Discrimination and ethical issues
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General the term discrimination refers to unfairly treatment to an individual due to their personality or particular characteristic that is considered different from others. Discrimination has a diverse application that either involves human traits such as age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity and disability (Verkuyten, Thijs & Gharaei, 2019). How theses characteristics form discrimination can either be direct, indirect, association, perception, harassment or victimization and all these categories form the different types of discrimination. For instance, if two people qualify for a particular job but only one of the individual is hired due age limit this direct form discrimination. Given the diverse nature of discrimination, it becomes complex to control and ultimately eliminate discrimination issues in society. This article compares and contrast two different cases related to discrimination issues and also gives evaluates how Marx and Nozick theories can be used to assess the two situations.
As a social media service Tweeter Company reveal several discrimination issues in its operation, starting with hiring discrimination that indicates a high level of gender inequality, especially in its executive work positions. The case article show shows that the gender ratio of the companies workforces is around one woman in every eleven men; hence it has high gender inequality. There is also discrimination in commercial distribution and performance discrimination; thus, the incident generally focuses on social injustice and unfairness.
On the other hand, the Social-Network-Nextdoor platforms reveal reverse discrimination in different incidents that result from the company racial profiling strategy. It is unjust for the company strictly compel a user to limit freedom of expression while in other social media platforms such as Tweeter and Facebook users are moderately limited in freedom of speech. Despite that, the situation is different; the result still leads to discrimination and therefore, discrimination ethical issues can occur in any case regardless of the intentions.
To ethical assess the Social Network Nextdoor incident Nozick would focus more on individual human freedom of expression. According to Nozick, human beings have the rights to expression as long as the expression doesn’t violate other right and therefore using a racial profiling strategy is against human right since it restricts one from the freedom of expression (Salahuddin, 2017). Contrary to Nozick, Marxism would assess the incident in this platform by classifying freedom as a collective and substantive factor that promotes affirmative actions (Fasenfest, 2016).
To assess Tweeter Company incident, Nozick would ultimately reject the issue of unequal distribution of job opportunities and economic resources despite that this is the real case. Alternatively to this, he would apply the entitlement theory, which implies that social justice is only fair if every individual is entitled to what he or she owns (Salahuddin, 2017). On the other hand, Marx, unlike Nozick, will use social/economic classes and productive labour except legal factors to assess the case for tweeter injustices (Eglash, 2016).
Reference
Fasenfest, D. (2016). Marx, Marxism and Human Rights
Eglash, R. (2016). Of Marx and makers: An historical perspective on generative justice. Teknokultura, 13(1), 245-269.
Salahuddin, A. (2017). Robert Nozick’s Entitlement Theory of Justice, Libertarian Rights and the Minimal State: A Critical Evaluation. Journal of Civil & Legal Sciences, 7(1). Verkuyten, M., Thijs, J., & Gharaei, N. (2019). Discrimination and academic (dis) engagement of ethnic-racial minority students: a social identity threat perspective. Social Psychology of Education, 22(2), 267-290.