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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sincere question, why isn't there a concern for DEI in fields like NBA basketball players or NFL football players? [/quote]

If we started with the NBA, 25% of the now 75% of African American players will be put on a Performance Improvement Plan, take DEI courses, and give up their spots to whites and Hispanics. But that still would leave 50% African American and 50% white and Hispanic. Since non-Latino whites are 72% of the population in the U.S., we need to make the numbers more equitable and inclusive, so 72% of the NBA players are non-Latino whites. It's sad that an additional number of NBA players will lose their jobs, but DEI is important. [/quote]

DE&I is not about quotas.

The NBA has a DE&I program- https://inclusion.nba.com/

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Who cares if the next King LeBron James will give up his spot for a less qualified non-Latino white. DEI is important. [/quote]

Again, DE&I is not about quotas.  I am aware that quotas have been a thing in the past, and still are in some places.  But that is not the goal of modern DE&I.  You are arguing a strawman.[/quote]

I don’t think it is a straw an, actually.  I think there are many DEI proponents/professionals who aren’t all that creative, can’t do anything about the pipeline, and want to look bold and like they are capable of implementing change quickly and decisively (because metrics are important).

It sure looks like a quota system is coming When the GC of a company like Coca Cola tells the law firms that support them that the firms must have at least 30% of the legal work performed by “diverse attorney” and that at least half of that 30% must be performed by Black attorneys or the company (the client) will withhold payment.

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Which of course would be wildly racist if it weren't for the fact that, well, it's wildly racist.

It won't do anything to solve the core problem,  lack of well qualified black law school applicants in the first place.

"Students seeking admission to the nation's highest-ranked law schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford have a mean LSAT score of about 170. Data obtained by JBHE from the Law School Admission Council shows that very few blacks nationwide score at this level.

In 2004, 10,370 blacks took the LSAT examination. Only 29 blacks, or 0.3 percent of all LSAT test takers, scored 170 or above. In contrast, more than 1,900 white test takers scored 170 or above on the LSAT. They made up 3.1 percent of all white test takers. Thus whites were more than 10 times as likely as blacks to score 170 or above on the LSAT. There were 66 times as many whites as blacks who scored 170 or above on the test.

Even if we drop the scoring level to 165, a level equal to the mean score of students enrolling at law schools ranked in the top 10 nationwide but not at the very top, we still find very few blacks. There were 108 blacks scoring 165 or better on the LSAT in 2004. They made up 1 percent of all black test takers. For whites, there were 6,689 test takers who scored 165 or above. They made up 10.6 percent of all white students who took the LSAT examination.

The nation's top law schools could fill their classes exclusively with students who scored 165 or above on the LSAT. But if they were to do so, these law schools would have almost no black students."

https://www.jbhe.com/news_views/51_graduate_admissions_test.html

Consider the implications of those numbers.  White applicants with a 165+ outnumber black applicants 62 to 1... and this doesn't account for Asians obviously.

The "equity" solution is to simply discriminate based on race for law school admission.  Then discriminate by race for law firm hiring.  Then discriminate by race when assigning clients/work.  Obviously the black associates will also need to make partner at the "right" rate. This is what it DE&I means in modern America.

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Did you just argue against the idea of leveling the effects of systemic, institutional racism by suggesting the lack of qualified candidates as judged by a standardized test that is fraught with systemic, institutional racism?[/quote]

Tests that don't give the answers you want are racist?

It is a totally colorblind verbal reasoning test.  Law schools care about the LSAT because the aptitudes it measures are important for lawyers.

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