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Isn't mental instability positively correlated with antisocial, disruptive behavior? I'd imagine that they want well behaved protesters.

The segregation happens on more than just class lines. People segregate based on culture and values. Despite there being many poor, segregated communities in the USA, crime is perp…

Apparently not in tech though. All the recent sexual harassment accusers are employed

It doesn't. He just wanted to argue about minimum wage lol

I think that there is a decent case that upper class men do enjoy gender based privileges. But then people use that as evidence that all males are privileged and it's just not true…

> The kicker? Wealth killed opportunities for women. Yeah because lower class women do much better compared to lower class men. The study is flawed. It used male hobbies for both m…

I disagree that gender and race disparities in tech is even a problem. The majority of careers have gender and race disparities. It is normal. There needs to be good reasoning for …

No, the leftist position would be writing a well thought out and mild toned argument that the company has pro white male bias in interviewing (which implies that the hiring bar is …

> There is systemic discrimination in favour of white men in software engineering Asian/Indian males and females who can barely speak english says otherwise. You can't just drop th…

Does there even need to be a reason why there is a gender/race disparity in tech? This is not a blip in the radar. It is commonplace for careers to have gender/race disparities. Th…

The majority(>60%) of engineering in big tech companies who are most affected by these diversity initiatives are either foreign born or have parents who are foreign born.

> Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach What if all you are achieving is rearranging the dirt (ignore the negative connotations to dirt)? Skill…

> The whole reason diversity practices exist is because "some classes of people" are already being harmed. Without "diversity practices", we already have practices that emphasize a…

> Because gender discrimination is rife Please stop making these unqualified statements on very touchy subjects

Maybe I'm reading too much into your post but I sense some anger or indignance. If that's true it is misplaced. Understand that if he phrased it any other way, he would have been f…

> due to systemic discrimination in hiring. It's ridiculous how many times I see this dropped out of nowhere in this thread without any sources or proof. This is a very contentious…

> It's (in almost all cases), very small variations of tangential achievements, most of which can be outweighed with a minority group bringing a different group of life experiences…

Perception vs. reality The general perception is that programming is a socially isolating, boring, monotonous job where you stare at a screen all day. People making career choices …

It would be great if you could point to documents proving all your assumptions on bias. People have been so vehement about their beliefs. But there has never been a succint summari…

> A company and employees really shouldn't get political if at all possible, to prevent a divided customer base. The company and its employees have very publicly political. This is…

Do a large amount of moderate leftists actually think a PhD in Women studies is "legit"? Genuine question

The devil's advocate says that there are many opinions that you would disagree should be fireable.