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Yes, and a dozen or two people, mostly white males, control the company.

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I'm not sure what the implication here is, but regardless it doesn't seem to be true.

According to this source, only 3 of the 10 "key people" are white and male.

https://craft.co/alphabet/executives

Board members don't have the direct control that you think. Neither do all the C-level officers. It's a basic fact of organizations that people that make the key decisions aren't necessarily the ones with the titles.

> mostly white males

What is this supposed to imply, exactly?

An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are.

It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.

It boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy.

I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.

Yeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.

I never said they were racist. What does it mean that someone would assume I meant that?

It probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.

Is Sundar Pichai a white male?

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