Not in this thread. In one of the other threads it was mentioned. Sorry for the confusion.
So, you’re declaring that the Johns and Marys of the world are inherently less interesting than the Laquishas? Laquisha doesn’t necessarily have any life experience that Mary doesn’t, outside of knowing what it’s like to be named Laquisha.
What? Where does that say “declaring” anything? Just says I’d be curious.
A Watermelon? Watermelon? Was it a woman? And if so, what was her cup size? 
You said that you would specifically want to meet someone with a unique name, that you’d be curious about them. Presumably, people without unique names don’t get that sort of interest from you. You must be assuming that there is something inherently less interesting about Mary than Laquisha, because you’re curious about Laquisha, but not about Mary.
Now you’re probably going to say that you’d be just as curious about Mary, if that’s true, then you’re whole initial statement is nonsense. You don’t get to say you’re curious about unique names, then say you’re just as curious about common names. All that says is that the name doesn’t matter at all, which is perfectly fine, but that wasn’t the point you seemed to be making.
No no no. None of that.
Here’s the origin of the confusion: I posted in this thread, off of the discussions from the other two previous threads. Perhaps that was unwise. My post in this thread was in response to the attitude that resumes with odd names would get tossed, and that the person who sent it wouldn’t get an interview.
Let me try again.
"Rather than tossing a resume with an odd name, why not interview anyway? Wouldn’t you at least want to get to know a person with a unique name? I’d be curious as all get-out. "
Does that make more sense? Again, I apologize for the confusion.
Here you are again with your weird perceptions that the circumstances of a person’s birth are somehow determinant of their intelligence and ability. :rolleyes:
You still want to get to know this person because they have a unique name. You’re curious about this person because of the name. You cannot possibly have the same feelings about Mary’s name, you can’t want to meet Mary because you’re curious about how she got her name.
That curiosity only applies to the person with the odd name, they get a plus mark on their resume (must meet because of name) that Mary doesn’t get. Mary has to draw your interest some other way to get to the same level of interest as the other.
To give a hypothetical, you have time to meet 10 candidates, and have way more resumes than candidates. Laquisha and Mary are the last two with a chance to get the interview, if you select Laquisha because you’re curious about her name, Mary is out. For Mary, her name cost her the interview, and your interest in names discriminated against her, because her name wasn’t unique.
They are. Laquisha’s academic merits are not in question. To get to my desk, she certainly had to be just as good on paper as every other applicant i have to consider. However, Thinking further about this, and considering the nature of the firm, If she DID grow up with an upper-middle class background (I don’t want richies either), and is in possession of the social skills I require, then I’ve made a possible mistake. It is more likely though, that she was brought up in a poorer economic class, and her lack of any indication of finishing school, or additional social skills training or experience counts against her with a name like that. I have to weigh my applicants against the steep learning curve my firm presents. If Laquisha is going to have to work harder then the others to achieve the level of service I require, then I would be making a mistake in hiring her as well. It is easier to dismiss the application and interview another applicant. Obviously, if her resume is so polished as to make it to my consideration, she ought have little trouble taking a position with a slightly less choosy firm, and gain some real time experience to offset people’s perceptions. I might have my PA make a few calls for the two that I can’t interview, but since all things are equal with them I have to weed two out.
Ah. OK. I see what you mean. In the hypothetical which I had in mind, the interviewer didn’t have any time constraints and did not give Laquisha a chance only because of her name. So my retort was “Aren’t you even curious?”.
In your scenario, personally, I would have to cull one of the candidates for a solid reason, other than name; some data which was on their resume, or some information I had about them from references. Curiosity about them/their name would not be a good reason to choose.
I see where you’re going now. Rather than using the curiosity as a net positive, you’re asking folks to offset the perceived negative and give the person an equal shot. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
And thank you for being patient while I explained myself.
So you would take other information about their upbringing into account as well? You’d refuse to interview someone born in Idaho, for example, since it’s unlikely they would have been brought up with an appropriate level of culture. Or you might refuse to interview someone whose parents were divorced, or whose father had spent time in prison.
I would think very negatively of a person named Adolph Hitler.
His parents are sick for misspelling his name.
No, a name like Laquisha is an incite into their race. If that is not a good thing for them, it is only because you are a bigot.
That’s funny, because I don’t have any problem with Jamal, Andre, or Darius. Since your clearly don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, why don’t you take your opinion and go shove it up your ass?
I’m not a moderator, but shouldn’t that be in the pit?
Okay, fine. It’s okay to discriminate people because they were born poor, but not because they were born black.
You’ve been here long enough to know that is out of bounds. Do not repeat this sort of attack.
And, on the topic of “incite,” this was way too close to delberate provocation.
Knock it off, both of you.
[ /Moderating ]
I would call in the girl on American Idol just to ask why her parents named her Latrina.