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[Larrikin → throwawaylolx]

Which ones?

[VancouverMan → Larrikin]

Just over a decade ago, there was a job ad for a host role with the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that explicitly required applicants to be "Any race except Caucasian".

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-no-caucasian

While it was portrayed as a "mistake" during the subsequent backtracking, that incident certainly planted a seed of doubt in my mind.

[ekianjo → Larrikin]

every employer that has quotas for non-white employees? that necessarily follows.

not that its not limited to race. if an org wants more women they will actively select candidates based on gender first.

[Zigurd → ekianjo]

Comparing a specific employer against "every employer that has quotas" is not a useful comparison.

[parineum → Zigurd]

Discrimination is a necessary means to achieve quoatas, no matter what the quota is.

Introducing discrimination is often the explicitly stated purpose of quotas

[Zigurd → parineum]

The reason it's not a useful comparison is that unnamed, nonspecific "employer who has quotas" is assuming that many employers have quotas. Who? How much? And did they eat my cat?

[umanwizard → ekianjo]

> every employer that has quotas for non-white employees?

Does any employer in the US have this? I'm almost certain it'd be illegal.

[jimbokun → ekianjo]

Which employers are those?

In the US, they would be blatantly violating the law and targets for lawsuits.