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Marazan | on: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
> FBs DEI program increased black and brown employees from 8% to 12%

That's a 50% increase. Seems pretty successful to me.

Aunche | parent | next
It depends on how this percentage was raised. If they actually increased the black and brown talent pool by 50%, that would be an unequivocal success. What I suspect actually happens is that recruiters are incentivized to improve DEI metrics, so they simply hand out more interviews to underrepresented candidates. The end result is that higher tier companies simply poach these candidates from lower tier companies.
o0-0o | parent
So, more "black and brown" people (your words not mine), and less, what, White and Yellow and Red people and Purple people? = success? That sounds a bit racist to me, just saying.
kridsdale1 | root | parent | next
Apparently Indians don’t count as Brown.
aprilthird2021 | root | parent
In DEI parlance, black and brown refers to African-Americans and Latinos, although, curiously they also do accept African H1B visa holders in this group, despite them typically having high education, wealth from home, etc.
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Drew_ | root | parent
Achieving representation closer to that of the wider population is not racist.
kridsdale1 | root | parent | next
Which population? FB hires from everywhere in the world and sponsors visas. Having an employee base that’s 30% Chinese and 30% indian should thus be the goal.
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ponow | root | parent | next
If you have to force something, it is. And it's being forced. If we made more white play in the NBA it might seem clearer.
Dalewyn | root | parent | next
You are explicitly considering a man's race, that is racism.
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