"Twitter attempted to have a conversation about race and the tech industry yesterday. The loudest voices? White men on either side of the argument shouting eac

"Twitter attempted to have a conversation about race and the tech industry yesterday. The loudest voices? White men on either side of the argument shouting each other down." The end of this para links to Buzzfeed, which adds nothing except a lot of crap advertising to this Storify: http://storify.com/mattbuchanan/how-to-not-be-racist http://storify.com/mattbuchanan/how-to-not-be-racist Actually I'm not convinced that Jason Calcanis is as wrong as he looks in the linked story. He's kinda right that if you want to be a top tech writer, you can probably get there by starting your own blog, building a following, and then being rewarded with a column on <insert major tech site here>. And this process will probably work just as well for a person of any given ethnicity. The real problem isn't that awesome ethnic minority tech writers can't succeed, it's that there's an awful lot of mediocre white male tech writers, and relatively few mediocre black/female ones. This is presumably because a lot of tech writers aren't really judged on their merits; their editors need to employ some people to write about technology, and they're making 'safe' choices by going for the white guy who fits the pattern of 'tech person'.