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Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

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80 points churchill | 2 comments | 01 May 23 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mkl95 ◴[01 May 23 14:40 UTC] No.35773392[source]▶
Sounds a bit like the "cultural fit" narrative that has been used by some FAANG companies to prefer people from certain ethnicities
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GreedClarifies ◴[01 May 23 14:58 UTC] No.35773674[source]▶
Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
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7speter ◴[01 May 23 15:03 UTC] No.35773769[source]▶
As someone who is seemingly not from a preferred racial demo, I know exactly what this person is talking about.
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GreedClarifies ◴[01 May 23 15:09 UTC] No.35773867[source]▶
Really?

Tech was predominantly white (as was the US) in the 70s, by the 90s Asians and Indians were over represented.

I'll submit this is prima facie evidence that tech was (and is to some degree) highly meritocratic, and more so than any other large portion of the economy.

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1. rexpop ◴[01 May 23 16:11 UTC] No.35774904[source]▶
> by the 90s Asians and Indians were over represented

That's evidence of US tech industry's massive racism factor: that our endemic Black and Latino populations (40%) are underrepresented while this clear minority of Asian Americans (6%) are elevated?

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2. mkl95 ◴[01 May 23 17:51 UTC] No.35776532[source]▶
It's like these people have forgotten there are non white and non Asian people in tech. I wonder why.