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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: 5, Insightful) by Vanderhoth on Monday February 08 2016, @09:22PM
And the opal issue isn't even the half of it. That whole mess was manufactured and discusting, but even now the same people are involved in trying to have technically inclined people ousted from their own projects. The same women, Coraline Ada, who created the Contributor's Convenient and has also advocated to have Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby, removed from the "community" management aspect of Ruby [twitter.com]. Also interesting the Kurtis guy who made the original accusation of transphobia [twitter.com] against Elia Schito of Opal, is also involved [twitter.com]. There's a pretty clear group of shit disturbers here who are pushing to use CoC to throw out anyone they personally disagree with. Another one recently has been Randi Harper [reddit.com]
Completely by chance all these people are "anti-GamerGate" eh.
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @09:33PM
Vanderhoth!
Vanderhoth!
Here he comes to save the day!
And he will prove that SJW's must always pay!
So let the trumpet players play
For Vanderhoth is here today!
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday February 08 2016, @10:25PM
This couldn't be modded high enough if it went to 11.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:31PM
> This couldn't be modded high enough if it went to -1.
FTFY