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Racism and sexism is a constant complaint against the tech industry. But unless someone is actually compiling data on it, no one knows how bad the problem actua
by freehunter 6y ago
Racism and sexism is a constant complaint against the tech industry. But unless someone is actually compiling data on it, no one knows how bad the problem actually is (or if it’s actually even a real problem).
Problems don’t get solved unless they’re being tracked.
- pdimitar 6y agoSo what problem is being tracked by showing this statistic, exactly?
- freehunter 6y agoCome on man, it was the first sentence of my comment.
- pdimitar 6y agoYour first sentence was a generalisation. I still don't see how reasserting that somebody is white helps... anything related to the problems of racism and sexism, really. Help me here?
- freehunter 6y agoI'm having a hard time assuming good faith based on your comments so I'm going to bow out of this conversation. I'd suggest you take some time to stop and think about why someone might want to track demographic statistics in a field that is constantly under fire for being dominated by young white men.
- pdimitar 6y agoI'm also having a hard time assuming a good faith from you even though in my eyes I asked a fair question and you choose to leave instead. You come across like you have an agenda. What is it? I'm also not seeing what "under fire" means. The IT area has dozens of millions of people employed. If it was truly under fire then I'd assume it would shrink in numbers, at least in terms of representation of white men? But I'm not seeing it happening. If you have links proving otherwise I'd be interested to read them.
- Izkata 6y agoI don't understand why this has been downvoted so much. The question was based on a statistic on users of an English-language website, not even remotely related to discrimination, so why is it being used as an accurate description of discrimination? For that matter, why is one race being more active than another evidence of discrimination at all?