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I think the kind of diversity initiative you are speaking about is fundamentally different from the one the startup industry is aiming for. Diversity metrics ar
by beaconstudios 8y ago
I think the kind of diversity initiative you are speaking about is fundamentally different from the one the startup industry is aiming for. Diversity metrics are fairly commonplace, as is political homogenisation and suppression of alternative views. This leads me to believe that these companies are not in fact pursuing the kind of diversity (that of ideas/perspectives) that you are championing. They instead seem to be pursuing a kind of demographic equality of outcome where for any % of the populace, that same % should be represented in technology jobs. I find your idea of diversity a lot more defensible than the industry one.
- scarejunba 8y agoThis hasn't been my experience, at least in SF. The so-called political monoculture is heavily reason-driven, inclusive, and expressive. This might mean that people whose views are exclusive are excluded from evangelizing those views. The reasons for those are better expressed by Karl Popper's essays on the tolerance of intolerance. So you can't be against gay marriage or sex before marriage, and be for the suppression of expression. But that's a good thing for the reasons that Karl Popper brings up.
- beaconstudios 8y agothat's not the political monoculture I'm pointing out here. I'm strongly for maximising civil liberties, I support the idea that people should be able to do whatever they want as long as they aren't harming others. The monoculture I am pointing towards is the ideological striving for equality of outcome using affirmative action, condemning of people like James Damore who talk about differences between men and women and how that might affect the demographic underrepresentation of women in tech, that kind of thing. From what I understand there's little room for reasonable debate or discussion of these ideas.