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What's stopping someone from signing up for Jopwell when you don't fit their racial criteria? Surely once they find out that you're not the race they're looking
by Meegul 10y ago
What's stopping someone from signing up for Jopwell when you don't fit their racial criteria? Surely once they find out that you're not the race they're looking for, they can't deny you services because of your race.
Regardless, diversity is an issue that the tech industry certainly does needs to tackle, and things like this are one way of going about it; I just feel like it's the wrong way. Denying opportunities to people based on race might achieve the goal, but it does it in a way that's only going to breed contempt. It also ignores that poverty, while vastly more common among the specified races, still does exist for some whites and asians.
I believe the metric we should be using for programs like these should be total family income, not the color of your parents skin. Is systematic racism a problem? Probably in some industries. But these days, recruiters at tech companies are not turning people down due to their opinions about their race.
- jshevek 10y ago"But these days, recruiters at tech companies are not turning people down due to their opinions about their race." Not even github? They seemed to want to aggressively reduce the percentage of white males at their company, and bragged about their success in doing so.
- messick 10y agoYes, github sticking it to the most oppressed of minority groups: straight white dudes.
- jshevek 10y ago"Yes, github sticking it to the most oppressed of minority groups: straight white dudes." Are they trying to reduce the percentage of straight people there as well? I thought that gay white males might be an unintended casualty of the racism and sexism at github. There is an argument to be made that poor white males may indeed be one of the most disadvantaged groups, at least in the US. It depends on how you weight various criteria.
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- laughinghan 10y agoThat doesn't contradict grandparent. They could be doing so by increasing recruitment and hiring of non-whites and non-males. I expect that most people in this thread believe that's exactly what they're doing.
- jshevek 10y agoYes, they could be doing so in this way, and I believe that companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and such are doing so. But as long as github retains staff members like Danilo Campos, I have absolutely no faith that github isn't taking a more draconian and explicitly racist approach.
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