> "Running it in reverse" would be claiming that you didn't actively discriminate in favor of the majority, it just so happened to happen because you did something else.
Again, that's not the reverse of the logic here.
> This has been tested over and over again... for instance, it is the reason why IQ tests are de facto illegal to use for hiring.
IQ tests are neither de facto nor de jure illegal for hiring; they are used in hiring for a number of jobs, and have survived legal challenges in several of those uses.
> Yes, but again, de facto it's not safe to use things that would be discriminatory as even part of the hiring process if it were going the other direction.
Sure it is. Lots of individual components of company's funnels are discriminatory in "the other direction" taken separately.
Person-to-person contact from a manager to a particular potential candidate letting them know of an opening is a frequent component of a companies recruiting system (obviously not the sole component!) and it frequently does discriminate, because of the way human social circles work, in favor of whatever groups are already overrepresented at that firm. Yet its pretty clearly not illegal in practice to have that be part of the hiring system.
Again, that's not the reverse of the logic here.
> This has been tested over and over again... for instance, it is the reason why IQ tests are de facto illegal to use for hiring.
IQ tests are neither de facto nor de jure illegal for hiring; they are used in hiring for a number of jobs, and have survived legal challenges in several of those uses.
> Yes, but again, de facto it's not safe to use things that would be discriminatory as even part of the hiring process if it were going the other direction.
Sure it is. Lots of individual components of company's funnels are discriminatory in "the other direction" taken separately.
Person-to-person contact from a manager to a particular potential candidate letting them know of an opening is a frequent component of a companies recruiting system (obviously not the sole component!) and it frequently does discriminate, because of the way human social circles work, in favor of whatever groups are already overrepresented at that firm. Yet its pretty clearly not illegal in practice to have that be part of the hiring system.