Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Re: The tech industry is white and male because women/minorities have no brains

2 views
Skip to first unread message

Byker

unread,
Jan 15, 2016, 8:58:06 PM1/15/16
to
"SUSPECT is male, black" wrote in message
news:678a3e34-e779-4256...@googlegroups.com...
>
> By minorities I mean blacks and latinos. Orientals are fine. But women,
> who often outperform men in maths early in school simply do not have the
> drive or interest in technology and science to keep-up with their male
> counterparts.

Go to a college graduation sometime and look at the demographics. In Liberal
Arts, you'll see lots and lots of women, Hispanics, and blacks. In Math and
Science, the graduating class will be over 90% White/Asian male. There will
be a few women and virtually no blacks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What's wrong with this headline: Black caucus brings diversity push to
Silicon Valley

By Newsmachete

Diversity is good, except when it isn't. When you see a Politico headline
that reads " Black caucus brings diversity push to Silicon Valley," it
looks a little odd, because an exclusionary group that permits people of
only one race, the Black Caucus, is pushing a different group, Silicon
Valley, to have more diversity: http://tinyurl.com/zraxpf6

In fact, a few years ago, Congressman Stephen Cohen, who has a lot of black
constituents, requested permission to join the Black Caucus but was refused
because he was white: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0107/2389.html

Ditto for the United Negro College Fund and other groups that focus on
people of one race while hypocritically calling on other races to support
them.

“My district is right next to Silicon Valley, and for years and years and
years, my constituents have been part of those who have not had access to
these opportunities, even the ones who have the qualifications, background
and skills,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’s helping to lead the
black caucus’ tour next week.

Does anyone really believe that Silicon Valley is turning away thousands of
qualified black engineers?

“We always say diversity is good for business, and the tech industry is
beginning to understand that,” she said in an interview.

Why is diversity good for business? Aren't people with the best skills good
for business? If diversity is good for business, why is it bad for
politics, for exclusionary groups like the Black Caucus?

Joining Lee on the trip are CBC’s Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), and
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). They plan to meet with senior executives at
Apple, Google, Intel, Pandora and SAP to deliver their message.

“Our hope is that [tech companies] embrace the importance of creating a tech
pipeline, and will take meaningful steps to ensure the availability of
opportunities for African-Americans at every level of the tech industry,”
Butterfield said in a statement.

What is a "tech pipeline"? I thought liberals didn't like pipelines. There
are no "tech pipelines" as far as I know. What does exist, however, are
college and grad school graduates who apply for jobs. Blacks apply in fewer
numbers than their percentage in the population. Why would this be Google's
or Apple's fault or responsibility?

Apple’s latest data, released in 2014, showed a U.S. employee base that was
55 percent white and 15 percent Asian, with 11 percent Hispanic and 7
percent black, and a global workforce that was 70 percent male. “As CEO, I’m
not satisfied with the numbers on this page,” CEO Tim Cook wrote at the
time.

How Orwellian is this? Cook is not satisfied with his own performance? Is
he accusing himself of being a racist? It's like he's speaking about
himself in the third person. He's been a CEO for years. If he's not happy
with this, why hasn't he done something about it? The answer is that it's
all just talk, an attempt to keep the Black Caucus off his back. Cook and
the others have to act as though they're taking steps to increase the number
of black employees when they know full well that they are powerless to
increase the labor supply.

“Many of these companies are federal contractors, first of all, and they
have an obligation to be inclusive,” Lee said. “We want to see [diversity]
plans from each company, and see how they’re going to invest.”

What is a diversity plan? What kind of plan can there be other than to hire
the best-qualified employee for each slot?

The group is also asking firms to publish more nuanced diversity data, work
directly with historically black colleges and universities to train
potential recruits[.]

Is that the job of a tech company, to train recruits? Isn't that the job,
of say, a school?

Pandora acknowledged it has “work that we need to do,” adding that “the CBC
will certainly add an important voice in this conversation.”

I'm sure it will.

Exit question: Do you find it more amusing or alarming that these very
liberal companies (Apple, Google) are submitting self-criticisms to satisfy
the racial shakedown crowd? http://tinyurl.com/hlqmyyd


Siri Cruz

unread,
Jan 16, 2016, 3:18:53 AM1/16/16
to
In article <F9Odnfx7La4wPgTL...@earthlink.com>,
"Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

> What's wrong with this headline: Black caucus brings diversity push to
> Silicon Valley

Why are so you pissed off over Apple's hiring policy?

--
:-<> Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-001. Disavowed. Denied. Deleted.
'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since we
cannot prove the consistency. ~~ Morris Kline

MattB

unread,
Jan 16, 2016, 3:09:58 PM1/16/16
to
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:53:14 -0700, coo...@loon.com wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:58:12 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>
>>Go to a college graduation sometime and look at the demographics. In Liberal
>>Arts, you'll see lots and lots of women, Hispanics, and blacks. In Math and
>>Science, the graduating class will be over 90% White/Asian male. There will
>>be a few women and virtually no blacks
>


Gary you are white.

MattB

unread,
Jan 16, 2016, 5:35:27 PM1/16/16
to
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:23:39 -0700, coo...@loon.com wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:10:04 -0800, MattB <trdel...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:53:14 -0700, coo...@loon.com wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:58:12 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Go to a college graduation sometime and look at the demographics. In Liberal
>>>>Arts, you'll see lots and lots of women, Hispanics, and blacks. In Math and
>>>>Science, the graduating class will be over 90% White/Asian male. There will
>>>>be a few women and virtually no blacks
>>>
>>
>>
>>Gary you are white.
>
>Color is no never mind--when it comes to calling your racist fuckwits
>what they are.

So you become racist to call out racist?
>
>Question is--Why do you always side with the scum?

I don't side with the anyone here just pointing out you are white.
>
>
>>===========================================================
>
This is from another post

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:13:41 -0600, Yoor...@Jurgis.net wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:37:09 -0400, George Roselles
><RC...@noemail.org> wrote:
>
>>Cracker is racist because like Kike, Whopp, Greaser, Nigger,Kraut, Frog,
>>Slope etc etc it's used by one race or nationality to refer -
>>disparagingly - to another in order to degrade.
>
>There NOTHING in any o' the above that has a foundation in TREATMENT
>of a race.
>
>Only blacks were bought and sold, abused, lynched, not considered
>fully human, and BY LAW were discriminated against by whites.
>
>So, you got no argument
>
>A disparaging label is offensive....but only the term used for blacks
>is racist.

END
0 new messages