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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.
Never hire Ellen Pao.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
If she's backing more U.S. citizens being employed instead of more overseas workers brought in on H1-B's, then I'm all for it, otherwise I couldn't care less.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
The article is a bit light in detail as to what Pao's trying to accomplish, but from her history, I'm assuming it's about gender
But maybe we should focus on diversity of skills and experience rather than diversity of physical characteristics?
Just getting tired about all this diversity stuff and not enough with just simply having the best workers. If they want diversity why does this seem to be limited to the Technology area and not to other areas like medicine? For examples most nurses are women, you don't hear them saying they need more men in nursing?
I hate it when the handlers don't warn the bystanders before they throw in the raw meat.
Yes, we must end the scourge of things being designed by well educated engineers, and add the diversity of blond bimbo strippers, people who "identify" with the gender that they were not born into, people who choose to waste their public education and remain illiterate (although some of those are still waiting for the Basketball or rap "music" opportunity that society owes them), and people who bring different insight through dubious chemical means that Obama chooses to look the other way on. Of course, we will still let the engineers do the actual work, but we must add the other diversity to the design teams.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
If this "project" follows the standard race-hustling/gender-hustling formula, it will look something like this:
1) They approach your company and ask for you to sponsor them, or hire them to provide diversity training, or pay them to do a diversity study of your company (aka they'll shake you down for money)
2) If you do sponsor/hire them, they'll call you progressive and give you a social justice free pass (a real commodity in ultra-liberal Silicon Valley)
3) If you don't, they'll cite you as an example of a company that's not "embracing diversity" and is clearly racist/sexist/homophobic blah blah. You must be, otherwise you would have embraced diversity by giving them money, right?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The shit Ellen Pao has done in the past has done so much harm to the image of women in tech leadership roles than this bullshit campaign can ever fix.
How dare men have a sex drive that doesn't conform to marxism-feminism! Those filthy fascists! Time to build an iron curtain!
Over on Reddit they started calling her "Chairman Pao" for the censorious regime Ms Pao imposed. She also 'purged' pro-Free Speech moderators. We gotta fight such people, the authoritarians "doing it for our own good" or because it "hurts someones feelings".
Free Speech is the whole ballgame. Lose that and no-one gets to "talk Truth to Power".
Here's a tweet from their talented "Lead Growth", who's also founder of "Women in Product":
Day three of using a Windows machine: was totally mentally exhausted last night, dreaded work this morning. Struggling to do small things.
https://twitter.com/merci/stat...
How fucking entitled can someone get?
When I see people like that, I seriously wonder if I should consider another career than IT. Those idiots just ruin the entire industry.
lucm, indeed.
To an MRA, any disagreement or admission of the facts is synonymous with being an SJW.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Painting them with mob tactics. This is frighteningly accurate and come to think of it, not the first time I've heard of social issues being falsely used for personal financial/commercial gain; See Anita Sarkeesian.
What's sad is that the knee jerk sexist responses here only prove Pao's point.
Go fuck yourself, snowflake. We're talking about Pao, not women in general.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Adria Richards did not get that guy fired. The Internet mob of crazy got them both fired.
Right. It's not the person that pulled the trigger, it's the crazy bullets that killed the victims. Someone should call Clinton right quick, her platform of gun control is a sham, she should go full tilt on bullet control.