Facebook blames staff diversity problems on lack of available talent

There is a ....disturbing....culture amongst minority groups. It's most common amongst very poor urban black populations, but affects all groups.

They value street cred over education. I see it every day. Kids throw away huge opportunities to leapfrog 2-4 years over their peers, through things like career tech programs and early college courses (that are FREE). Instead they screw around, and only care about what their crew/gang/group of friends is doing. they see education as THE MAN, and think they are resisting influence by ignoring it.

then you see the students that do try, and get bullied for it. You see bright young black students bullied relentlessly because they do their homework, or listen to the teacher, or refuse to take part in shenanigans. It's depressing, and very common.

Like I said, it affects all groups, but black populations in school are most affected, with hispanics to a lesser degree. It's much rarer to see that in Caucasian or Asian students, quite the opposite. And there is only so much the school can do to help, since this extends outside of school, and deep into the communities themselves.

So I actually believe Zuck here. If the students in high school dont care and barely graduate, how many of them will come to their senses, shape up their life a bit, and actually apply to college or to a trade school. And of those that do, how many will actually be accepted, amongst the competition from tons of good students that didnt screw around and hang out with the wrong groups? It's a self-serving cycle, that keeps repeating itself constantly.
You should see what they did in chicago. A jewish mayor emmanuel closed 80 of their public schools.
 
Very liberal teacher unions by and large in the US control and oversee the deteriorating public school system. Yet these same liberals claim the lack of intelligent American graduates forces them to look overseas for employees.
 
Dude, you need to take off your tinfoil hat and realize the world is not run by 19th century Christians. You dont need to be christian to be a decent human being. There is no government conspiracy to make people "less christian", rather this is what happens in a world that has free access to information, with a greater capability for people to make informed decisions. The young generations are fed up with religion's BS, and are leaving in droves. Largely because of uninformed comments like yours.


Without morals, respect, manors...all of which come from parents, and those raised in faith, humans have descended into savages. When we threw out religion, threw out families, things went to hell & a handbasket.
The problem with the youth, as I suspect you are, is they know no other way. It's how they have been raised from birth.
No religion, no respect, no manners. Government run education tells them Christianity is a "false religion" and that the only good "religion" is government. How's that working out?
 
And people are surprised that the level of poverty, "diversity" and violence is so high? We did it to ourselves by upsetting the NATURAL order of human life.
While I agree with you, it's also true that humans can't stay with nature's ways if they want to progress their technology and stuff so fast. Our fault there is that we coudn't develop rules for harmony of all the living things. Well, or we actually did, but we don't follow them. But, as saying goes, if you never try, you will never succed.
If we were to stay with nature, inventing "work" and "workforce" was a total failure. The amount of stress that work gives to any animal is unforgivable. We could just stay at forests eating fruits.
Also, I am currently reading Desmond Morris' "The naked ape". Easy read, recommend.
 
I love the comments here. Now I see why facebook or tech companies don't hire minorities. We have deep seated racism here in the US. Just look at the comments. When whites can't find job its because of bad trade deals or immigration. When blacks can't find jobs its because they're too stupid.

These companies well never hire minorities based on protests or public comments like in this forum. Its only one way to change them and to change this backward racist as country.

So, if your analysis is correct, then how did we get a Black president with all Black cabinet and other top government posts??? BTW, did you watch the Republican Convention last (Tuesday) night and see/hear the long clapping, whistling, etc. when Dr. Ben Carson took the podium. Most of the deligates were Caucasian, so where is THEIR racism? Also, the republican party at one time tried to get Gen. Colin Powell to run on their ticket for president. Is that racism? You have been taken in by the career race-baiters, Jackson and Sharpton. They literally live off of promoting that there's rampant racism in the U.S. Are you aware that Chicago has had a complete Democrat regime for decades, and has the strictest gun laws in America, and yet the highest murder rate in America, and it's BLACK KILLING OTHER BLACKS? Please...educate yourself!!!
 
Every good person on this planet has something to give to benefit every person, business, corporation, institution etc; in society but the problem is that their special talents can not, or never will be able to be taught in schools or universities.
If any business, corporation, institution etc; Facebook included choose to only employ people with a certain skin color and piece of paper with university qualifications written all over it, or references of the highest order, then that organization's owners/managers do not have a successful business in terms of care, compassion, equality, respect and love of life, the one and only life for every good person on this planet, then the organization needs a massive reshuffle to destroy the greed, the bigger is better, the smarter is better, the rich man, poor man attitude.
The best computer operator, programmer, technician in the world is generally not the best, most loyal employee in the world.
What a ridiculous world we live in when a person who makes coffee has to prove, with a certificate, that they can make good coffee before obtaining employment.
All the above is why the world is in a mess, even a bigger mess is blindingly obvious when looking into the political arena. None of them are smart enough to efficiently run a lemonade stall at the side of the road on a hot day.
 
The US is around 70%+ white and facebook, an american company, has 50% white employees.
Where's the problem ?
People will only think a company is diverse enough when there are no white people.
Anti white racism has risen quite a lot lately.
 
something the company blames on the US public education system
The US public education system ruined my creativity and also caused me to develop autistic symptoms along with other mental issues.

I fully agree with blaming them for a lot of the issues with society.
 
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