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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, Insightful) by CirclesInSand on Tuesday February 09 2016, @10:45AM
Egalitarian is a word used to mean equal legal requirements and rights.
Social Justice is an ambiguous term, but usually used to mean equal equal social or economic standing.
The two are in contradiction with each other. If you have 10 sports teams of different ability, they can't all have the same expectation of winning unless they are playing under different rules. Egalitarian seeks to equalize the rules at the expense of equal outcomes, social justice (again, ambiguous, but under usual usage) seeks to equalize the outcome at the expense of uniformity of rules.
Proponents of egalitarian standards often believe that attempts to create and implement multiple sets of rules for different economic and social groups is a Pandora's Box that results in either exacerbated economic inequality or misery for everyone involved.
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday February 09 2016, @11:53AM
That's probably the best description of the situation I've heard in the last year.
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