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Tech and Diversity of Though
Townhall.com ^ | January 12, 2020 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 01/12/2020 3:38:11 AM PST by Kaslin

WASHINGTON -- When the Consumer Technology Association announced that Ivanka Trump, elder daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump, would be a keynote speaker at CES 2020, some of the very people who had been pushing for more female speakers, and more diversity in general, at the country's premier tech confab actually protested.

Some, such as Forbes' Carolina Milanesi, argued that Trump was a bad choice because she lacked tech credentials. "There are many more women who are in tech and are entrepreneurs who could run circles around Trump on how technology will impact the future of work," Milanesi wrote.

On social media others were more honest: They maintained that the first daughter shouldn't have a place on the stage because, well, she is a Trump -- and a distaff Trump, which made for some rather crude and misogynistic nicknames typed by anonymous scolds.

Yes, as critics point out, Ivanka Trump would not be on the stage if she were not the president's daughter. Her job exists because of nepotism.

But: Ivanka Trump works without cashing a paycheck. (I'll bet former veep Joe Biden wishes he could say the same about his son Hunter's tenure at Ukrainian energy company Burisma.)

And rather than designing a portfolio that starts with accessories or branding -- where she cut her teeth in the private sector -- Ivanka Trump has waded into some of the least glamorous corners of government policy and often appears at events with the most soporific member of the Trump cabinet, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

On the stage Tuesday with Gary Shapiro, the head of the CTA, which puts on the Las Vegas convention, Trump did not talk like the airhead fashionista her detractors see.

To the contrary, the 38-year-old talked about her lack of sympathy for employers who lay off workers and then complain that they don't have enough skilled workers. They should have taken the time to "reskill" those workers, she argued. She also advocated for employment opportunities for former prisoner inmates and the need to not over-peddle four-year college as the ticket to career success.

Her workforce portfolio also puts Trump shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff -- to whom she gave a shout-out Tuesday -- and Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose firms have signed the White House Pledge to American Workers. Not a bad look for the Trump re-election campaign, even if this conservative misses the days when the right derided "crony capitalism."

There's another 2020 angle here. POTUS frequently says that he is a man of America's "forgotten" workers -- and there's his raised-in-Manhattan daughter championing those who don't have college educations.

I think it drives Trump haters crazy that Ivanka has embraced the lunchbox workforce and the wonky jargon that surrounds training issues, rather than voguing like the Barbie doll wannabe they want her to be.

That's why they didn't want her to speak at CES 2020. They didn't want other people to see it.

This talk about Ivanka Trump lacking credentials -- it's cheap perfume to hide the stench of left-wing intolerance in the tech industry. Just ask Brendan Eich, the one-time Mozilla CEO who was forced to resign in 2014 after it was learned that he had donated $1,000 to a 2008 California ballot measure to limit marriage to one man and one woman. Californians voted for the measure, by the way. But six years later the tech world found Eich's past opposition to same-sex marriage a corporate capital offense.

The tech world makes a lot of noise about promoting diversity, but it doesn't apply to diversity of thought.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: ces; diversity; ivankatrump; though
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1 posted on 01/12/2020 3:38:11 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Thought, though, is also thought to be the correct word.
Though.


2 posted on 01/12/2020 3:49:32 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know there was a diversity of though. Though I could be rong.


3 posted on 01/12/2020 3:50:06 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

Down to a T.


4 posted on 01/12/2020 3:55:31 AM PST by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: humblegunner

You are correct. It should be thought. There is a difference between thought which has to do with thinking and though, which is short for although.


5 posted on 01/12/2020 3:59:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: HighSierra5

you are funn


6 posted on 01/12/2020 4:04:56 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: humblegunner

You’re being a little touph on the poor guy, aren’t you?


7 posted on 01/12/2020 4:07:11 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

I though I was being funny.


8 posted on 01/12/2020 4:08:59 AM PST by humblegunner
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There are many more women who are in tech and are entrepreneurs who could run circles around Trump on how technology will impact the future of work,” Milanesi wrote....

Nice how the commenter slides the evil women hating trump into this.

Diversity kills when it is souley used as a visual for anything


9 posted on 01/12/2020 4:11:43 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: humblegunner

There is help available if you search hard enogh.

10 posted on 01/12/2020 4:13:07 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Kaslin

That was my though when I read it...


11 posted on 01/12/2020 4:17:24 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Kaslin

Actually the correct headline is in the article if one cares to read it.

“Tech and Diversity of Thought”


12 posted on 01/12/2020 4:42:27 AM PST by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: humblegunner

Well; it appears that you’ve phailed.


13 posted on 01/12/2020 4:45:53 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

I expect Ivanka will the HOST (AKA keynote speaker)of the gathering. No one believes she’s speaking as an IT/Tech expert.


14 posted on 01/12/2020 5:19:07 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Kaslin

Wondering if the same people complaining about Ivanka speaking would be the ones listening to Greta Thunberg’s claptrap?


15 posted on 01/12/2020 5:23:47 AM PST by oldtech
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To: oldtech

That would not surprise me.


16 posted on 01/12/2020 5:31:30 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

A quick look at past keynote speakers does suggest Ivanka doesn’t belong. They all seem to be CEO’s or high executives of tech companies.

This hire seems to be a reaction to leftist groups and marketing people. Because of that, I say good job!


17 posted on 01/12/2020 5:35:58 AM PST by Varda
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To: oldtech

It may not be a 100% match but I’ll bet the overlap on that Venn diagram is nearly complete.


18 posted on 01/12/2020 5:39:25 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Kaslin

Salesforce had ex-President Obama in a keynote session at their last convention. That guy doesn’t even know which email address he is sending to.


19 posted on 01/12/2020 5:51:52 AM PST by glorgau
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They are nothing but filthy hypocrites.


20 posted on 01/12/2020 6:20:49 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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