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.
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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.
We need MORE FAKE BLACK PEOPLE!!!!
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?
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.
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.
the percentage of white employees dropped from 57 to 55 percent
I’ll bet the percentage of White & Asian tech personal has stayed the same or increased.
We need all of his coders to be Mexican illegals.
Living in Mark Zuckerberg`s backyard.
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?
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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.
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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.
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.
Isn’t asking an employee about sex or race a micro aggression?
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.
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