[externalreality]

> This tends to underestimate other systemic disadvantages that prevent women and minorities from staying in the field, such as harassment, unfair compensation, and imbalances of power.

I worked at a place that made a push to hire minorities (it would seem). However, these minorities would leave faster then they could be hired. If a minority "opened their mouth" they would likely be terminated - only white men were allowed to have an opinion or be passionate. Other minorities would just leave after a few months and the white male leadership would always make happy excuses for why that person left (e.g. "Oh she didn't like X" or "he didn't really think Y worked for him"). In the mean time I sat there and watched as white new hires were coddled and treated well while minorities were gossiped about in the most horrible way if they made what appeared to be even a simple mistake. I say "what appeared to be a mistake" because in these gossip sessions (that conveniently only happened when only white people where in the room) it didn't seem that anyone ever asked the minority anything about the apparent mistake. It was almost like they were trying to convince themselves that the person was unqualified and didn't want to take the chance that they could be wrong - so they didn't inquire in the least.

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Also in competitive video games, there's almost zero minority or female representation (except Asian guys but they dont count because reasons).

And basketball is extremely racist. Most basketball players in the world are Asian and they have very little representation in the NBA.

[externalreality]

I'm not sure anybody used the word "racist" except for you. No offense, you seem kind of bitter. Comparing bias in tech to the fact that most NBA players are black is quite disingenuous given 23% - 25% of NBA players are white compared to 2% of tech personnel being black. But based on the content of your post logical reasoning doesn't seem to matter. I can see you in a basement wearing a maga cap and posting on hacker news while alternating between listening to trump rallies and fox news.