General Discussion

But you're right about mediocre white men looking for someone to blame. As a mediocre white male myself, I work to be keenly aware that I have gotten lucky and that maybe, just maybe, I don't deserve everything I have gotten, so I appreciate it more.

I hear this in the work place all the time, it's more passive aggressive than before though and comes in the form of people being more critical of women and minority leaders. One of the engineering leads is a black woman with an obvious black woman sounding name, every time her name comes up, you'll hear some bitter white man say something like, "Well, if that's what Tamika says, it will probably fix everything." And they accentuate her name like it's some scarlet letter. And she's done nothing to garner any disdain, she's only been in her job for a year and the dipshit she replaced was a complete trainwreck of an old white guy who bet the division's future on a ridulously unlikely contract pursuit we had almost no chance of winning. That guy retired with a golden parachute when we didn't win the multi year pursuit we spent $10s of millions of dollars on.

Diversity makes compainies more competitive, period! Most large corporations actually believe this and have realized gains because they have worked for it. And it's about more than just having diverse views to recognize risks and opportinuties, it's actually more about not overlooking the best people. Too often the best people aren't getting the promotion in favor of some mediocre guy managers are more comfortable because they look like them.