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Congressional Black Caucus Begs Apple For Its 'Trade Secret' Racial Data
theodp writes: In Silicon Valley this week, Rep. Barbara Lee called on Apple and other holdouts among the nation's tech companies to release federal data on the diversity of their work forces. She was with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus to turn up the heat on the tech industry to hire more African Americans. "If they believe in inclusion," said Lee, "they have to release the data so the public knows that they are being transparent and that they are committed to doing the right thing." Apple has refused to make public the EEO-1 data that it routinely supplies to the U.S. Dept. of Labor on the demographics of their workers. In the absence of the race and gender data, which Apple and others historically argued were 'trade secrets' and thus not subject to release Freedom of Information requests, tech companies were free to make unchecked claims about their Black employee ranks (Google's 2007 Congressional testimony) until recent disclosures revealed otherwise. The National Science Foundation was even convinced to redirect NSF grant money specifically earmarked for getting African American boys into the computer science pipeline to a PR campaign for high school girls of all colors and economic backgrounds.
The CBC, of course, has openly stated that they refuse entrance to people of other races. So their diversity is exactly zero.
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The quickest way to increase diversity is to get rid of discrimination protection. It is very risky to hire someone from a protected group. If they are not a good fit for the company there is a substantial legal risk to firing them and overhead for carefully creating a paper trail to CYA. It is much easier to hire people from non-protective groups. If they don't work out you fire them and try someone else. Of course for businesses they like the H1-B's the most because if you fire them they get deported which really puts them in a position of power.
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It's pretty obvious that all the tech companies are trying to increase diversity but the talent simply doesn't exist in the industry. There needs to be more minority and female students taking computing science in university, which means better recruitment for girls coming out of high school and better schools for minorities in general.
but why do there need to be more minorities and females in IT? forced diversity is blatant prejudice.
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It's pretty obvious that all the tech companies are trying to increase diversity but the talent simply doesn't exist in the industry. There needs to be more minority and female students taking computing science in university, which means better recruitment for girls coming out of high school and better schools for minorities in general.
but why do there need to be more minorities and females in IT?
There needs to be more minorities because a society where certain minorities are largely absent from high end professions is not a healthy society. It's unfair to those minorities who become a lower class, unstable because those minorities are resentful and tend to cause crime, and under-performing because you're losing out on their economic potential.
Imagine how much better the US would be if you could transform the ghettos into middle class communities.
As for females there needs to be females because an office that is 90% male sucks for both the 90% who are guys and the 10% who are girls.
forced diversity is blatant prejudice.
How did you read "better recruitment for girls coming out of high school and better schools for minorities in general" and end up with "forced diversity"?
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I worked for a shop a few years back and got to know one of the HR folks fairly well. They told me that their online system would export all the candidates who applied for a position to a spreadsheet with the click of a button, so the HR manager could review them. It had a column for what the applicant selected under the optional question about race.
It would be directive at some times to not hire anyone who clicked the box for 'caucasian'. That meant the HR manager wasn't going to waste their time investigating the applicants who clicked 'prefer not to answer' and they simply moved on to candidates who marked 'african american'.
I asked them how I got hired, being a caucasian male myself. The response was; "Your row on the applicant list spreadsheet would probably be hidden today."
Black lives matter is simply pointing out the discrimination - that black lives appear to matter less than white ones in some cases. It does not seek to exclude white lives or ask for special treatment, just equal treatment.
On the other hand, fake claims of reverse discrimination is discrimination, because it is designed up prevent black people getting equal treatment by addressing the existing deficit.
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