>Emerging in its place is the mostly white, male-dominated, monied monoculture of the tech industry and there appears no end in sight. It's weird to flinch at

>Emerging in its place is the mostly white, male-dominated, monied monoculture of the tech industry and there appears no end in sight. It's weird to flinch at reading this. What am I, a racist? But this sentence just isn't true for me. I mean, sure, as the demographic majority there are a lot of white people in tech, but my experience just hasn't been "mostly white". At some meetings I've been the only white guy in the room: how much more diverse do we need to get, exactly? What is the case where I work is that white people are far more likely to live in San Francisco, whereas the nonwhite immigrants seem to be a little more responsible and live in places like Fremont, Dublin, and Sunnyvale, and tolerate 90 minute commutes to do so. Which is not an aspect of the tech boom that a publication like The Guardian would ever emphasize, because a story about entrenched old hipsters making life difficult for people from Bombay who worked themselves to the bone just to get into the country -- that just doesn't fit the prevailing narrative -- nor does the fact that they're doing so to preserve a culture famous mostly for its reputation among America's majority demographic. I mean, I'm not gonna deny that being white gives some tech workers (like me) an unfair advantage in life, which also happens to be true in roughly every single other American industry, but I've been exasperated by this enough to point out that the people opposing expansion are generally shortsighted hypocrites -- bring on the evictions, so that the nonwhites who comprise 75% of my scrum team can live in the city where they work, maybe. And I'd like to apologize apostrophically for stealing my coworkers' right to represent themselves.