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The argument for diversity as a good investment: 1. With high-income whites some dumb blokes may sneak in due to privilege and winging it based on family conne
by shas3 9y ago
The argument for diversity as a good investment:
1. With high-income whites some dumb blokes may sneak in due to privilege and winging it based on family connections, etc. This might be happening at the expense of spunky smart low income whites or blacks who worked harder and were smarter to overcome their disadvantage to get to a point where they’re in the pool of those being considered for admission into Stanford.
2. Diversity hires bring fresh perspectives and help break group-think. In my experience, all-white, all-Indian, all-Asian, etc. teams were always inferior in terms of the experience of working there to diverse teams.
- plandis 9y agoYeah but gender and race diversity (the qualifications mentioned in the article) still discriminate against poor white males. I am fairly certain that a poor white guy would have a very different perspective from one who grew up in a life of privilege but that socioeconomic diversity doesn’t look as good I guess.
- mcguire 9y agoNo one is suggesting they should only have diversity related scholarships.
- ZeroGravitas 9y ago> Yeah but gender and race diversity (the qualifications mentioned in the article) still discriminate against poor white males. Am I the only one to notice that HN goes full communist when, and only when, affirmative action for minorities and women is the topic. Those poor white men don't really get mentioned much otherwise.
- watwut 9y agoI observed the same. When women and blacks are topic, white poor men are consideration and victim or huge unfairness. Any other time, they are suckers, lazy, should have learn coding, don't have merit, yadda yadda. Kinda like gentrification is good thing and people pushed away got what they deserve and no one is entitled to live there. Untill it is tech workers who can't afford live in SV and suddenly it is all about egoism and YIMBY etc.
- whatshisface 9y ago> In my experience, all-white, all-Indian, all-Asian, etc. teams were always inferior in terms of the experience of working there to diverse teams. I feel like I'm missing some kind of obvious universal common-sense knowledge in having to ask this, but by what mechanism could this possibly come about?
- sincerely 9y agofor example if everyone on a team is from the same background, the working culture will be heavily influenced by that, which can make it harder for people from other backgrounds or cultures to join or fit in