Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left

Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by minikites on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:47PM (#13601916)

Many of these comments seem to indicate that lots of people are threatened by diversity, that maybe their privilege is ending and they might start getting treated as equals.

And to those commenters who think current hiring practices are fair:

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

"We find little evidence that our results are driven by employers inferring something other than race, such as social class, from the names. These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market."

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by tubehouse on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:09PM (#13602132)

Almost everyone agrees with the idea of hiring based on merit instead of prejudice. But I very often see diversity advocates attacking the idea of merit-based hiring. For example, making fun of people that use the word "meritocracy" has become a popular meme. Personally I'm not sure how to account for this discrepancy.

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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:23PM (#13602252)

Perhaps because 'meritocracy' is sometimes advanced as an excuse for ignoring other factors, without the proponent investing the effort to actually use double-blind method for selecting among applicants to avoid the possibility of bias among hiring managers.

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Re:Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR o... by forgetsusername on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:59PM (#13602039)

>Many of these comments seem to indicate that lots of people are threatened by diversity

Because the position of "VP of diversity and inclusion" sounds ridiculous?

>These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market.

This surprises precisely no one. What does it have to do with the article?

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