• Ban U.S. companies from asking employees (or on a written job application) their race or religion.
• Race/gender/religion should never be collected by someone’s employer or any U.S. government agency. For instance, see what happened to the Jews/Gypsies/ Trans people throughout history when society started keeping written record of each individual’s genetic information…for this reason, the modern-day French government bans keeping track of someone’s race/religion.
• The U.S. should outlaw companies from keeping track (or even asking for) someone’s race/gender/religion on job applications or any governmental form.
• Make it a law–or President Trump’s day 1 executive order–that collecting race/gender/religion information for any company (or U.S. State) is illegal. With the possible exception of the U.S. Census, if done anonymously.
• In France, their government makes it illegal (rightfully so) to collect any information on someone’s race, gender, or religion…because a Government can do more harm than good with this info…for instance, see WW2-era Jews & Gypsies & Trans people.
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YES!! Why we do it makes no sense. We’re Americans, there, that’s our race. Although I think it should be on a DL for ID purposes, when I apply for a job, grant, ect, ect, ect, who cares about my color??
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I have found it curious that there exists a spot on employment applications asking for an individual’s race when companies are supposedly prohibited from hiring on the basis of race.
It would seem the easiest way to minimize hiring on the basis of race would be for companies to not ask the question in the first place.
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I agree that a Drivers License should have race/gender for ID purposes. However, for the U.S. census it should be anonymous, thus race/gender cannot be tied to any individual filling out the census form. Thanks.
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