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DNC: White Men Shouldn't Apply for Tech Jobs

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In an email seeking job applicants for various positions, the IT Manager for the Democratic National Committee stated that straight white males need not apply:

DNC: White men shouldn't apply for tech jobs | Fox News

White men need not apply.

That’s the message from a Democratic National Committee data services manager, currently on the hunt to filll multiple vacancies in the tech department.

The political organization, which routinely makes grand statements about inclusion, recently sent an email to its employees looking to recruit people for eight open spots including IT Systems Administrator, Product Manager and Chief Security Officer.


Though the Oct. 30 email says that the DNC is looking for a “staff of diverse voices and life experiences,” it apparently doesn’t mean white men.

DNC’s Data Service Manager Madeleine Leader purportedly wrote in an email that the desire for diversity excludes “cisgender straight white males.”

Leader adds, “I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, as they are already in the majority.”

Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned to at birth.
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So basically, the Democratic Party has such a strong culture against racism and discrimination, that they feel quite comfortable in openly practicing - wait for it - racism and discrimination.

Not being a white male myself, I just want to understand how this party is able to get anything useful done, when they're putting so much effort into reinforcing prejudices into each other.
 
If true, all I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHA ****ing morons running the DNC.

I mean, you probably have to have at least one "cis gendered" (whatever the **** that is) straight white male because then they become part of the diversity.
 
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
 
sanman said:
In an email seeking job applicants for various positions, the IT Manager for the Democratic National Committee stated that straight white males need not apply:

DNC: White men shouldn't apply for tech jobs | Fox News




So basically, the Democratic Party has such a strong culture against racism and discrimination, that they feel quite comfortable in openly practicing - wait for it - racism and discrimination.

Not being a white male myself, I just want to understand how this party is able to get anything useful done, when they're putting so much effort into reinforcing prejudices into each other.
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Exactly my first thought at well. The credibility destroying irony is just too think to cut with a knife.

Luftwaffe said:
If true, all I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHA ****ing morons running the DNC.

I mean, you probably have to have at least one "cis gendered" (whatever the **** that is) straight white male because then they become part of the diversity.
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Yeah, morons. Or at least one moron who might very well be fired already.
 
Cardinal said:
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
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Which is illegal.
 
Luftwaffe said:
If true, all I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHA ****ing morons running the DNC.

I mean, you probably have to have at least one "cis gendered" (whatever the **** that is) straight white male because then they become part of the diversity.
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If true?...Sounds like Fake news put out by Russian Hackers to get Right Wingers mad......The Right Wing types fall for this crap everytime..Pathetic
 
Cardinal said:
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
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Maybe at failed businesses, successful ones pick the best person regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation
 
Cardinal said:
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
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Shouldn't the qualifications be to not get hacked?

If the DNC had qualified people in the tech department..... maybe they wouldn't be in the situation they are in now.
 
Cardinal said:
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
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So your talking about using racism to trying to get all your demographics to look like a Pepsi commercial.... gotchya!
 
celticwar17 said:
So your talking about using racism to trying to get all your demographics to look like a Pepsi commercial.... gotchya!
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People need to understand when you work at a tech company, the good ones, they run like well-oiled machines. You see some engineers at Microsoft or Google, and its like they are robots.

Tech companies don't have time or money to waste on social experiments. If white men are the most qualified, then the company should just hire all white men. Diversity quotas are not helpful for these companies. That's why in Silicon Valley the majority of workers are white males.

The question people should be asking is why aren't more females applying for these jobs? It really starts in the beginning. Girls in this country aren't interested in tech when they young. That's not how they are wired. Western women are more neurotic/scattered brain and don't have the discipline to be in that field.
 
I hear that the DNC is soooo hostile to cis white men working in their tech department, that they actually, wait for it.... hired mostly cis white men to work in their tech department. Unbelievable what cis white men have to put up with in our society.
 
Bucky said:
People need to understand when you work at a tech company, the good ones, they run like well-oiled machines. You see some engineers at Microsoft or Google, and its like they are robots.

Tech companies don't have time or money to waste on social experiments. If white men are the most qualified, then the company should just hire all white men. Diversity quotas are not helpful for these companies. That's why in Silicon Valley the majority of workers are white males.

