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>Remember how Google+ had significant uptake in the rich white tech dude demographic? Not a coincidence. Other people have already said it, but what about Face
by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>Remember how Google+ had significant uptake in the rich white tech dude demographic? Not a coincidence.
Other people have already said it, but what about Facebook or Twitter?
>If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population, and if you disagree with that, you either believe there is something inherent about certain groups that makes them better or worse at these jobs, which is plainly bigoted, or you believe that there are external social biases which cause the discrepancies.
That is a false dichotomy. If diversity is in itself good, then that implies that there are significant differences between ethnicities [1]. And in that case, it is certainly possible that different ethnicity might be better or worse at particular tasks, in this case coding. And claiming that the view that such differences is inherent, is bigoted, is just name-calling.
[1] Feel free to substitute ethnicity with X, where X satisfies "diversity means having people of different X".