Re:Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers
by noetic_techy on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:51PM
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I think the other comments here point to the fact that this systemic racism argument doesn't hold up well against actual studies and data. It's an ill defined spectre that vanishes when you look closely.
> over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'
Is that the bar here? Median household income has always been the bar when talking about the success of racial groups, not the number in leadership roles etc etc. I mean, are we only supposed to be satisfied when 4.8% of all leadership roles are held by Asian Americans? What about their cultural preferences? What about regional populations?
The truth is actual a lot more nuanced. It essentially boils down to a cultural and pipeline problem:
> over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'
Is that the bar here? Median household income has always been the bar when talking about the success of racial groups, not the number in leadership roles etc etc. I mean, are we only supposed to be satisfied when 4.8% of all leadership roles are held by Asian Americans? What about their cultural preferences? What about regional populations?
The truth is actual a lot more nuanced. It essentially boils down to a cultural and pipeline problem:
The study:
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race...
The liberal viewpoint:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
The conservative viewpoint:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28473/nyt-claims-groundbreaki...
The counter arguments logic is hard to ignore. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle.