What I am asking is, can you could share data regarding preferential or detrimental treatment of candidates based on racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, cultural or any other basis if you have first hand knowledge or have experienced this phenomenon as a candidate.
p.s. I should probably mention that I have severed all ties with this person.
This might not be what you hoped for but after reading this I will ask you if you have done some introspection.
Since this is my sockpuppet account I'll feel free to point out that I'm a person who have stood up for the less privileged against dumb practices and I'm really proud of actually getting my boss to hire the girl who cleaned the floor but had an it degree from another country.
But severing ties with a person over this doesn't make sense to me at all. Also, since this is a sockpuppet account and since I can't cash in my Karma points here (and wouldn't anyway to prevent self-doxxing), let me steel man your former friend:
- are you sure he wasn't exaggerating?
- are you sure you didn't provoke him into saying this?
- maybe he tried to be funny and you have just discriminated against someone who just had a bad sense of humour, - or just as likely, you didn't catch the joke?
- working with people from other cultures often has significant issues. If someone has been burned a few times, can you see why they might be careful going forward?
- does he come from a very homogeneous background? Something HN really struggles to grasp is that there are people like me who grew up in places where we didn't meet anyone who had a different skin colour, spoke another language, had another religion (there were only the official religion or atheism). Should we judge people coming from such a background equally harshly?
Finally and most importantly: do you think you will have any chance of changing your friends ideas going forward or is there a chance that you have instead made him distrust all of us who could have tried to nudge him/her?