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If I was in charge, I'd make some changes to the job process
All other fines now scale with wealth of the perpetrator
I agree that an address shouldn’t be necessary for a job application aside from a possible way to contact if email or phone aren’t available. I’m just confused how an address can be used to be racist? This isn’t the 1960’s. There’s no more segregation and people can live wherever they afford.
Redlining is less of a thing, but there are still areas that are predominantly populated by different ethnic groups. Furthermore, the consequences of housing segregation are still felt today. It's not like the people who were forced to live in "undesirable" neighborhoods in the 1960s got reshuffled around.
To say "there's no more segregation" is naive.
And even furthermore, it opens the door for unfair judgements like "oh they live in a bad neighborhood", which might not be first order racist, but are still undesirable. There's no need for it. Only unfair things can come from the information.
Redlining and segregation are illegal and if you come across an instance of it should be reported. Breaking everything down to racism is naive and not helping move things away from focusing on what actually keeps people segregated, like socioeconomic status.
Things being illegal doesn't mean they don't happen. And, again, if people were redlined in 1960 and now a neighborhood is mostly black, that didn't magically go away in 2026. The consequences are lasting.
Furthermore, as an individual, fighting more powerful institutions (eg: banks, the government) is not trivial. Shrugging it off with "you should report is" is technically true, but not a complete solution nor especially practical.
Well that's not what's happening in this discussion, so okay
Deeply tied into race, historically and presently.
Regardless, the point stands that there's few to no good reasons for an employer to know your address during the application process, and a lot of bad ones.
I agree with the way you stated your last point. Hiring should be based on knowledge, aptitude, and/or effort. Thanks for the discussion