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Doesn't the next sentence answer your question?



Because shouldn't matter if you're judging things by merit.


No, it doesn't.

All of a sudden, Asian people become a minority when it suits the narrative.

There are plenty of Asians (South and East) at all the tech companies being castigated for lack of ethnic diversity. You can't have it both ways.


The next sentence is about morale. I fail to see how your comment is relevant.


Because Asians are generally not considered minorities for purposes of diversity. Whether that's right or not is another subject.

Since they're not considered minorities, the lack of diversity and their ethnicity should not affect morale at all.


Ah, well that is certainly not what the article was claiming, or what the context of the quoted sentence is.

So whether or not your contention is correct, it is of no help to the original comment.


I could very well be wrong, but it is not my impression that Vietnamese are very prevalent in tech.


Not many at c-level positions.


The CEO of Nvidia is an Asian man. The CEO of Alphabet is an Asian man.



Hmmm... so if there are more of a particular minority (at other companies) than another then they don't count for diversity? Got it.

Wow... can't count women either, they are over half the population!... hmmM


No, there are more asians by percentage in tech companies than asians by percentage of the general population.

If asians count for diversity, there is no lack of diversity of tech companies. If asians don't count for diversity, then the author's point is invalid since it shouldn't matter to morale whether or not the fired person was white or asian.


   If asians count for diversity, there is no lack of diversity of tech companies.

This statement doesn't really make sense. By definition, no one group (or two for that matter) can "count for diversity", as "diversity" is the absence of such clustering.


The article implies that the lack of diversity, coupled with the fact that the CTO who is leaving could lower employee morale.

I don't know how else to parse that statement. If absence of such clustering is the meaning of "diversity", why would the departure of an ethnic CTO cause lowered morale?




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