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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous][quote=TheManWithAUsername]Is it racist for a company not to engage in affirmative action?[/quote]

Yes, if a company has the ability to engage in some sort of action to recognize and prevent discrimination within their own workplace, then I would say that it is the equivalent of the sin of omission.[/quote]
Wow. Where are they supposed to draw the lines? They way you define it, any failure to redress a preexisting injustice is discrimination. You'd go insane trying to factor in all of the different injustices in each individuals life before you encountered them.

[quote=Anonymous]Let me get at this in another way that you might understand. MLK Jr in his famous letter from a Birmingham jail, writes eloquently about how the greatest obstacle in the struggle for civil rights was not the KKK, but rather white ministers who failed to take a stand on the issue of race. By allowing the status quo to remain, by not condemning Christian leaders who upheld racist policies, white Christian leaders who failed to speak out were perceived by their congregations as tolerating racism.[/quote]
OK. But it's a leap from tolerating racism to racism, and it's a much bigger leap from not sacrificing oneself to remedy injustice to perpetrating it. By your reasoning, anyone who didn't march could be called racist.

This kind of expansion of the definition of isms is counterproductive, because it blurs the lines and alienates people. People who do not sacrifice themselves to remedy the effects of unfair discrimination are not the same as the perpetrators of it; it's unfair and insulting to equate them.

[quote=Anonymous]To not even properly investigate whether or not racism or sexism exists as a problem within the company is unjust.

I'm an academic, and when MIT was confronted with statistical evidence of institutional sexism, MIT had to act.[/quote]
Completely different issue (and a legal necessity, BTW). We're talking about preexisting injustice.
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