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Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor from The Office) is a famous diversity hire. It's not a theory; their show used a diversity hiring program through NBC, where if you

Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor from The Office) is a famous diversity hire. It's not a theory; their show used a diversity hiring program through NBC, where if you hire a white person, it comes out of your show's budget; but if you hire a minority member, then NBC pays for their salary. So The Office had her on the writing staff basically for free. The catch was the program only paid for one year, so she knew from the first day that she had exactly one year to prove that she was worth the same salary as the other staff. Obviously she did, and was quickly elevated to on-screen talent, and her star just kept climbing. But knowing she was a diversity hire made her try harder; that sort of thing can be very motivating to a certain type of person.

908B64B197 5y ago
It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse". There has been this trend of diversity reporting to list Whites and Asians together in stats. Google has been notorious for this [0] and others are following the trend when it seems convenient [1]. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ex-recruiter-accuses-google-hiring-discrimination-against-white-asian-men-n853601 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ex-recruiter-accu... [1] https://nextshark.com/students-of-color-washington-asians-with-whites/ https://nextshark.com/students-of-color-washington-asians-wi...
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse". Asians are current and historic targets of discrimination. This sometimes gets masked in outcome stats because lots of Asians in the US are themselves or first generation descendants of immigrants through programs which filter for the top end of the socioeconomic, and more particularly recently technical skills, spectrum.
tomcam 5y ago
> basically for free Well they got a bargain. She's immensely talented. She hates my politics but damn can she write. Her first memoir is one of the funniest things I've ever read
- sumedh 5y ago
  > She hates my politics What does that mean?
sumedh 5y ago
> Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor from The Office) is a famous diversity hire. Ironically, Mindy's brother pretended to be a black man to get into Med school.

908B64B197 5y ago

It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse". There has been this trend of diversity reporting to list Whites and Asians together in stats. Google has been notorious for this [0] and others are following the trend when it seems convenient [1]. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ex-recruiter-accuses-google-hiring-discrimination-against-white-asian-men-n853601 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ex-recruiter-accu... [1] https://nextshark.com/students-of-color-washington-asians-with-whites/ https://nextshark.com/students-of-color-washington-asians-wi...

dragonwriter 5y ago
> It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse". Asians are current and historic targets of discrimination. This sometimes gets masked in outcome stats because lots of Asians in the US are themselves or first generation descendants of immigrants through programs which filter for the top end of the socioeconomic, and more particularly recently technical skills, spectrum.

tomcam 5y ago

> basically for free Well they got a bargain. She's immensely talented. She hates my politics but damn can she write. Her first memoir is one of the funniest things I've ever read

sumedh 5y ago
> She hates my politics What does that mean?

sumedh 5y ago

> Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor from The Office) is a famous diversity hire. Ironically, Mindy's brother pretended to be a black man to get into Med school.