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Far more than 3% of my white tech colleagues have been Jewish, despite making up only 3% of the US and California populations. Would you claim this implies a pr

Far more than 3% of my white tech colleagues have been Jewish, despite making up only 3% of the US and California populations. Would you claim this implies a pro-Jewish, anti-Gentile tech hiring bias? I would disagree with you, and suggest that your kind of logic leads to very dark places.

asdff 6y ago
I would argue that Jewish people are overrepresented in higher education than other groups and generally occupy a higher class level than more recent immigrants or groups under systemic oppression by the legal system in recent decades. Most Jewish families at this point have been in this country for several generations now building roots for their families, just like the Italians and Irish at this point who also came to NYC ~a century ago. They haven't been the whipping boy at the bottom of the economic totem in a long time. These days, that unfavorable position is occupied by more recently migrated groups. I mean the rhetoric from the outgoing president alone about central American immigrants was truly abhorrent and dehumanized them in the eyes of his supporters. However, that still doesn't explain why in the CompSci major at UC berkely, only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). 1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-california-berkeley/academic-life/academic-majors/computer-information-sciences/computer-science/index.html#diversity https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo... 2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/ https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...
- neartheplain 6y ago
  That is interesting. I didn't know that whites, who make up 73% of the US population, were so underrepresented not only in Silicon Valley but also at UC Berkeley.

asdff 6y ago

I would argue that Jewish people are overrepresented in higher education than other groups and generally occupy a higher class level than more recent immigrants or groups under systemic oppression by the legal system in recent decades. Most Jewish families at this point have been in this country for several generations now building roots for their families, just like the Italians and Irish at this point who also came to NYC ~a century ago. They haven't been the whipping boy at the bottom of the economic totem in a long time. These days, that unfavorable position is occupied by more recently migrated groups. I mean the rhetoric from the outgoing president alone about central American immigrants was truly abhorrent and dehumanized them in the eyes of his supporters. However, that still doesn't explain why in the CompSci major at UC berkely, only 16% were white (1). Yet when you look at the makeup of some of the FANGs in the bay area, most are ~50% white or more (2). 1. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-california-berkeley/academic-life/academic-majors/computer-information-sciences/computer-science/index.html#diversity https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo... 2. https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/ https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-report...

neartheplain 6y ago
That is interesting. I didn't know that whites, who make up 73% of the US population, were so underrepresented not only in Silicon Valley but also at UC Berkeley.