White people are underrepresented at Google in the US, if you go by general demographics [1] [2]. This is probably not the best way to think about it, as there are many other variables, but it's also not at all compatible with "Google only hires white dudes".
There's a real problem with diversity in the tech industry, from FAANG on down. But it's not a one-sided problem--it's not just ignorant or evil, cruel, racist white straight men. They have the lion's share of the power, and so they get deservedly more scrutiny. But there's a growing, insidious "callout culture" that is just as cancerous, and growing.
And now I'm a bit over the "it's okay to be a confrontational asshole as long as I'm calling it being assertive/justly indignant/fighting for social justice while complaining that people treat me worse because I'm not white" shtick.
Sometimes it's justly and righteously asserting yourself, or fighting against racism, sexism, or homophobia. Sometimes it's just being a contrary asshole and hiding behind these social issues as cover for acting like an asshole. And it's okay to not like people who do that. These tweets scream that there is more to the story that isn't being told, and likely never will be.
do you mean asian? They're ~5% of the US population and ~42% of google's population according to the other user's link. Meanwhile blacks, hispanics, and whites have significant underrepresentation
When your management chain 3 levels deep are Indian males and most English on the team is spoken in broken Chinese accents you know white males are totally overrepresented. /s
> When your management chain 3 levels deep are Indian males and most English on the team is spoken in broken Chinese accents you know white males are totally overrepresented. /s
Just because they are overrepresented doesn't mean that they are the only, or proportionately most, overrepresented (though I do think you point out an important factor in toxic white attitudes in tech; the fact that there are non-Whites that are also, and possibly more , overrepresented in tech, including tech leadership, than Whites makes those Whites who are inculturated to be prone to racial insecurity particularly insecure.)
The beauty of the reasoning in your comment is that you can apply it to literally any white person who doesn’t fall in line with the narrative that whites are an oppressive, racist majority in tech.
It’s possible for that to be true in a global or more high level context, e.g., “the tech industry as a whole,” and at the same time be far from the truth, say, at Google. And it’s reasonable and appropriate—and not at all a sign of white insecurity—to point that out.
For my part, the worst sort of person in this discussion is the white person who puts on a facade of wokeness or racial sensitivity without admitting the possibility that the world isn’t, as it were, black and white.
Your comment kind of made sense until you bolted on a parathetical tangent to the statement.
Is over-representation something that should be combated in all cases or only if the over-represented group is labeled by the woke as "white"? Can or can't you be racist to someone who is "white"? Does this apply universally or only in the western hemisphere. Are the Chinese "white"? Only in China perhaps? What about the Uyghurs or the Jews are they "white"? What about in China or Israel?
