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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: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 08 2016, @10:21PM
...where I'm about ready to give up the label "feminist" and the term "social justice." This is ridiculous. Real feminism means fighting against gendered violence NO MATTER WHO THE TARGET IS, and recognizing that in a huge number of cases the target is also a boy or a man, whether cis or trans. These people are feminists the way Westboro Baptist are Christians: technically still in the movement, but twisted and hateful and harming the cause worse than almost any of their opponents.
It's like we had so many idiots harping on about "reverse racism" that they summoned some kind of crowdsourced tulpa and made it real :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:28PM
It's always been real.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @11:27PM
Labels are dangerous and will be used against you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @01:14AM
It's like we had so many idiots harping on about "reverse racism" that they summoned some kind of crowdsourced tulpa and made it real :/
That would be like seeing a UFO and thinking. "Man, it's like all those drunk rednecks some how summoned UFOs."
Maybe it was there but you never saw it.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday February 09 2016, @03:28AM
Its funny you mention religion, because this is not a new tactic. Religions have used it. Governments have and is still using it in a sense (using the excuse of terrorism or think of the babies to harm the liberty and freedom of their very own citizens and violate the human rights of other nation's). Its only natural to start to see it adopted in other areas like private organization/corporate politics. It is a very effective strategy if you can pick topics of interest that lends itself to very polarizing emotions among the crowd. Then all you have to do is manipulate that into your personal agenda. Most People tend to not voice out even if they smell something fishy for the fear of being associated and caught up on one side or the other.