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> What "historic wrongs" are keeping women or minorities out of the technology field? Honestly curious. Hundreds of years of systemic and societal oppression.
by sj3k 8y ago
> What "historic wrongs" are keeping women or minorities out of the technology field? Honestly curious.
Hundreds of years of systemic and societal oppression. Really how do people not get this?
- yourbandsucks 8y agoI think people are unconvinced that applying affirmative action to tech hiring addresses or chips away at that much broader problem. Especially when they're not the ones oppressing anyone. And double-especially if we're hiring people who are unqualified and uninterested in tech just to pad the diversity stats. I'm here to do stuff. I care about broader social issues too, but I go to work to code. Not trying to strawman or misrepresent you -- just saying that the connection from tech hiring to things that happened before the invention of the transistor isn't necessarily self-evident to everyone.
- emodendroket 8y agoWell, the implications are unpleasant for a lot of us
- djschnei 8y agoI asked a very specific question... your progressive buzzwords aren't answers.