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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: 1) by Arik on Tuesday February 09 2016, @01:00AM
Fair point.
So let me ask you, Mr Privileged White Male, have you done anything yourself to alleviate this injustice? Have you, perhaps, volunteered to go to the nearest impoverished schools on your own time and teach these young people these tricks of yours? Or, hey, maybe you're a busy man you and you paid someone else to do that?
Cause if you really have done that, or anything like that, you have my admiration and respect.
But if you're just using that as an excuse to advocate for racist and discriminatory policies against people that share your skin tone (including the masses of poor folks that don't have anything like the advantages you claim) instead then my only question is how are you making money off it? Professional diversity consultant maybe?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:21AM
No, I can't give up my privilege, it's one of the key things I've use to maintain the illusion that I'm a normally functioning adult. I'm not some paragon of virtue, I'm just trying to manage the damage here.
I don't believe in the ability of a hiring process to pick a so-called best candidate. I don't even believe in best candidates since intelligence saturates at a certain point, and what people mistake for significantly above average ability is just strategic use of certain types of intelligence. I don't make hiring decisions, although I have influence and I'd rather work with a diverse group and try to build up the people we can bring in rather than pick someone who checks off boxes for a hypothetical idealized candidate.
And yes, that means looking for diversity hires when the combination of several hires and departures have skewed the demographics in a particular direction. On paper, the hiring criteria won't be written that way, but I'll be thinking about it.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.