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The Lost Generation
- deepbreadths 10mo agoVery interested in having my friends of different race/gender read this and give me there take. I found it very interesting as I'm not in a "culture industry" and have not seen as much of the anti-white sentiment described in the article.
- anonym29 10mo agoThis is true in "big tech", too - think FANGMAN. I saw more than one summer of 30+ summer intern cohorts that were less than 1/3 male, with a total of <=2 white guys. Diversity reports bragging that women were paid >100.0% as men, across the company, that people of color were paid >100.0% as white people, across the company. Hiring practices that would result in candidate sets on interview loops that were 75%+ women, 50%+ people of color, etc. I'm not offering any criticism of the practice, and I don't know anyone who would say some composition re-balancing wasn't long overdue. Just clarifying that this is absolutely a systemic practice in big tech, not just media / academia / hollywood / "culture industry".
- deepbreadths 10mo agosort of agree. Maybe its because im in a more niche engineering field, but i have worked closely with lets say ~25 engineers. 0 have been women. I keep this stat running in my head as its quite absurd, but its been my experience. A majority are non-white though.
- anonym29 10mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301721 these threads appear to be getting systemically down-voted