Apple’s diversity chief out after outcry

I'm a white guy. I'm a software engineer. I'm totally cool with hiring people who aren't white guys (assuming they can do the job.) It seems that Denise Young Smith understands that, but there's a weird fringe of the extreme left that only sees headcounts by color and gender, and only sees me as "a white guy", and only sees others as "an ", and it's sad that a black woman got fired for being reasonable instead of having a specific and idiotic political agenda.

>Denise Young Smith, who was named vice president of diversity and inclusion in May, made controversial comments last month during a One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.

>“There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

>“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

>Her comments appeared to defend Apple’s overwhelmingly white and male leadership at a time when the company’s makeup is markedly uneven.

Wow what a shit show, even if she believes this nuanced, thoughtful view of diversity, she should have realized that she was hired for one reason only: racial extortion. Now apple can go out and hire the shakedown artist they deserve.

More on her comments: https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...

>Denise Young Smith, who was named vice president of diversity and inclusion in May, made controversial comments last month during a One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.

>“There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

>“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

>Her comments appeared to defend Apple’s overwhelmingly white and male leadership at a time when the company’s makeup is markedly uneven.

Wow what a shit show, even if she believes this nuanced, thoughtful view of diversity, she should have realized that she was hired for one reason only: racial extortion. Now apple can go out and hire the shakedown artist they deserve.

The entire "diversity" push is artificial and wrong.

I've worked for places that said, "We need to hire x number of women, blacks, and homosexuals." Most people in the meetings were like "yeah, whatever..."

Every time I've worked for some douche bag management team that pulled something like this, it went pear shaped. Hiring people because they are women, black, or homosexual does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to bring in talent. IT is, by nature, a meritocracy. I don't want to work for anyone or any place that does not exist as a meritocracy. People should be judged by the value of their contributions, not by any other criteria.

Before anyone gets started, even if a potential candidate was perfect and was a woman, black (or other), or homosexual compared to a typical American/Canadian IT worker (white male or Asian male/female), I would hire the best fit for the culture at hand. Most IT shops are politically incorrect lairs of gaming lore, cursing, off-colour humour and odd banter, and it needs to stay this way. I dislike forced political correctness and so do most IT people.