I'm now being profiled including my parents social class

When did this become normal and acceptable?

Someone please help me out. So as well as all the open profiling of our gender, ethnic background, age, sex, religion and possibly being blatant discriminated for jobs (using AI) as a result, now, major organisations, including our own football governing body, the maker of the rules, the best in class promoter of equality and wellbeing, want to know what my dad did for a job? why? why is it relevant? so my class of upbringing is now being judged? I lived in a council house, so what? My dad was unskilled hard grafter who escaped conflict and came here to work, build roads and paint & decorate houses. My mum was a grafting cleaner and buffed floors. So what? What has that got to do with you in recruitment and HR? What data are you obtaining and what's it for? What about those who have violent, drug addict, criminals as parents, so what? That is no reflection on the child. Equally if your mum and dad are professors, own a country estate and half of Mayfair, so what? What about those that couldn't go to school or university due to living in chaotic or dysfunctional homes? So what? someone please explain this open profiling and discrimination that is designed to solve discrimination and the digital judging of people you never met. When did this all become ok? I'm not smart enough to know the answer...






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