By fringe backlash, I meant to reference programs like "Girls who code", "Black Girls Code", internship programs for under-represented groups, and the like.
I'm 100% supportive of these programs, while being opposed to quota-based hiring models.
I'm 100% supportive of these programs, while being opposed to quota-based hiring models.
These are fringe concerns?
Fuck me then I guess.
Just wondering though: Are we assuming that the youth are too stupid to notice what we're doing? Or are we assuming they already know the score well enough to bite their tongues when we deliberately foist more of their parents culture war into their faces?
Were you not exposed to hamfisted intervention programs growing up?
They say that you never notice the propaganda that works, and I think there are lots of programs that are just outright good that even a cynic can't cut down, but I remember lots of insulting messaging baked into "lets fix X" initiatives too.
“Girls who code” and similar programs don’t strike me as the 2020s version of the war on drugs, though.
But railing against any of the bootcamps you named above would be career suicide.