"our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary."
Diverse employees and suppliers have fostered
"creativity and innovation in the merchandise and services that we offer,"
98% of Costco shareholders agreed with the board.👍🏿
Segregationists denied.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/costco-dei-shareholders-reject-anti-diversity-proposal
Segregationists are going to test each and every one of you, to see where your heart is at.
If they haven't tested you already, they will test you soon.
Do you know what you are going to say?
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When this white guy first had to cover sections on racism and sexism in his contemporary moral issues classes he would, for lack of anything better to start with, point out that all biases are irrational by definition.
To be biased literally means to make decisions or reach conclusions based on irrelevant factors.
And to make decisions or reach conclusions based on irrelevant factors is quintessential irrationality.
To be biased is to be irrational to the degree of that bias. To intentionally embrace your biases is to be intentionally stupid.
Somehow that equivalency seemed profound to a lot of students and I've never understood why.
Anyway, the above holds true for businesses as well. Costco seems to be run by smart people.
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@CptSuperlative @mekkaokereke Tangent: I have that this very conversation with a Black/biracial colleague (he always identifies that way, so I'm echoing him). I once called racism irrational, for these exact reasons, and his response was: it's perfectly rational if you're a selfish racist. I don't think we're wrong that racism is irrational, but I take my colleague's point!
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@CptSuperlative @mekkaokereke His larger position, one that I've heard quite a few Black thinkers and public figures make, is that we can't "rational" our way out of racism, and I think there's a tonne of truth to that.
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I definitely agree that it's never worth the trouble to try to reason with people who don't want to reason about anything. And people who are committed to being stupid definitely don't want to reason about anything.
However, I think it's profitable to reason with ourselves and other well-meaning people, to ask what our implicit assumptions are and then drill down.
Because, I think, well-meaning white people and men tend to get so tripped up in guilt and other negative emotions that alleviating those bad feelings becomes more important to them than the stuff the feelings were originally about.
There are different flavors of empathy. Some kinds of empathy are incredibly strong feelings. Other kinds are more motivational and intellectual.
Both have their places. Sometimes it's appropriate to be thoroughly outraged but at other times it's more important to understand deeply and enact complicated strategies for real change.
@mekkaokereke
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@CptSuperlative @mekkaokereke from a statistics point of view, this is about "which distribution is actually uniform", and I'm here for it.
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