Racism And Meritocracy

Unless you?ve been living under a rock, you can?t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: ?All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must be racist.? The other responds, ?Silicon Valley is a colorblind meritocracy. If there were qualified women or minority candidates, we?d welcome them.? I?d like to say a few words about this, but I want to do so under special ground rules. I want to make an argument, step by step, that I hope will convince you to care about this issue, but that doesn?t presuppose that you already agree that diversity is important. And it will explain how it is possible for both sides to be mostly correct ? and that we still have a problem.

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