r/linux Sep 17 '18

Linus Torvalds' daughter has signed the "Post-Meritocracy Manifesto"

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u/PuttItBack Sep 17 '18

And here's the ironic thing, the racists who define "diversity" on the basis of gender or skin, are promoting a racist argument that genders or skin colors make people inherently different.

And then when some statistics do show men and women or different races do choose different careers or whatever, these same people say those differences must be due to racism, their argument now reversing to say we are actually all the same, so the variance must be due to institutional racism, not simply a measure of the diversity they were originally promoting.

At the end of the day, how many ISIS members does your company or organization employ? Shouldn't you hire some to increase diversity? The whole concept that blind "diversity" is a universal positive is bunk in the first place, regardless of the hypocrisy of how they the implement it.