Good luck seeing any of that if you're not from a good enough school or happen to not be a white dude
White people are underrepresented at Google in the US, if you go by general demographics [1] [2]. This is probably not the best way to think about it, as there are many other variables, but it's also not at all compatible with "Google only hires white dudes".
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-e...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
And now I'm a bit over the "it's okay to be a confrontational asshole as long as I'm calling it being assertive/justly indignant/fighting for social justice while complaining that people treat me worse because I'm not white" shtick.
Sometimes it's justly and righteously asserting yourself, or fighting against racism, sexism, or homophobia. Sometimes it's just being a contrary asshole and hiding behind these social issues as cover for acting like an asshole. And it's okay to not like people who do that. These tweets scream that there is more to the story that isn't being told, and likely never will be.
do you mean asian? They're ~5% of the US population and ~42% of google's population according to the other user's link. Meanwhile blacks, hispanics, and whites have significant underrepresentation
Just because they are overrepresented doesn't mean that they are the only, or proportionately most, overrepresented (though I do think you point out an important factor in toxic white attitudes in tech; the fact that there are non-Whites that are also, and possibly more , overrepresented in tech, including tech leadership, than Whites makes those Whites who are inculturated to be prone to racial insecurity particularly insecure.)
It’s possible for that to be true in a global or more high level context, e.g., “the tech industry as a whole,” and at the same time be far from the truth, say, at Google. And it’s reasonable and appropriate—and not at all a sign of white insecurity—to point that out.
For my part, the worst sort of person in this discussion is the white person who puts on a facade of wokeness or racial sensitivity without admitting the possibility that the world isn’t, as it were, black and white.
Is over-representation something that should be combated in all cases or only if the over-represented group is labeled by the woke as "white"? Can or can't you be racist to someone who is "white"? Does this apply universally or only in the western hemisphere. Are the Chinese "white"? Only in China perhaps? What about the Uyghurs or the Jews are they "white"? What about in China or Israel?
Not really the message, but at least you read some of it :)