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Ape diversity chief out after claiming diversity isn't limited to race
https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-just-six-months/?a=2
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There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.
“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT."
So she's gone. Irony is she's black.
She made an idiotic comment.
Diversity is about the human experience, but arguing that a room of 12 White, blue-eyed, and blond men are"diverse" means she does not understand, at a fundamental level, what her job is... Her job is to reach out to groups that don't fit that description, because they are under-represented in the tech industry and because there is value in having a diverse workforce.
Does it mean she's wrong to say that a bunch of White men are a diverse group? No, not necessarily in a general sense; but in the context of her job description, yes, she's wrong.
This isn't really hard to understand unless we want it to be.