chuckbert
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Sorry, nope. You can have institutional discriminatory outcomes despite having good well, motivated people. There can be institutional artifacts, quirks, policies and roadblocks which can lead to the wrong thing happening. It is quite some phenomenon and I have observed it at first hand.The lack of action and dismissal of racism as "banter" was a choice made by people.
That infers they themselves are racist or perpetrating racism. The people.
Make people better humans and the institution no longer has a problem.
A simple example comes from recruitment. If an institution has the opportunity to hire 4 people and in all 4 areas the typical gender representation is 67% male:33% female, then one would on average expect 1, maybe 2, of the 4 selected recruits to be female. However if the 4 recruitments are carried out completely independently, you are almost guaranteed to hire 4 men. This cannot be overcome by the good intentions of the selection panels or their criteria, only by wholesale change to the institution's recruitment approach.
Similar types of challenge can emerge in complaints/appeals/disciplinary processes.
It actually makes it harder to overcome these types of emergent problems when people discount it just as "individuals should be better people". It just isn't that simple.