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Its not an uncommon use of "white male". Most of the media describes Asians in tech as white - it is the only way to preserve the narrative.
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
Its not an uncommon use of "white male". Most of the media describes Asians in tech as white - it is the only way to preserve the narrative.
- DanBC 12y ago> Most of the media describes Asians in tech as white Do you have any examples?
- yummyfajitas 12y agoFor example, "Google Admits it Hires Too Many White Dudes" or "Amazon’s Diversity Report Is Another White-Male-Dominated Tech Story". http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/google-admits-it-hires-too-many-white-dudes/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/google-admits-it-hires-too-... http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/03/amazon-diversity-2014/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/03/amazon-diversity-2014/ (Both reports show that Asians are overrepresented, white people represented, and others underrepresented.)
- DanBC 12y agoYou said "Most of the media describes Asians in tech as white - it is the only way to preserve the narrative." Neither of those articles - from a single source - describe Asians as white; Asian is explicitly broken out as a seperate category and described as a minority. "It’s no better on the race front, either, with the highest minority being Asian at 34% in tech and next to non-existent in anything else." Did you miss the fact that Asians are only "overrepresented" in tech, and not in other parts of Google? Amazon doesn't break the job types into tech and non tech. They do Amazon everything and Amazon management. But even that tech crunch report shows that they have seperated out white, Asian, black, hispanic, and other. These are weak examples considering the claim you made.