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Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f... by waisbrot on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:35PM (#17516249)
> the narrative of whites discriminating against minorities

You made up that narrative. The narrative presented in the article is

> Williams noted that, "diversity is critical to our success as a company"

Achieving "diversity" is not the same as mirroring the demographics of a company's home country and "over-representation" is not directly related to lack of diversity.

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Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f... by radiantswirl on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:42PM (#17516902)
If "diverse" != mirroring the demographics of one's home country, then what does diverse even mean? What could possibly be a better metric than that? Mirroring the demographics of the world at large? If so, why would that be better?
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