The question people should be asking is why aren't more females applying for these jobs? It really starts in the beginning. Girls in this country aren't interested in tech when they young. That's not how they are wired. Western women are more neurotic/scattered brain and don't have the discipline to be in that field.
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But be a woman who is good at tech and Maybe you can be the next Marrisa Mayer and make $79,000/hour assuming a 50 hour week or whatever the number was....as you fail big at management.

Nice work if you can get it.
 
sanman said:
In an email seeking job applicants for various positions, the IT Manager for the Democratic National Committee stated that straight white males need not apply:

DNC: White men shouldn't apply for tech jobs | Fox News




So basically, the Democratic Party has such a strong culture against racism and discrimination, that they feel quite comfortable in openly practicing - wait for it - racism and discrimination.

Not being a white male myself, I just want to understand how this party is able to get anything useful done, when they're putting so much effort into reinforcing prejudices into each other.
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A data services manager speaks for the entire committee? That is some serious reaching by Fox "News" and the OP.
 
Phys251 said:
A data services manager speaks for the entire committee? That is some serious reaching by Fox "News" and the OP.
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I would guess the DNC Tech department has some pretty unqualified people. Probably worse than the people running Equifax.
 
Bucky said:
I would guess the DNC Tech department has some pretty unqualified people. Probably worse than the people running Equifax.
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That deflection does not even remotely address my concern.
 
exoplanet said:
I hear that the DNC is soooo hostile to cis white men working in their tech department, that they actually, wait for it.... hired mostly cis white men to work in their tech department. Unbelievable what cis white men have to put up with in our society.
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Gee, you mean those people hired to work in their tech deparment were hired specifically because of their skin color and gender, in spite of them lacking the appropriate qualifications to do their job? Wow, the DNC then needs to change their hiring process.

And if that hiring process is a reflection of their politics, then they should change their politics.
 
Athanasius68 said:
Which is illegal.
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Crovax said:
Maybe at failed businesses, successful ones pick the best person regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation
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Bucky said:
Shouldn't the qualifications be to not get hacked?

If the DNC had qualified people in the tech department..... maybe they wouldn't be in the situation they are in now.
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celticwar17 said:
So your talking about using racism to trying to get all your demographics to look like a Pepsi commercial.... gotchya!
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I guess you'd all prefer this sort of thing instead.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...mailers-target-asian-school-board-candidates/
 
Anonymous source fake news media biased ;)
 
sanman said:
Gee, you mean those people hired to work in their tech deparment were hired specifically because of their skin color and gender, in spite of them lacking the appropriate qualifications to do their job?
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um no. I can't make any sense out of this statement. I assume there's some sarcasm involved, but there are so many potential strawmen implied, it's hard to see how it relates to what I said.

There is no reason to assume that encouraging diversity means hiring unqualified people. Generally speaking, there are multiple qualified applicants for most positions and the standards for differentiating between them are not objective to say the least. My guess is that the people working at the DNC are probably as qualified as any tech department offering similar pay and benefits and that if they actually made an effort to find qualified individuals that are a little bit different, they could find them.
 
Cardinal said:
Every single business tries to maintain some level of diversity, which can be difficult when one race is already a majority (white) and when a specific gender tends to dominate a sector (males in tech). Since they already had a white male majority, they were trying to find other demographics.

In other words, what goes on everywhere all the time.
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Isn't that a shame? Hopefully we will judge by character, attitude and qualification instead of the color of skin..some day.
 
Lovebug said:
Isn't that a shame? Hopefully we will judge by character, attitude and qualification instead of the color of skin..some day.
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The problem is that, even all qualifications being equal, being a minority will work against you for really basic mathematical reasons. If an office has a finite number of openings (and it always will), then the majority of applicants will be the majority demographic. In that scenario, since the openings are finite then the odds are in favor of the openings being filled before you ever get a seat in the interview room.
 
exoplanet said:
um no. I can't make any sense out of this statement. I assume there's some sarcasm involved, but there are so many potential strawmen implied, it's hard to see how it relates to what I said.

There is no reason to assume that encouraging diversity means hiring unqualified people. Generally speaking, there are multiple qualified applicants for most positions and the standards for differentiating between them are not objective to say the least. My guess is that the people working at the DNC are probably as qualified as any tech department offering similar pay and benefits and that if they actually made an effort to find qualified individuals that are a little bit different, they could find them.
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Umm, you should re-read the post I was responding to. It was implying that hiring of white cisgendered males involves some kind of pampering or coddling of them.
 
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