“You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc., that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration,” Cuban said, apparently thinking we still live in the segregated 1960s.
He also said of IBM that it would make sense for their demographics to “reflect the entire country” because “that’s what puts his company in the best position to succeed.” Cuban insists that meeting diversity quotas doesn’t mean you are shunning more qualified candidates, which makes no sense unless you assume that the most qualified people to fill jobs at every company somehow perfectly represent the demographic percentages of the country.
There are two easy examples of this not being true. The first would be at universities, where Harvard and other “prestigious” institutions are discriminating against Asian students and their superior test scores and academic records in order to hit diversity quotas.
The other would be Cuban’s own Mavericks and the rest of the NBA. The Mavericks have 17 players listed on their team roster. Just two of those players are white, while 15 of them are black. Like every single team in the NBA, the Mavericks don’t represent the country. Does that mean they are “DEI-phobic” and aren’t putting the team in the best position to succeed?
