Why "sniveling white dudes" and not "sniveling dudes?"

What does his skin color have to do with anything?

Maybe, on average, women don't prefer tech as often? - Grab the pitchforks!

Snivelling white dudes. - Let's call a spade a spade...

you mean a group of people socialized away from something from the day they are born are socialized away from it?

The memo's main point was that it would make sense to focus on diversity efforts closer to the day people are born instead of desperately filling quotas.

He was interested in exploring effective long term diversity instead of the kind a company could point to in a lawsuit as quickly as possible.

But it's much easier to label someone as snivelling and call it a day (also eluded to in the memo - in the title).