> 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?
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.)