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That fall, when Facebook’s Williams came to campus with colleagues, the visit didn’t go over well. In a meeting with students, one Facebook employee brought up
by lvoudour 9y ago
That fall, when Facebook’s Williams came to campus with colleagues, the visit didn’t go over well. In a meeting with students, one Facebook employee brought up diversity so often that students say they felt uncomfortable—as if she wanted to talk only about the color of their skin and not programming. The event had been advertised as focused on diversity, but students had been eager to talk about jobs
Is it so damn hard to understand that selecting skilled people based on their physiology rather than their abilities, is extremely offensive and demeaning?
Yes there are many who will say nothing and take the job (a salary is a salary after all) but I don't know if there's a skilled person out there who wouldn't feel disrespected
- coldtea 9y ago>Is it so damn hard to understand that selecting skilled people based on their physiology rather than their abilities, is extremely offensive and demeaning? It's the BS idea that you can fix a root-level problem downstream. Blacks face systematic oppression, poorly funded school districts, median poor households partly resulting from a century of segregation, redlining, less options, legal bias, etc? Fuck that, just force companies to hire more of them. Problem fixed /s
- mbaha 9y agoSeeing comments like yours today on this Bloomberg piece is quite reassuring. I technically count as a "minority" and I have no other way of phrasing this: it is extremely irritating to see companies push for diversity by hiring based on skin colour or gender. Luckily, I live in a country that strongly opposes these kinds of policies, so I get to feel proud of my (very modest) achievements in this field. To see these students and other minorities never being able to experience that feeling makes me quite sad.