I definitely did not say selective immigration is the sole reason for the model Asian American minority myth, but it's a large component. You can see my previous posts for other components to the myth.
The worse the economy, the more the racial discrimination, since there is increased competition for jobs. Various studies, including more contemporaneous studies, show that in economies where there's more job competition, people of color have increased barriers to job acquisition. Studies in 2009 and 2016 show the same thing (people of color were 50% less likely to receive a job interview solely on the basis of race) as the 2004 study I mentioned earlier. A 2015 study showed that people of color had to graduate from elite private colleges in order to have the same job prospects as a white person who graduated from a state university. When these facts are repeatable across the broad economic system, it's a systemic problem.
We know your views on government intervention. You've said previously that you don't even think it should be illegal for a private business to refuse service to an entire group of people (race, sexuality, etc.). We don't need to rehash that conversation, but it's safe to say you care more about libertarian ideology than whether or not systemic racism is a problem. You seem to care more about a business' right to discriminate on the basis of race than you care about the right of the person to not be systematically oppressed on the basis of race.
If you think merit should be the sole criteria for whether or not a person is hired for a job, then you should be outraged by the systemic racism I've outlined previously.
If a group makes up 16% of the population, for example, then one would expect 16% of the employees at a company in that area to also be 16% that group. Since, across the board, that number falls far below 16%, then there's a problem. There are a lot of variables, but it largely comes down to access to quality education, socioeconomic status ("cost of poverty" can make it harder to get work), discrimination, etc. One of the ways to solve that problem is affirmative action. Given these facts and the fact that Black people in this country continue to have disadvantages stemming from having slave ancestors, affirmative action is a great way to right these wrongs. There's literally no reason why a group that makes up approximately 16% of the population, for example, should not make up 16% or more of a given workforce. Affirmative action helps mitigate the consequences of systemic discrimination and biases, and it helps give education and wealth to families that otherwise haven't had it before, which will perpetuate a cycle in which they can pass the wealth on to the next generation and give them some of the same advantages a lot of white people have had for hundreds of years.
I suggest looking into the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Changes in hiring practices were not "organic." They were the result of an organized movement towards racial justice in this country.
Your distinction between whether or not something should be "organic" seems completely arbitrary. In other words, there's no reason I'm aware of why it should be, unless you're arbitrarily clinging to libertarian ideals that aren't actually conducive to well being.
See my previous point about the economic system in this country being systematically racist. It doesn't take a government for something to be systemically racist.
That's nice to believe, but that's not necessarily true, particularly when there's a surplus of job applicants relative to actual jobs available.
Does that include names? Because we've already been over studies where only the names were different, and that's all it took for consequential racial biases to occur.
I'm generally in favor of the standardized application form, however. Factors like race, previous incarceration, etc. should come up later, if at all.
You cannot argue you're interested in conclusions that are data-driven while ignoring the data-driven conclusion that black communities are overpoliced.
There's an excellent Wikipedia article here on the different barriers people of color face at each stage of the criminal justice process. I'm honestly not sure why I'm talking about it here when this information is freely available to the public.
