[jarfil]

I think this article reads a lot like "we need equal rights, so give us special treatment because we're different".

All that lobbying for people who did not meet the technical criteria, that getting upset at the idea of someone not noticing his differentiating blackness.

He might have a point in the part about how many minorities are using the service, but I don't see how the tech department should be concerned at all with that. Community relations, marketing, sure. Not tech.

[giaour]

The author mentioned unfair, non-technical criteria being applied to candidates, with the effect being that talented minority engineers were being filtered out of the hiring pipeline.

[jarfil]

How is that a reason for lobbying that only minority candidates be treated fairly. Fix it for all, or don't expect my sympathy.

[giaour]

Umm... it isn't. Removing a barrier with a discriminatory effect would remove it for all.

[mazerackham]

Tech builds the product that these people use. It makes sense for a representation of those users to be building the product.

[jarfil]

It makes sense to have a representative oversee the guidelines for building the product, I don't see how it matters who actually gets to build it.