To put it mildly he is a gaseous airbag with leech-like tendencies. I dislike him and how he stands for issues that do not matter in technological progress. If everyone worked remotely with only avatars as interfaces for other people he would have no legs to stand on.
You mean people who are into imperative, object oriented programming vs. functional programming? People who prefer to use IDEs vs. people who stick to plain editors? People who prefer loose, dynamic typing vs. people who prefer the safety of strong static typing?
Oh no never mind, you're focusing on shallow attributes and calling it "diversity" because it acts as a weak proxies to diversity in ideas.
Right now we have a few a huge push for getting more women involved, which is awesome! But I'm really happy that Jesse Jackson is here to remind us that here is more than one kind of diversity.
Yeah, there's the kind of diversity that involves donating to the Rainbow Coalition if you don't want a bunch of assholes giving press conferences about how racist you are.