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Ellen Pao Launches Advocacy Group To Improve Diversity In The Tech Industry (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Ellen Pao, a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, today announced the launch of Project Include, an advocacy group aimed at improving diversity in the technology industry. The group was started by Pao and fellow female engineers and executives, including members of Slack, Pinterest, and other Bay Area VC firms. The initiative will focus on providing startups and established tech companies with information on making hiring more inclusive, improving retention, and examining bias in the workplace. Pao became embroiled in one of the most divisive debates in tech last year after suing her former employer, VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, for gender discrimination. She lost at trial and, later, stepped down from her position as interim CEO of Reddit following a severe harassment campaign. Project Include is also accepting as many as 18 startups, who can apply to receive recommendations through a program called Start-Up Include.
Start an advocacy group to harass people who can.
To an SJW, disagreement is synonymous with harassment.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
She lost at trial and, later, stepped down from her position as interim CEO of Reddit following a severe harassment campaign
Please. Here's an outline of the shitshow that Pao and the rest of the Reddit regime (which is still largely intact) caused, leading to her ouster:
https://news.slashdot.org/comm...
Yeah, just for some background. Ellen Pao was no-one. She wasn't a long term user of the site. They tried to make it look like that, but it was a transparent attempt. She was one of these Ivy League fucking for-no-other-reason climbers. They tried to give her a back story as a long term "one of us" people. That only made it worse. And when there was the inevitable pushback against her inevitable claims of sexism, there was an inevitable escalation of those claims. That's all you need to know, other than that she was defeated soundly in law about similar claims regarding her dismissal from a previous job...
agism is the elephant in the room (I'm biased, I'm over 50 and unemployed in the bay area). I see lots of women where I was previous employed (at pretty much any place); but if you look for grey hair guys and girls, no, there are some token hires or maybe some rock star that happens to be old; but for the most part, if you are over 35 and looking to stay technical in this area of the country, LOTSA LUCK to you.
the other elephant (yeah, its crowded in this room) is that if you are born in the west, especially the US, employers mostly prefer to NOT hire you and instead take an h1b or other form of import. its not about race; its about being brought up here and knowing your rights, knowing you can say NO to your boss for that 4th weekend request in a row of his, knowing lots of things that foreigners who were not raised in the US culture simply don't know.
employers leverage the HELL out of that fact. most people outside the US who are from asia, for example, has zero idea what freedom really is. they are perfectly fine with being eavesdropped, spied, directed, micromanaged and then disposed of. they think its normal. US born folks know better, and so we are not the first choice when it comes to hiring.
the cries of DIVERSITY! is bullshit and yet another distraction to hide what is really going on. war on middle class; and that mostly means folks born here and who have a vested interest in what happens here in the next 10, 20, 50 years. but we are being passed over for most of the core hiring in the valley.
btw, indians who end up staying here and having kids; YOUR kids are now americans and they will be passed over just like I and my friends are, now. think long and hard about that, immigrants; and think again if you really should hire yet more h1b's or if you should, maybe give some locals a chance at some of those jobs. later on, your kids will be the locals. think about it.
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I think i finally understand this woman is have the longest period ever
When you can't do real work... start an advocacy group to harass people who can
hire more gay linux nerds who like hard cocks in their rectums
Can you not fathom how there just might be some discrimination happening in the tech world?
Oh I can. I see strong discrimination in favor of employing and promoting 'diversity' candidates. That means STFs (Senior Technical Female), black, native American and disabled. It's not my imagination. It's written down corporate policy. As a hiring manager I would get dinged for not discriminating in this way.
If this were true we wouldn't be seeing this 'sjw-transsexual-feminist conspiracy' oozing from every major media orifice.
1. Game conferences wouldn't be canceled just because there weren't enough vaginas. Valid job applicants wouldn't be terminated days later because their privately/financially expressed political views made someone 'feel uncomfortable.'
2. Politicians wouldn't be taking statistics out of context and passing law.
3. University professors would not be calling for policy to force men to let women speak first in all public discourse, and to cancel such meetings if not enough women are present.
4. TV shows and commercials wouldn't be loaded with 'empowered' women labeling men as 'stupid dad' and 'manpig' stereotypes and ordering them around, or making sure that if the narrative calls for someone to show fear or emotion, it must be the man, with the 'empowered' woman consoling him like he's a child.
5. Sweden (and south carolina) wouldn't be micromanaging how people go to the bathroom.
6. Bruce Jenner would not have been in the news again. Somehow a psychological need to amputate a part of your body is considered a sign of mental illness, but if it's male genitalia, we're supposed to 'celebrate the diversity.' Figure that one out..
If there're chicken littles and conspiracies meant to alter the way we think, they're definitely on the SJW side these days. The religious right tried this same tactic up through the 80s to push its crazy on us and failed. Now I guess it's the left wing's turn to push its brand of crazy. In light of this, it can be hard to remember that all of this hubris has no basis as long as society places individual rights ahead of groupthink ideology. Once we lose that, it's a race to the bottom.
Pao is still operating under the delusion that she's no longer a VC due to sexism. Anyone who closely followed her bias case against Kleiner Perkins knows the exact opposite is true; she was given extraordinary opportunities there, much more than the average partner-in-training. Yet she still couldn't get out of her own way on the path to success paved for her by John Doerr. Diversity was not her foe; it was entitlement, jealously, laziness, and incompetence.
Hilary "Yahoo!Mail" Clinton
lucm, indeed.