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There are absolutely people out there simply playing the diversity card to get attention. If you are pro-diversity, this shouldn't be something you want to deny
by jerf 6y ago
There are absolutely people out there simply playing the diversity card to get attention. If you are pro-diversity, this shouldn't be something you want to deny exists, it should be something you want to prevent from happening, because it dilutes your interests.
It has nothing to do with the merits of diversity, it has to do with the fact that anything valued by society will have the signal forged by hucksters. Literally anything.
- watwut 6y agoDiversity speakers are by far not the only ones who "oversell their own skills". Nor are they they worst oversellers I have seen. And by that I mean that overselling own skills is incredibly frequent in this field and basically requirement in a lot of sub-cultures. It is just so incredibly common to read two tutorials and then claim yourself expert. It is not like consultants trading in impressions were rare or great expert developer comming in just for us to find we know more or something like that was rare. But typically, they dont use beginner card nor diversity card, they are guys who do their best to conform to every stereotype of great programmer who play "I am expert" card.
- beckingz 6y agoI had a friend who worked for a big consulting company and they told him to become an expert in a topic. So he googled for 6 weeks and became an "expert".