotines.
It's not rocket science. (Although coincidentally we Frenchmen know how to build rockets too)
