Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity

Quartz | April 19, 2019 | Dave Gershgorn

[zeestephen]

Re: ...that probably starts with hiring more white or NORTHEAST Asian males...

Good point.

Personally, I would camouflage the CASE R&D effort as corporate funded start-ups, each one with fewer than 25 employees, which usually gets you off the hook for discrimination lawsuits.

[Albion Wilde]

DC, Detroit, etc were all successful black communities

But those particular black communities were not the overall economic driver of those regions. Detroit was the auto industry invented by and implemented by whites, and DC needs no explanation. Same with Harlem.

Those black communities were thriving socially and with local businesses; but no one can force a nationalized or international industry to stay put forever in a given location, nor prevent the incursion of a newly powerful force into a region. When the helpful Democrat party sent all industry overseas, the auto industry abandoned Detroit and both blacks and whites got screwed. When the DC government expanded obscenely, blacks' housing got gentrified and middle-class blacks could no longer afford homes or business sites in DC. And so forth.

Economically successful blacks like Herman Cain, Robert L. Johnson and even Tyra Banks have stepped out of the "black community" comfort zone and made viable products and services for all types of people.

[dayglored]

Microsoft staff question diversity ... PING!

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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!

[Engedi]

Yes, Rosewood too. Watched that movie, it was incredible miscarriage of humanity.