Faking Diversity Transparency
Current student at IU here. Wanted to share the email that has been circulating around my school and multiple BBs/EBs that disproves the argument that these IU students have not been faking diversity. These candidates obviously DO NOT have diverse backgrounds.
When confronted by HR after receiving an offer through one of the EB diversity programs, this lad clearly spins up a fake story.
Whether or not you support diversity recruiting or the purpose of the post yesterday, the mental gymnastics should give you a bit of a laugh.
This was posted last night, but that OP didn't have enough of a spine to leave it up.
Proceeds to double down and continue to lie about his race
First off, a genuine question to all the DEI experts: Does African = “Black”? What about South Africans which are predominantly white. Under this circumstance, I’d assume any white South African could make the claim of being Black by saying their ancestor was from Africa. Secondly, this guy is clearly a scumbag who was reaching for the limbs to claim any points for diversity. It’s so scummy to bring up his anecdotes of how he was discriminated against to emphasize the “racism” that he experienced. Without these loose claims of racism, he wouldn’t have a logical/cohesive story behind the purpose of him self-identifying as black. Can you imagine this in practicality? He “comes out of the closet” as African, and all the middle school kids do a 180 and start bullying him THROUGHOUT HIGH-SCHOOL… those kids would’ve been canceled in a heart beat. This entire debacle emphasizes how utterly nonsensical the diversity programs are and the “self-identification” process is. I honestly would be in support of a deeper background check to verify racial identity and household income (and this would allow for low-income and first-gen students who are actually the one’s being marginalized in the IB process vs the black guy who went Exeter —> Princeton) to actually make these programs effective.
Lol, what an absolute clown show all of this is. I'm sure if most of us went back a few thousand years we'd find ancestors who were slaves for the Romans/Greeks or oppressed by the Mongols.
My DNA is 2.5% neanderthal; my ancestors were obliterated by Homo sapiens. Complete speciecide was committed against my people. Where are my reparations?
Can someone provide a bit more background on how IU professors are involved, as well why the hell we would post this when trying to defend himself? Does this guy look white? Mad confusing w/o context clues.
IU professors are not involved in any way, this guy is not even in the IBW. He just applied to PWP's diversity program as black when in fact he is Indian, and through it, he received an SA offer. Since he is very obviously not black and told his friends about the lie, the PWP intern class and his peers at IU found out he was lying about diversity. When someone from the PWP intern class sent him a fake HR email confronting him, this was his response.
The interesting thing about all of this is that it exposes the insanity of diversity recruiting in the first place. It begs the question of who are we really trying to help with these programs? Kids with any amount of African ancestory in their DNA? I think most people here would agree that offering programs to those of lower socio-economic class would completely solve the arbitrary and subjective (not to mention pointless) elements of "racial identity"
You are missing the point; the email was not even from PWP, it was from someone else in the intern class. Of course, the company will not push back, but when you pull stuff like this, you risk being ostracized by your peers, like in this case. Also, the company can decide to push you out/not give a return offer without saying it is because you lied about race, they can always make up some bs that your performance was bad. Bottom line is they won't confront you straight up but it can hurt you severely, especially in the long run.
Might be an uncomfortable truth around here, but both socio-economic factors and race play a role in discrimination, especially in highly gatekept industries like finance.
Can assure you that not too long ago, it would have been easier for some scrappy white kid from a poor background to break in and rise through the ranks vs. a wealthy Black kid. And even among wealth Black people, they don't run in the same social circles or type of generational wealth that feeds directly into high paying finance jobs.
Whether what we have now is an ideal solution is up for debate, but to pretend discrimination is purely class-based is just wrong.
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Wow this is hilarious and sad. +1 to whoever genius tricked him into writing this.
Also Mole-Dagbonians... it's Mole-Dagbani or Mole-Dagbon. Could have also said Dagomba. Literally anything but what he tried to write lolol.
This dude is on some Biblical tiers of professional bullshitting, holy fuck, listen to this, it literally goes from:
"This discrepancy arising has a lot to do with my family..."
next paragraph is a sucker punch from left field
"My grandparents passed away when I was young"
bro didn't even waste 30 seconds guilting the HR employees that are going to eat this up like a pastel-colored instagram sorority post
"Thank you!" with an exclamation mark, essentially "fuck you!"
If this dude keeps the gig, he will go down in history as a legend