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This is just one problem of playing the identity politics game, you won't win. Now any firing of a Back person will be seen as a hostile move, regardless of whether or not it was warranted. You have the Twitter mob decide for you that those firings were wrong regardless of evidence.

How about go back to hiring people for their merit, instead of filling up "diversity slots"?

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Timnit Gebru was famous before her firing, partially for papers on addressing bias in machine learning algorithms -- which makes it a juicy story.

You can sleep soundly knowing that most black people, lacking her fame, well have bad experiences at the FANGs and no one will give f*ck.

Every diversity thread on HN goes like this one

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