Does Immigration Distort DEI Numbers？ ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about diversity and equity and how it applies to education, employment, and public policy. We discuss the impact of immigration on our equity numbers, and how that impacts our ability to achieve equal outcomes.
Transcript
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Through the DEI, this diversity, equity, and inclusion lens, that is, these initiatives
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are both in our national policies at a governmental level and also in institutions, like they're
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in the hospitals, they're in universities, and they're in our workplaces as well.
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And there's this idea that the equity component of that is, it's equal outcomes.
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And commonly you'll see, well, somebody will pull up stats and they'll say, well, look
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at these people, a group of people based on a identifying, part of an identity group,
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But we're just talking about this influx of immigration.
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Because we would expect people who are either don't have the skills or maybe don't have the
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full education to excel, or they haven't had enough time to really establish some roots in
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If Canada has a 500,000 to a million per year now of immigration, that's going to show up
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as proof of systemic discrimination against people who are not in these like dominant groups
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or Caucasian, or it's going to be used as proof that more equity initiatives are needed.
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And maybe not in the way that DEI advocates would want.
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Well, they're already, they're already facing hypocritical realities when it comes, like
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Peter Boghossian talks about this all the time.
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If, if SAT scores in the US were truly representative of who was led into post-secondary institutions,
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So there is, you know, people forget that it works both ways.
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You know, you've, you've, in order to discriminate, discriminate on behalf of someone, you have
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So you're using, it just, it depends on what metric you want to equalize for.
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Current discrimination to fix like past injustices.
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I mean, it's the only, it's the only remedy apparently.
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He, I think he walked that, that quote back after.