Twitter's only black engineer in leadership quits

Really? Less than 5% of staff are non-white and you're arguing he needs to explain what "diversity" is?

Come on. At under 5% basically ANYTHING ELSE is diversity.

Also, he does touch on this in the article. He says that Twitter relies heavily on a few schools for hiring so even if they get 'diverse' candidates from those schools they've still had a very similar experience compared to people from geographically diverse schools. That alone would add one form of diversity. He said he's seen this resulting in group think, and I can believe that.

But really? You want people to define diversity in this situation? That seems like a 'no true scotsman' setup to me.

You honestly think it's "worth questioning how a black person would think differently"?

Different experiences yield different points of view yield different ideas

In point of fact, an African-American guy and a white guy from the same neighborhood and school will have had different experiences growing up. For example, the white guy probably never had the cops called on him for wandering down a dark street wearing a hoodie. He probably also got more job interviews, if his name sounds white and his friend's doesn't. These experiences will have shaped the two men differently.

That doesn't mean they'll give different answers to a question on how to traverse a linked list. But they'll give different answers on how to build a content moderation feature, how to prevent abuse, how to protect freedom of expression on the platform.

> what "diversity" he is looking for at Twitter.

Because being explicit about how he wants race quotas might make him look racist, which would make it harder for him to use accusations of racism as a tool.

The quest for "diversity" essentially is an implicit accusation of racism. It basically says "we're not as racially diverse as we would naturally be if racism wasnt rigging the race game".

His goal is to take jobs from whites just because they are white and give them to blacks just because they are black, i.e. explicit racism. The twisted logic is basically that you have to fight racism with racism, but that racism-the-cure isnt really racism, and that only racism-the-cause is "true racism". It essentially boils down to the claims that only white people can be racists, that whites are inherently racists, and that any statistical imbalance in the percentage of blacks in a certain organisation and the percentage of blacks in the overall population is a product of white racism.

(I accidentally down voted you, sorry).

The fact that Twitter enables diversity doesn't mean that they have or understand diversity. It may be that they simply haven't accidentally stepped on it.

If they don't know why what they're doing is working then they can't successfully improve it further, or avoid squashing it unintentionally and irreparably.

Honestly your comment reads very racist to me. "why do we need a non-Asian engineer?", "suppose I'm wrong, and black people actually do think differently. [if twitter is doing good] why do we think that "different" is actually better or even useful?"

So Twitter is doing great, and you've basically reduced it to either 'race/perspective never matters' or 'non white/asians are inferior'. I'm sure you'll say it's the former.

Wow.

(Now that I've re-read your comment, I'm happy with my down vote).