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In a stunning example of failure to understand the meaning of the word equality, Github's "social impact team" is now actively discriminating against people based on gender and skin color; white women in particular:
One insider criticized GitHub's "social impact team," which is in charge of figuring out how to use the product to tackle social issues, including diversity within the company itself. It's led by Nicole Sanchez, vice president of social impact, who joined GitHub in May after working as a diversity consultant.
While people inside the company approve of the goal to hire a more diverse workforce, some think the team is contributing to the internal cultural battle.
"They are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging," this person said.
Sanchez is known for some strong views about diversity. She wrote an article for USA Today shortly before she joined GitHub titled, "More white women does not equal tech diversity."
At one diversity training talk held at a different company and geared toward people of color, she came on a bit stronger with a point that says, "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."
From a site policy standpoint, this really makes me want to argue for finding another host for our rehash repository, enormous pain in the ass though that would be.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday February 08 2016, @07:52PM
Transcribed the pictured PPT slide for your quotation pleasure.
As headline-inducing as #1 and #6 may be, I think #2 is the most interesting point on this list.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @08:30PM
The only reason #1 or #6 is controversial is because the slide is read without context.
#1 means non-whites can be allies, but they can't be depended on to lead.
Seems like the people most likely to be outraged by #1 are also the ones most likely to say that occupy protestors shouldn't use any technology from big corps like iphones and facebook to make their anti-corporate protests more effective.
#6 is well known - mainstream feminism in the US has a history of ignoring non-white women, just google "white feminism" for a bazillion interpretations of the issue
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Monday February 08 2016, @08:46PM
Not.
Look the reason people are outraged is because that's blatant racism, and outside of the SJWs and the Stormfags, the rest of us have left that behind and find it offensive. No matter who practices it and no matter whom they focus it on.
Can you imagine the howls of disapproval, the bitter denunciations, the diatribes and the hashtags and so on if someone were to write that 'non-whites can be allies but cannot be allowed to lead?' It's one of those few cases where you don't even feel the need to understand the context before condemning it. Decent people simply don't think like that. This is the 21st century and we expect people to be judged by their ideas, their abilities, and their accomplishments - not the colour of their skin.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @08:56PM
> Look the reason people are outraged is because that's blatant racism,
It is blatant racism to say that non-white people can't leave it to whites to make sure that non-whites get a fair chance at employment?
Really? Permanent aggrievement must have rotted your brain.
You have ONE out here. One chance to save face. Admit you misread #1 and thought it meant "all work" rather than the work of implementing equal opportunity.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 08 2016, @10:25PM
The 'work' they are talking about is creating a fair hiring process, an even playing field for all applicants where they can be judged solely on their own individual merits, and not by the colour of their skin or their political beliefs or anything else not actually related to doing their job. That's exactly what HR is supposed to do, in each and every company on earth! So what they are really saying is that a white person can never be qualified to lead HR. And that's just racist nonsense, that's flat out wrong.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:29PM
> So what they are really saying is that a white person can never be qualified to lead HR.
Wow you made up a whacked out story there. Going from leading diversity initiatives to be being head of HR.
I guess your brain really is just rotted.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 08 2016, @08:37PM
"(6) Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."
Yeah, you know what, she isn't exactly wrong here.
Now I am not saying to be sloppy and smear ALL white women with this, not at all. Individuals need to be judged individually, relying on these generalizations and classism is a big part of the SJW malfunction, but taken on its own terms this statement is actually pretty true, and she's brave to make it.
Every 'inclusion' event I have seen has been dominated by well-off white women who are the utter picture of privilege whining and harping endlessly about how disadvantaged they are, and frankly they seem to have extraordinarily low levels of empathy and self-awareness. I can't imagine them actually doing anything positive for workplace diversity.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @09:40PM
And I'm not saying all black people stole my bike.
If you gotta qualify a statement with something like that, you fucked up somewhere in your argument.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 08 2016, @10:04PM
I can agree there's some truth to the observation without it even occuring to me to jump from there to "don't interview any more whites" but apparently a lot of people today don't think that way.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:22PM
> apparently a lot of people today don't think that way.
Well Buzzard does. And it sure seems like you do too since your posts are so credulous.
As the saying goes - we fear most that others are like ourselves.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @10:49PM
Shit: Solid excrement. Comes out of your anus. 💩
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Thought I'd clear that up since you obviously didn't know one from the other.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @11:56PM
How long you gonna keep trying to polish that turd?
(Score: 1) by guizzy on Monday February 08 2016, @09:59PM
The funniest part of it is #4.
I would disagree that any special solidarity is necessary for whatever race; as I believe color-blindness is the ideal we should strive for, but if someone who believes that color-blindness is not enough and some "adjustments" have to be made, ASIANS ARE THE LAST PEOPLE WHO NEED IT IN TECH.
They are already VASTLY over-represented compared to their presence in the general population.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:25PM
Is it possible that you misunderstood #4?
Or is it just axiomatic that SJWs are always wrong?