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For me, a non-white person from a country where some of the population actually suffers from starvation, this is one of the paragraphs that illustrates my probl
by parennoob 11y ago
For me, a non-white person from a country where some of the population actually suffers from starvation, this is one of the paragraphs that illustrates my problem with a lot of these diversity efforts.
> I ask Mason about this—would she do it? Would she consider a
job with a bunch of white dudes? "No," she laughs, because the answer is obvious. "Maybe they’re screwed and it’s a problem they created. But if it were a great work environment, they’d be able to attract a diverse workforce."
I can't help but ask (and I hope this is a reasonable question), why are companies pushing so hard to attract these women?
I am not white, but I have zero problems working in an environment with 100% white dudes, 100% Asian women, or 100% any other group, so long as I am treated with a decent amount of respect. If a person is attracting funding for her initiatives (e.g. From the article – "Other companies, like Intel, have commendably devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to diversity programs"), but wouldn't even consider working at places just because they have a certain ethnic or gender mix regardless of their actual behavior, it is not at all clear to me that said initiative should be widely promoted or endorsed.