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Facebook diversity numbers barely budge; advocacy groups call for more change
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 06/25/2015 | Queenie Wong

Posted on 06/26/2015 6:14:17 AM PDT by artichokegrower

If diversifying Silicon Valley's workforce is a marathon, then Facebook and other tech firms aren't running fast enough, civil rights activists say.

The social media giant released data Thursday showing slight gains over the past year in increasing the percentage of women and nonwhite employees at the company.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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the percentage of white employees dropped from 57 to 55 percent


It appears that in the opinion of the article's author there was a degree of success here in that some white guys got fired.

1 posted on 06/26/2015 6:14:17 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

We need MORE FAKE BLACK PEOPLE!!!!


2 posted on 06/26/2015 6:15:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: artichokegrower
advocacy groups call for more change

Chicago Bears fans, for example, are ignored every day of the year except 16 of them in the fall.

Can someone PLEASE tell me why so-called advocacy groups i.e. just another collection of like-minded people are entitled to widespread press coverage and instant capitulation to their demands?

3 posted on 06/26/2015 6:18:02 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: artichokegrower

I’ll just identify with being black...so increasing the odds of being hired right? :)

They can cry about this all they want but the lawyers know full well, if they hire based on race they’re setting themselves up for a reverse discrimination lawsuit.

YOU CAN’T HIRE BASED ON RACE.


4 posted on 06/26/2015 6:19:31 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: artichokegrower
Don't these advocacy groups know that business are ‘dancing as fast as they can’ to please them and to avoid lawsuits where Leftist judges will surely side with the advocacy groups??
5 posted on 06/26/2015 6:21:44 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: artichokegrower

Guess they’re about finished with conservative organizations - you’re on deck, Facebook.

Isn’t this Zuckerberg’s pride and joy? I thought he became quite PC in the last year or so. Apparently not enough for the red-meat Marxists.

The real goal is the elimination, or at least marginalization, of the straight white man. The PC crowd doesn’t particularly care if he’s replaced by Martians, really.


6 posted on 06/26/2015 6:24:06 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: artichokegrower

the percentage of white employees dropped from 57 to 55 percent


So....fewer white janitors and cooks then?

I’ll bet the percentage of White & Asian tech personal has stayed the same or increased.


7 posted on 06/26/2015 6:25:08 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: artichokegrower

We need all of his coders to be Mexican illegals.

Living in Mark Zuckerberg`s backyard.


8 posted on 06/26/2015 6:27:06 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: artichokegrower

If I was in charge of these companies, I’d say as soon as you represent sports appropriately then we will follow your lead....ready?


9 posted on 06/26/2015 6:29:02 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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We need all of his coders to be Mexican illegals.

Format? Si!

Oh yeah...

10 posted on 06/26/2015 6:33:12 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: artichokegrower

Don’t worry, traitor Zuckerberg will just bring in ever more H1B worker slaves and force the evil white workers to train them before firing the evil whites who probably have confederate flags on their desks. Problem solved.


11 posted on 06/26/2015 6:39:34 AM PDT by cyberstoic
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To: Smokin' Joe

Format in “C”.

“Si”

No, in “C”.

“Si, Si!”


12 posted on 06/26/2015 6:39:35 AM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: artichokegrower

Of course, there are plenty of Asian “non-white” employees of Facebook and other tech firms. It is PC to say there are too many men or too many whites but not PC to say there are too many Asians.


13 posted on 06/26/2015 6:55:27 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: rbg81
I’ll bet the percentage of White & Asian tech personal has stayed the same or increased.

I believe you are correct. Asians up two percent, 'whites' down two percent. Hispanics and Blacks remain the same. Thus the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Forget this nonsense about judging someone by his character or capabilities -- it is all about the amount of melanin in their skin, or ability to claim membership of a favored group.

14 posted on 06/26/2015 6:57:22 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: fuzzylogic

Isn’t asking an employee about sex or race a micro aggression?


15 posted on 06/26/2015 7:06:15 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: El Cid

Here is the thing: these Tech companies are absolutely not going to hire people who can’t innovate. To embrace diversity at the expense of innovation would quickly result in their demise.

What might happen, is that they will hire a certain number of people with loud titles who have essentially nothing to do with their core business. These people will travel around as mascots .... or spend their daze looking out the window of their plush offices.


16 posted on 06/26/2015 7:25:59 AM PDT by rbg81
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I agree again.
And it is sheer stupidity for a government (and outside agitators) to attempt to force companies to hire anyone but the most qualified and skilled. It is a recipe for extinction. People are different. 'Celebrate' this diversity. NBA teams are not going to be forced to field teams with at least half of their players being white and less than six feet. Companies should not be forced to hire engineers, scientists, and programmers that are not the best in their fields.
17 posted on 06/26/2015 7:45:37 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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