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FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers
theodp writes: There's more work to do," said Facebook's Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams, who issued a straight-out-of-How-to-Lie-With-Statistics diversity update on Thursday that essentially consisted of a handful of bar charts labeled with only percentages for select measures of the social networking giant's current demographics. In search of real numbers, the Guardian turned to Facebook's most recent Equal Employment Opportunity report filing, which showed that the ranks of black employees swelled by a grand total of seven (7) (1 woman) in the year covered by the filing, during which time Facebook saw an overall headcount increase of 1,231. Comparing Facebook's new bar charts of US tech employees to those issued last year shows the proportion of Hispanic and Black employees remained flat at 3% and 1% respectively, while a decline in the proportion of white employees from 53% to 51% was offset by an increase in the proportion of Asian employees from 41% to 43%.
How about "people can do what they like and it's none of my business"? If black people/women/transexual Muslim asexuals don't want to work in STEM how about we assume they're capable enough to reach that decision on their own, without the need to engage in social engineering to correct them. Saying "gee, these black people aren't intelligent enough to figure out they should go into science, let's convince them" is just a veiled form or racism.
If there's some Great White Conspiracy to keep the black man down, neither I nor anyone I know are part of it. Indeed, all my cohorts (including the black ones) say the same thing- something along the lines of, "Shut up, raise your kids well, buy your beer, and don't annoy your neighbors". I don't know what's so groundbreaking about that.
I also notice that you've focussed on my second point, while ignoring the first. Care to comment? I have intimate experience, as well as reading about it all over the place- it's not a melanin thing. Black people come to the US from all over the world and do well. It's US black culture that is to blame.
Furthermore, you whipped out the "racist" card, so here we go: shut up and behave. This may take a while to result in change... but isn't this what everyone should be doing anyway?
Dice cares. Oh, and certain advocacy groups. The general population really doesn't care. Why should they? No one has yet actually demonstrated that this is a problem and anyone is being denied opportunity.
"If parents do not get involved then no amount of money spent on education will accomplish much."
I cannot agree with this enough. I am a teacher (at an international school in Tokyo). Way back when I was a student teacher in the US, we had parent/teacher night. I had one class which was a strong academic class with about 15 students. I had another class with 40 low academic students. For the class with 15 students, the parent/teacher night was full with parents - basically 100% of the students had a parent show up. For the class with 40 students only about 15 parents showed up - basically about 25% of the students had a parent show. This shows the relative importance of education for each group (of course, I'm sure some parents couldn't make it due to working at that time). There is only so much teachers and schools can do - education and values start at home.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
I like how Asians are simply assigned Honorary White People status when they don't fit the narrative.
I was talking about this to my girlfriend who is a dental assistant and I explained it this way. I first asked her how many male dental assistants she has worked with in her 10 years or so of working in that field. She said two, both gay. I then asked her what she would do if the media / government suddenly insisted that she hates men since there aren't any on the job and that she had better bring that up to a 50% ratio quickly. I asked her what she would do. She said that there wasn't any way, men didn't apply for the job. That made my point. I have another family member who is a speech pathologist, same issue - no men apply. Until these cases are addressed this is just another witch hunt.
They come here, work 16 hour days often living with 5 other families living in a studio apartment. They work hard, they learn a skill, they learn a new language and are succeeding beyond anything that could have been hoped for in their homeland. They know what hard work is and to get things they must work for them through adversity.
Now their precious snowflake knows none of these things. She watches tv and sees people driving in Lamborghinis and living in beachfront houses Malibu and knows nothing about their background, but thinks her parents are losers for not having a car and living with other losers. She knows she deserves something better. All of her friends are in exactly the same position.
Meanwhile, she isn't doing her homework and when my girlfriend would talk to the parents at conferences it usually went:we try to make her study, but snowflake threatens to report us and have us deported. Snowflake and her friend knows they'll never have to work as hard as their parents but deserve a lot more because everyone else.
I live a short distance outside Detroit. Come take a drive with me some afternoon and I'll introduce you to countless examples. I'm a professional blues guitarist and regularly live, work, and eat with black people and have for decades, and have dated a number of black women over the years as well, many with children. It's a result of the culmination of decades of cultural and social messages blacks receive their entire lives from government entitlement programs, affirmative action laws & policies, schools/colleges, music/media/mainstream news, and their peers.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.