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ha that's a hoot. What a horrible injustice for an HR team to try and bring some diversity to a company that mostly hired white males. If white males weren't so busy looking for drinking buddies under the guise of a "culture fit" for the last 2 decades this wouldn't be a thing. Diversity stats for our industry are a boondoggle, most of the diversity is concentrated in a few large companies, and it takes the bare mini…
> What a horrible injustice for an HR team to try and bring some diversity to a company that mostly hired white males. White people are under represented at tech companies in USA. Only Asians are over represented. The only reason to discriminate against white people there is that you hate white people. White people are less under represented than black people, true, but white people are still under represented.
> Compared to overall private industry, the high tech sector employed a larger share of whites (63.5 percent to 68.5 percent), Asian Americans (5.8 percent to 14 percent) and men (52 percent to 64 percent), and a smaller share of African Americans (14.4 percent to 7.4 percent), Hispanics (13.9 percent to 8 percent), and women (48 percent to 36 percent).
But I'll play ball, I'm sure you can show me a stat that says white people are underrepresented by a tiny amount by changing the scope, maybe by considering worse paying jobs where white people are definitely underrepresented!
That will totally make your point... right? White people are not getting enough of the worst jobs, only the best ones! Kind of why I said industry wide stats are useless though.
Of course, also link it so I can show how that same source probably shows blacks and hispanics as being even more underrepresented than mine and I can laugh in your face for acting like white people are "underrepresented" in tech because there's like a 90% correlation to population size instead of 100%.
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But actually I mean let's roll with your lie for a second!
Do you think, just maybe, white people are less likely to be under represented at the companies that are working hardest to hire non-white-males?
Like a company is all-hands-on-deck trying to get some marginalized people working there, that's because...??? Like who... who do you think is currently making up most of the org?
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Again... broad industry stats about diversity are utter bullshit.
Don't take my word for it, apply some critical thinking.
Do you think white males are underrepresented more or less as you climb the ladder?
https://www.thisdot.co/blog/diversity-statistics-in-tech-a-d...
You can look at that first diagram and you tell me that white males are being discriminated against?
Like, how out if touch with reality are you?
We're in an industry where the only reason there's any underrepresentation of whites is because companies were stuffing minorities into the worst paying roles and bringing over H1B1s to underpay them whenever they can.
The moment HR tries to change the status quo the white males start crying racism. Cry on brother.