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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by bitwize on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:23PM (#27384484)
And you're not educated enough to understand that "meritocracy" is a myth that entrenches existing power and privilege structures, because the people who are good at something are the people with the resources and social capital it takes to get good at that thing.
Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by erik_seaberg on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:14PM (#27389008)
Skills and experience were not distributed fairly, but they are still real and still necessary. The fix for missing education is more education, not trying to somehow do without it.
Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by JPKab on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:19PM (#27389039)
Ahhh, so if I disagree with you on a point, it's due to lack of education?

That's a hell of a worldview.

I grew up in an impoverished family, in a trailer park, in a mostly black county. I know far better than you do about "privilege structures", but since I happened to be white, none of the diversity initiatives care or help.

Poor white people are underrepresented in tech. But the white elites think poor whites are in trailer parks because they are stupid. It's their fault, right? That's what all of you say, I've heard it said everywhere. "Trailer trash" this and that, said casually without batting an eye. Never questioning if maybe, just maybe, the kids born there have opportunities equivalent to yours.

It's obvious nobody cares. If they did, they would talk about it, or try to do something. But there are no activist professors for them, so crickets.