not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly wiki.
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“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?
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lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?
ottoflux commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314
Admittedly didn't read the thin article. I do think there's something to the premise that people from diverse backgrounds end up unhappy.
Poorly run diversity efforts are upsetting to POC. In a way they all tend to be poorly run. It can be infantilizing and condescending.
Ultimately, we end up falling short of the numbers, so the people behind the programs are unhappy. POC are unhappy because of the quality of how the programs tend to be run. Obviously the fascists/republicans aren't happy. The centerist people tend to fall between the people running the program and the right.
So who's supposed to be happy. I will say that in my experience, these diversity programs don't exist. That is to say the really overbearing ones people complain about. I imagine it's a bigger thing for SV and some big companies (although, I have worked for big companies).
In my experience, programs are nearly non-existent and the minorities they hire are at least "pretty competent", which is hard to find in software. If anything, it looks like they're still being pretty choosy. So people like OP get their wish, and the programs are pretty laid back.
for anyone else not able to get past the paywall:
from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little".
for thinking increasing DE&I at work is a good thing, only 47% of white people agreed while 78%, 72%, 65% (Black, Asian, Hispanic) thought so.
ottoflux commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314
My issue isn't with the ostensible spirit or intent of DEI programs. The concept sounds great. The problem is the corporate implementations are transparently inauthentic and insincere. It's abundantly clear that the real intent is PR and compliance, not some altruistic desire for fairness.
This is totally true more often than not (in my experience).
ottoflux commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314
Lets say what it is, there aren't enough African Americans in the white collar workplace.
Its not that we don't have Asians, Mexicans, or Indians. At least half the companies I worked for, white people were less than 50% of the workers.
Its not a current racism issue, its likely a relic of racism issue. A large number of African Americans grow up in poor areas, get terrible education, are among a non-work-ethic driven culture, and never make it to the American Dream. Repeat generation after generation. Sure there are racists from the south, but talk to an African American of privilege(middle/upper middle class) living in a city. They have little bad things to say, and mostly blame it on the individual.
The issue is the zip code. You can see it in how white people living in these same areas perform.
you make good points but i'd argue it's both. i'm talking about the subconscious bias aspect of racism (to your point it's a relic of racism, but it's an active relic) as well - this is the very reason we need DE&I. we're 3 to 4 years into it and still non-marginalized folks don't seem to fully understand the problem.
i feel like "talk to an African American of privilege" and what follows is incorrect. i know and have known a lot of well off Black friends and associates and they all have stories - there are a lot of racists in the north too, they just act a little different.
ottoflux commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314
“No one”?!?
Poorly written headline for a very thin article.
Sure, lots of people who are white and deny systemic racism or the effects of it exist. That’s literally the problem we’re fighting and why we need diversity efforts.
i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate speech have been making a lot of inroads in the fediverse and in part (imo) due to the fact that we don't have a good way to trust other admin's decisions to block/ban servers and users and relay those quickly.
Dorsey isn't really "actively" in any of this process or direction beyond the initial setup of things at Blue Sky btw. Jay is doing a great job and a lot of the "protocol" hubbub is actually some unfortunate (in this scenario) nomenclature and less actual new protocols.
i'm for whatever thing(s) allow for a healthier online experience for folks and whatever keeps _us_ from being the product.
(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-way relay for sites that want it)
It's pretty neat. So is Mastodon though, and the ActivityPub network feels a lot more active IMO. People aren't going to want to buy-into a DiD service just to microblog - Pleroma and Mastodon have much lower barriers-to-entry in that sense. In a way, it feels like Dorsey is star-struck by all the nerd porn protocols of the past and desperate to re-hash stuff that has already existed (eg. GPG, RSS, bitcoin, etc.). It's a valiant effort, but nothing will ever "replace" Twitter now. We are in a post-Twitter world, and people are learning to adapt. We need better glue to connect these disparate users, not Another Competing Standard with Blackjack and ID servers.
i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate speech have been making a lot of inroads in the fediverse and in part (imo) due to the fact that we don't have a good way to trust other admin's decisions to block/ban servers and users and relay those quickly.
Dorsey isn't really "actively" in any of this process or direction beyond the initial setup of things at Blue Sky btw. Jay is doing a great job and a lot of the "protocol" hubbub is actually some unfortunate (in this scenario) nomenclature and less actual new protocols.
i'm for whatever thing(s) allow for a healthier online experience for folks and whatever keeps _us_ from being the product.
the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you don’t. and it clearly doesn’t always protect you.