All Episodes
Previous Next
May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
07:30
Silicon Valley: A Shocking Lack of Diversity
|

Time Text
Tech Industry's Diversity Dilemma 00:07:20
Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
Amazon, the internet retailer, is the latest tech company to release shameful employment statistics on race.
Jesse Jackson had been haranguing Amazon since May, and in September he threatened"action" if the company wouldn't fess up to how few blacks it hires.
Now we know the dismal truth.
71% of Amazon's managers are white and 18% are Asian.
Only 4% are Hispanic and only 4% are black.
Unlike other tech companies, Amazon wouldn't even say how many of its engineers are black or Hispanic.
Those numbers would probably have been even more scandalous.
"I am disappointed," says Jesse.
All the companies that have coughed up numbers on tech workers have disappointed the Reverend even more.
Here's Facebook.
53% of the programmers are white and 41% are Asian.
Hispanics are a measly 3% and blacks are just 1%.
Well, Facebook is very sorry.
We have a long way to go, but we're absolutely committed to achieving greater diversity.
Says Maxine Williams, the company's global director of diversity.
Here are the numbers for Yahoo's technical workers: Whites are 35%, Asians 57%, Hispanics 3%, and Blacks 1%.
And then finally, here are Google's figures for tech worker diversity: 60% White, 34% Asian, 2% Hispanic, and just 1% Black.
In all these companies, about 85% of the techies are men.
Another horrifying fact.
Google is very sorry, too.
It gives every employee diversity training to help uncover hidden biases, and it assigns what it calls"Googlers in Residence" to black colleges so that they can recruit blacks full-time.
But it's the same sad story all across Silicon Valley.
A lamentable lack of blacks, Hispanics, and women.
As Jesse Jackson will tell you, this is proof of discrimination.
But it's an odd kind of discrimination.
As you'll have noticed, but as the hand-wringers never seem to notice, there must be very sharp discrimination in favor of Asians.
Given their percentages in the American population, when it comes to high-tech jobs, An Asian is seven times more likely than a white to be working at Google.
At Facebook, Asians are ten times more likely to get these jobs, and at Yahoo they are 21 times more likely than whites to be engineers or programmers.
Tech companies are silent about this shocking discrimination, and not one has promised to correct it.
But when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, the industry sees a crisis.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook says,"I'm not satisfied with the numbers.
We've been working hard for quite some time to improve them." Mitch Kapoor, the legendary creator of Lotus 1-2-3, frets about"fixing Silicon Valley's diversity problems." His wife, Freda,
shown with him here, complains that Silicon Valley is"steeped in the pernicious myth of the meritocracy." The pernicious myth.
But seriously, does anyone, even Jesse Jackson, really believe that there are thousands of first-rate lady programmers who are black and Mexican, but that the entire tech industry hires mediocre white and Asian guys instead?
Every company?
If there really were swarms of unemployed black and Hispanic tech wizards out there begging for work, I bet you could hire them for something less than the prevailing Silicon Valley pay rates.
Maybe way less.
How come we've never heard of a single company snapping up all this desperate cut-rate talent and then making boom-time profits?
And if the tech billionaires are secret racists, they sure do a good job of hiding it.
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Facebook, Gave $100 million to the overwhelmingly black Newark School District.
But his company shuts out blacks and Hispanics?
Yahoo! is run by a woman, Marissa Mayer.
Even as a big-time executive, she mentored children at East Palo Alto Charter School, which has hardly any white students at all.
She a secret bigot?
Bill Gates has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on African children.
Is Microsoft run by closet white supremacists?
I guess so.
We're supposed to believe that the whole industry discriminates shamelessly against blacks and Hispanics but, oddly, discriminates in favor of Asians.
It's baffling.
Google's Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Nancy Lee, is determined to solve the problem but doesn't know what causes it.
As she explains, There's a tremendous curiosity within our workforce about why we look the way we do.
Well, Nancy, let me explain it to you.
Asians are better at programming than whites.
Whites are better at it than Hispanics.
Hispanics are better at it than blacks.
And men are better at it than women.
And, Nancy, I don't mean to shock you, but the evidence is overwhelming that these differences are innate, genetic.
That is why every single high-tech company looks just like yours.
Silicon Valley is packed with smart people.
Are we supposed to believe that not one in the whole industry has figured out that Asians make better engineers than blacks?
Phooey. Plenty of them know.
They're just too frightened to say so.
It would be great if the CEO of Apple would quote IQ studies.
When he's asked, how come there are no blacks on the iPhone 7 design team?
But I'm afraid that's fantasy.
But wouldn't it be refreshing if just one high-tech exec would say, first of all, Jesse, it's none of your business who we hire.
We hire the best people we can, and if they turn out to be white and Asian, get used to it.
Now, buzz off.
More fantasy, I suppose.
Maybe someday a Chinese CEO or an Indian will say that, but a white man?
No chance.
I Hate Admitting 00:00:21
White people have let themselves be so browbeaten and demoralized that they refuse to admit even the most obvious facts if they violate racial orthodoxy.
They'd rather look fools than step out of line and tell the truth.
I hate ever to admit that Eric Holder is right, but he's right about one thing.
Export Selection