[obvious_throw]

That's so strange. According to Shanley Kane and Anil Dash, the Valley is dominated by racist white men who systematically exclude all outgroups.

Clearly, this article is just the white supremacists and their power structures writing puff pieces to hide the slavery lurking within the black heart of the Valley?

[tsax]

Look guize, us Asian men don't count in the diversity quota. In fact it works against us. We retain all the 'privilege' narrative-based negative points in Progressive demonology as white men, plus we gain a few systematic discrimination points from University affirmative action programs, etc. Whenever 'diversity' is mentioned, we are either invisible or to be implicitly counted among white men.

[mikestew]

I seem to recall from a long, long time ago back in the day when I had to fill out some sort of team diversity form at MSFT that Asians didn't count.

Take this anecdotal datum with a huge grain of salt, and season it further with the fact that I'm dredging up memories from ten years ago. Maybe it was Indians (yes, a subset of Asians, I realize), I don't know. I just remember asking HR about $NON_WHITE_GUY, and was told he didn't count because (paraphrasing) "successful minority group in software".

[wavefunction]

Progressives don't demonize white people. You should investigate what a progressive actually is, rather than regurgitate whatever talking points you're getting from mass media or wherever.

[beachstartup]

all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits.

[crassus]

Progressivism is a low-evidence ideology, but a high status one due to its dominance of universities. From its high ground in academia, it is also invading tech. But yeah, it's mostly wrong.

[vezzy-fnord]

You're confusing progressivism with postmodern feminism. The purpose of the latter is not to make any sort of worthwhile progress, but to fuel its followers' various complexes.

[matthewmacleod]

Oh, do fuck off and take your strawman with you.

Nobody—I repeat, nobody at all—is claiming that "the Valley is dominated by racist white men who systematically exclude all outgroups." That's not a thing. Nobody's saying it, except you.

However, people are quite correctly and accurately pointing out that there is an underrepresentation of minority groups in tech. It's great the Asian tech workers aren't suffering from this - but that's not the only problem! In other words, the target of attack is not "white men", but underrepresentation of other groups!

Ignoring for the moment that this article is out-of-date, you'll see from the numbers contained in it that while Asian-American workers proliferate, a mere 4.2% of tech jobs are taken by Hispanics - despite this being a group that forms fully 25% of the population of the area. The same vastly disproportionate numbers apply to other groups. And that's without even getting started on the social and economic issues surrounding the fact that these are H1B workers.

There's no quick and easy solution to this problem, but your gross mischaracterisations do absolutely nothing to help.

[obvious_throw]

A brief and cursory glance at the twitter history of @shanley demonstrates quite clearly that people, specifically visible and influential people, are indeed saying exactly this.

[mycroft-holmes]

> In other words, the target of attack is not "white men"

Have you read Shanley Kane?