Looking at the commentary at Hacker News, I would say that the author has done a disservice to the topic by ignoring the minority status of East Asians, South A

Looking at the commentary at Hacker News, I would say that the author has done a disservice to the topic by ignoring the minority status of East Asians, South Asians, and Latinos. With very minor changes, they could have used the correct words to cover the topic they really wanted to cover: that there are fewer black programmers in SV than is desired/expected/needed. And that is a topic that deserves discussion. But because the author minimized the experiences of a huge number of other minority groups rather than focusing on the concerns at hand, we are now squabbling about essentially irrelevant material. 95% of the article could remain intact. By cutting the 5% which is both fluff and offensive to other groups, the rest of the article would be much stronger.