Maybe just because a population has a particular makeup in terms of percent of minorities and genders doesn't mean that exact make up will be represented at every grouping in society. Just like the NBA doesn't represent the USAs actual makeup in class, race, gender, either. Did they inherit discrimination or just replicate it? Or is this a stupid question to begin with?
So unless you want to actively go out and discriminate positively and force certain hirings and situations, you aren't going to be living in some theoretical utopia. Maybe silicon valley just hired who it thought was best 20 years ago, rather than based on some inclusivity quota. And therefore it ended up as it did. Not because it was malicious or discriminative, or evil, it just happened that way.
You might think that is evil, but that is more of a political point and an opinion than fact.
Sigh... rant over, queue the downvotes, this is HN after all.
So unless you want to actively go out and discriminate positively and force certain hirings and situations, you aren't going to be living in some theoretical utopia. Maybe silicon valley just hired who it thought was best 20 years ago, rather than based on some inclusivity quota. And therefore it ended up as it did. Not because it was malicious or discriminative, or evil, it just happened that way.
You might think that is evil, but that is more of a political point and an opinion than fact.
Sigh... rant over, queue the downvotes, this is HN after all.