Re:Diversity and Inclusion in Plaid Engineering
by happytoexplain on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:46AM
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This seems like a mean-spirited leap. The quote says that they want to have a diverse team because their product's userbase is diverse, and you're saying they don't think people are capable of empathizing with people of a different skin color. Their intentions and/or implementations may not match their stated goal for all I know, but it seems like based on very little you've declared that this quote is racist.
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Re:Diversity and Inclusion in Plaid Engineering
by Wintamute on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:20PM
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I don't think it's a leap. It's the fundamental idea behind the corporate jargon. They didn't just say they want a diverse team because their users are diverse, they explicitly said that to empathize well with their diverse users they need a diverse team. I find that notion quite reprehensible, but it's parroted so much these days that most people now just accept it as somehow self-evident.