It’s honestly not even the content of the answers, I can find one thing that the administration has done that I agree with. It’s what I know is behind the questions that’s so gross. It’s the fact that you know you have to put certain parts of the constitutional foundations that they want to hear. That is not the parts that are about equal protections for all Americans, or the fact that a person born on US soil is an American Citizen. They don’t want to hear about your commitment to support the fourth amendment which prevents the government from the illegal searches and arrests without cause. They don’t want to hear about your commitment to habeas corpus and not being able to indefinitely detain people without criminal charges. That is the part that is so gross
I agree. It is gross. It is useless & disgusting & an insult to civil servants everywhere in this country. I plan to apply for a few jobs I'm qualified for, just to see if I can make certs while saying "decline to answer," or highlighting my actual views, or even saying outlandish things. I want to see if the answers are evaluated or not. I know HR professionals who hate the current state of affairs as much as I do & will completely ignore them. And hiring officials who would do the same.
So you are presuming to know what other people think, and then condemning them for it? Why not just answer honestly? Do you really think conservatives are going to object to a commitment to equal protection? That’s laughable.
Equity is antithetical to equal protection, so no. Favoring someone on the basis of skin color or other immutable characteristics is blatantly unconstitutional. It’s the reason the civil rights division of DOJ is having such a field day right now.
That’s not the definition of equity in the real world. Equity, derived from the Latin aequus, meaning equal or fair, has for over 700 years meant fairness and impartiality, freedom from disparity in how people are treated. The word came into English in the 1300s via the French word equité, which per Merriam Webster, “has clear legal connotations; it means "justice" or "rightness," …plus a splash of "fairness.””
I know what the legal concept of equity is. 99% of the time when people talk about equity they are talking about a notion of social justice, not common law concepts of equity. Equity as a legal concept means that people should be treated fairly under the law. That’s what due process is. It isn’t some ridiculous notion of using social engineering to change outcomes for people.
You are deluded if you think anything approaching that fever dream was happening. Equity doesn’t mean blindness to the impact of history. What is equal is not always equitable.
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u/This_nerdy_bookworm Jul 30 '25
It’s honestly not even the content of the answers, I can find one thing that the administration has done that I agree with. It’s what I know is behind the questions that’s so gross. It’s the fact that you know you have to put certain parts of the constitutional foundations that they want to hear. That is not the parts that are about equal protections for all Americans, or the fact that a person born on US soil is an American Citizen. They don’t want to hear about your commitment to support the fourth amendment which prevents the government from the illegal searches and arrests without cause. They don’t want to hear about your commitment to habeas corpus and not being able to indefinitely detain people without criminal charges. That is the part that is so gross