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Funny. Have you read CRT? At least you must have read numerous criticisms on that the representations of employees, leadership, or students in colleges do not r

Funny. Have you read CRT? At least you must have read numerous criticisms on that the representations of employees, leadership, or students in colleges do not reflect our population? Given that Google is not going to grow its headcount any time soon, how could you possibly achieve racial equity? Please, to battle racisms, we also need to use logic and reasoning.

epistasis 6y ago
> Given that Google is not going to grow its headcount any time soon, how could you possibly achieve racial equity? Most of your comment doesn't make sense to me, but for this one at least, I can point out your mistake. Even if Google is maintaining a mostly constant head count, people change jobs all the time, and to account for this Google is continuously hiring. This is part of the process, where tech companies have already focused on fixing problems. The other part of the problem is that tech companies can be quite hostile to underrepresented minorities, and the comments on this post are a perfect example, especially all the trolling dead comments. In real life, URM experience those comments and they don't get deleted from their memories. So making the work environment less hostile is essential to, in addition to the hiring practices.
- hintymad 6y ago
  You got me. It makes sense.
MikeUt 6y ago
You're right, colleges don't reflect our population. Compare for example Harvard to the overall US (degree of overrepresentation in parenthesis): Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.15% (6.51x) Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x) Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x) Native American: 1.8% vs 0.7% (2.57x) African American: 14.3% vs 12.7% (1.13x) Latino: 12.2% vs 17.6% (0.69x) White: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x) Or Princeton: Asian: 20.9% vs 5.3% (3.94x) Jewish: 8.0% vs 2.15% (3.72x) Black: 7.7% vs 12.7% (0.61x) White: 34.7% vs 59.4% (0.58x) Latino: 9.5% vs 17.6% (0.54x) Sources: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduates/ https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat... https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifestyle/ https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifesty... https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-university https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-unive... https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university/student-life/diversity/#secEthnic https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university...

epistasis 6y ago

> Given that Google is not going to grow its headcount any time soon, how could you possibly achieve racial equity? Most of your comment doesn't make sense to me, but for this one at least, I can point out your mistake. Even if Google is maintaining a mostly constant head count, people change jobs all the time, and to account for this Google is continuously hiring. This is part of the process, where tech companies have already focused on fixing problems. The other part of the problem is that tech companies can be quite hostile to underrepresented minorities, and the comments on this post are a perfect example, especially all the trolling dead comments. In real life, URM experience those comments and they don't get deleted from their memories. So making the work environment less hostile is essential to, in addition to the hiring practices.

hintymad 6y ago
You got me. It makes sense.

MikeUt 6y ago

You're right, colleges don't reflect our population. Compare for example Harvard to the overall US (degree of overrepresentation in parenthesis): Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.15% (6.51x) Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x) Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x) Native American: 1.8% vs 0.7% (2.57x) African American: 14.3% vs 12.7% (1.13x) Latino: 12.2% vs 17.6% (0.69x) White: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x) Or Princeton: Asian: 20.9% vs 5.3% (3.94x) Jewish: 8.0% vs 2.15% (3.72x) Black: 7.7% vs 12.7% (0.61x) White: 34.7% vs 59.4% (0.58x) Latino: 9.5% vs 17.6% (0.54x) Sources: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduates/ https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat... https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifestyle/ https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifesty... https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-university https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/princeton-unive... https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university/student-life/diversity/#secEthnic https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/princeton-university...