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I get it, but it’s discrimination and someone is going to sue them for it.
ugh.. americans and their endless lawuits
It's true, but we're such assholes that we need lawsuits to keep us from devolving into apes.
Lawsuits are the only language that can reach a corporation.
It's not. You as an employee or contractor aren't entitled to a particular client being assigned to you against that clients wishes. Customers are allowed to pick their contractor
It is. There's already cases pending in California challenging it. It violates both Unruh Civil Right and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. If male drivers are getting less customers because they are male, and those customers are instead being sent to female drivers; explain like I'm 5 how that's not blatant discrimination based on gender?
I don't think it's technically discrimination. Uber is a middle man business which pairs independent contractors with paying customers. If the customers or contractors have a preference then all it's doing are matching those preferences.
More likely than not this will actually lead to those who use this option to have substandard service (either slower response or less available rides) than those who do not.
So MAGA racists with a preference for a white driver... that's totally ok, right?
I mean, as a company whose business is pairing riders with drivers, it begs the question why this isn't already an option so long as drivers can also choose not to drive for people flagged as a certain way. If a MAGA person only wants white people driving for them then that will reduce the effectiveness of the app for them, provides service for someone who otherwise would be difficult as a customer, and it prevents them from harassing or bothering potential victims.
If I want to, as a driver or rider, I think I should be able to choose not to be driven or ride with someone who has been flagged by others as overly visible. That might mean someone who won't shut up about MAGA while I or they drive, it might be someone who has 15 bumper stickers about their beliefs, or it might be someone who has their car wrapped with Hatsune Miku. The consequence of this decision might mean that I have to wait an extra 15 min for a ride or it might mean that because of my actions people no longer wish to ride with me.
Yes, I think that's a good idea.
"I'm entitled to make women who are victims of sexual assault remarkably uncomfortable and fearing for their safety! I demand compensation!"
"I only want white drivers" - some racist.
It's the same fucking thing.
In this case the effect is so serious that you don't really have a good option. It would be like if specifically Asian people were joining Uber trying to sexually assault men, I would probably do something to allow men to avoid Asians. It's absolutely racist but at least I'm massively reducing the sexual assaults. The reason this doesn't apply to race as much is almost every time something was blamed on race it was just a lie or completely misrepresented.
I understand the problem is real.
Discrimination is discrimination though.
Well in that case would you also be against affirmative action? I would also say that's racist, but I also want the perspectives of other ethnicities, who likely grew up differently, when decisions are made. I think discrimination is sometimes just a necessary evil.
I'm in favor of affirmative action because it attempts to correct discrimination. It's not racist; it is racial. Affirmative action acknowledges that discrimination has existed and takes measures to attempt to prevent it.
I also think there's a lot of people on here thinking that I'm mad about the Uber decision. I could not give a shit less about it because I refuse to use Uber. I'm just calling a spade a spade.