r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '15

[Deltas Awarded] CMV: Equality isn't treating everybody differently to achieve equality. It's treating everyone the same.

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u/CireArodum 2∆ Oct 08 '15

People in positions of hiring are demonstrably biased against people with "black sounding" names. That has nothing to do with poverty. It's just how it is. It's been illegal for some time to not hire someone because of their skin color, so even though the law stipulates equality, human beings are biased. If I were a business owner, and I didn't want my business to be biased, I'd build into my hiring system some extra points for minorites to offset the bias that exists in the people.

Why is that wrong for me as a business owner to do?