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I think people are unconvinced that applying affirmative action to tech hiring addresses or chips away at that much broader problem.

Especially when they're not the ones oppressing anyone. And double-especially if we're hiring people who are unqualified and uninterested in tech just to pad the diversity stats. I'm here to do stuff. I care about broader social issues too, but I go to work to code.

Not trying to strawman or misrepresent you -- just saying that the connection from tech hiring to things that happened before the invention of the transistor isn't necessarily self-evident to everyone.

I asked a very specific question... your progressive buzzwords aren't answers.

Well, the implications are unpleasant for a lot of us