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From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com)
Reader joshtops shares a Bloomberg report: Google isn't the only Silicon Valley employer being accused of hostility to white men. Yahoo and Tata Consultancy Services were already fighting discrimination lawsuits brought by white men before Google engineer James Damore ignited a firestorm -- and got himself fired -- with an internal memo criticizing the company's diversity efforts and claiming women are biologically less suited than men to be engineers. The Yahoo case began last year when two men sued, claiming they'd been unfairly fired after managers allegedly manipulated performance evaluations to favor women. They claim Marissa Mayer approved the review process and was involved in their terminations, and last month a judge ordered the former chief executive be deposed. TCS, meanwhile, is fighting three men who claim the Mumbai-based firm discriminates against non-Indians at its U.S. offices.
The “Google Manifesto”: Bad Biology, Ignorance of Evolutionary Processes, and Privilege
But don't worry, discrimination against white males is socially acceptable.
I think that the bigger issue is that, generally, women are not as interested in tech jobs as guys are.
Women are 100% as capable as men in tech fields -- when they choose those fields. I have known some great women engineers.
However, women only make up approximately 20% of I.T. related degrees earned.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Where are whites being discriminated against, other than in conspiracy theories?
By "progressives" all over the fucking place.
For example:
Stacey Evans gets shouted down at Netroots conference
Democrat Stacey Evans’ speech to a conference of progressive activists descended into chaos on Saturday, as protesters interrupted her repeatedly and she struggled to make herself heard over chants of “support black women.”
Evans, a Smyrna state legislator who is white, expected a tough audience at the Netroots Nation event, where her rival Stacey Abrams was treated like royalty. But she said she at least expected to be able to make it through her remarks.
That didn’t happen.
Almost as soon as she took the stage, a ring of demonstrators – some holding stark signs criticizing her – fanned out in front of Evans. The chanting soon followed. Pleading repeatedly for the room to speaks – “let’s talk through it,” she implored – the demonstrators at times drowned her out.
One of the demonstrators, Monica Simpson, said she made her stand because she wanted to show she was “true to progressive values.”
Asked why Evans hasn’t met that standard, Simpson couldn’t point to any votes or policy stances. But she said she wants “a candidate that truly speaks to my community.” [the blatant racist...]
“This is our opportunity, especially as black women, to make it known or clear that this is standing on true progressive values,” said Simpson, who lives in Atlanta. “And if you’re not, we’re going to make that clear.”
A few decades ago before California legally banned preferential treatment, many or most San Francisco schools gave preference to minority student applicants, and by law back then, such status was self-declared and could not legally be questioned. I am shocked to say many people (students, or parents on behalf of their kids) declared themselves as minorities so they could get admitted to the better schools. It turns out of the various classes, claiming Native American ancestry was extremely common among this group, probably because it didn't come with as much social stigma as other protected groups.
As an aside, can you think of any other famous person recently who has claimed Native American ancestry to help bolster their status, where the claim cannot be verified? Does the name Elizabeth Warren ring any bells?
Now try looking for Trans, PoC, etc Queer people - yeah. They barely exist.
That'd be because (aside from "PoC"), they do barely exist, at least in the US. It's well under a percent for trans people, and 1-2 percent queer/lesbian/gay. I haven't seen any studies on the topic, but I wouldn't be surprised to find they're actually overrepresented in the media (I can't find simple numbers with a quick Google search, but Wikipedia gives ~4% for regular broadcast TV characters, which is surprisingly close to the right fraction). And as for "PoC": they're again usually represented at around the expected demographic fraction (13% of movie characters vs. 13.6% of the population, for e.g.), except for IIRC Asians, who tend to be overrepresented, and Mexicans, who tend to be underrepresented.
Mind you, people will still complain because most people have no idea what the demographics in the US actually are (such as for e.g. this, admittedly quite dated, study), and for many special interests groups, that's a feature, not a bug. A news story of "only 3 of the 20 Oscar nominees are black!" gets clicks, "black actors slightly overrepresented at the Oscars" does not.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
I gotta say, I get treated pretty nicely. When I was a twenty-something I was really resentful because I couldn't figure out how to get dates. I want to believe that there is more to this kerfuffle than that, but I really just don't get it. Why are my youthful brethren so discontent?
I am a white man, early forties. Every celebration of diversity I have seen during nearly 20 years as a professional has been to the detriment of whites in general (and white men specifically). Diversity means giving preferences to women, LGBT, or racial minorities. It means I have to be twice as qualified in order to compete against individuals in the desired minorities. I have been passed over for raises two years in a row while all minorities in my company got significant pay increases.