this is cultural appropriation from my people (autists)

this is still deeply weird to me no matter how many times i return to it

universal literacy was a mistake

entirely fair

yes, and if they change their policy to reflect their practices or their practices to reflect their policy, i'll start complaining about the substantial rather than the formal aspects of the policy (because fuck me if i'm going to quit complaining altogether)

on consequentialist grounds if nothing else

even if i didn't think discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics was impermissible unless that characteristic is necessarily tied to non-ad-hoc, essential functions of the job in question, it seems to me that a bright line rule is better than regular exercise of discretion

yes, and many cases of the former seem to involve instances of the latter (this one, for example, necessarily jettisons a nondiscrimination principle which holds that racial discrimination is impermissible in academic hiring)

and if that's not acceptable but this is (i certainly think this is likely to be less materially consequential, but my objection isn't consequentialist), what's the principle at play?

ok but surely there's a limit to this right? it can't be that we're going to go fully culturally relativist about this, otherwise i don't see a principled reason why we could exercise discretion the other way round if, say, chinese job posting started discriminating against uyghurs

again, if philjobs wants to modify its policy to allow some differences from the apa's, that's perfectly within their purview, my objection here is purely directed at the clearly inconsistent application of their stated policy

and so would i! but that would already be covered by the apa's policy, whereas (since it's enacted by duly elected representatives of a legislature) i don't think what i take to be your proposal would

again, i suspect this overgeneralizes in ways all of us would find unacceptable

suppose tomorrow the texas legislature votes overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that subjects mexican americans to discrimination in tx academic hiring; i think you'd probably think philjobs should adjudicate that