Thanks comrade. I think I might look up those studies and send them her way. She literally did not have an alternative answer for how to combat hiring bias but said she still could not "support discrimination." I argued calling it 'discrimination' in this context is highly political, because it's starting from a position of the white candidate always being more qualified than a 'diversity hire,' which is just untrue.

I think she wants a world where everyone is judged on merit alone, but that world isn't this one. Crackers hire crackers because of their own internal biases which then reinforces the idea that they are the most qualified candidate. Diversity quotas come in to disrupt those biases and in response the conversation shifts to white people losing jobs to unqualified 'diversity hires' (even the term irks me). Somehow, someway, white people always manage to make themselves the victims.