The article tries to make everything about race and class, but fails. It features photos of a black man and white woman who failed to get jobs in tech. But it fails to show that white men did any better.
The only student referenced who did get a tech job has a Vietnamese name. And he goes to a school they refer to as higher-ranked. And he applied to far more companies than the other students.
Are we to conclude that this is evidence of racial and class privilege? Vietnamese Americans are not known for their generational wealth or family connections. And the article doesn't indicate that the successful student had any of either.
Only in the last sentence does the article admit that the black student still had an internship offer from the financial services firm that he interned at last summer. That sounds like a pretty good fallback option, and not indicative of a prejudiced hiring system.
> The article tries to make everything about race and class, but fails.
No, that was you. The article doesn't mention race except in these context:
"To try to broaden opportunities, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon and other large tech companies have over the years set up a variety of introductory internship or mentorship programs for first- and second-year college students. These programs are intended to provide students from groups that are underrepresented in tech — including female, Black, Latino and lower-income students — with hands-on experience working on engineering projects."
"In a recent interview, Vaishali Sabhahit, global head of university talent at Adobe, said the company typically received applications from more than 100,000 candidates for its summer internship program in the United States and hired about 600 interns. This year, the company started a separate internship program in cybersecurity with Bowie State University, a historically Black university in Maryland."
> It features photos of a black man and white woman who failed to get jobs in tech.
Not jobs, internships. And how does the photo of a white woman show it's about race?
> But it fails to show that white men did any better.
Again, the article wasn't about race. The title was literally about "Lower-Income Students".
Your comment goes on and on about race in a way that the article does not.
You've missed several references. Here's one, from the beginning of the article.
> “College itself is a huge workload, especially for minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status,” Mr. Ross said.
Also, if you think that putting "lower income" in the title and having a header photo of a black student isn't making this about race, I don't know what to say. There are also mentions of race and minorities throughout.
> You've missed several references. Here's one, from the beginning of the article.
> > “College itself is a huge workload, especially for minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status,” Mr. Ross said.
I stand corrected: I did miss that one reference. However, it doesn't appear that I missed several references.
> Also, if you think that putting "lower income" in the title and having a header photo of a black student isn't making this about race, I don't know what to say.
"I don't know what to say" is not an argument but rather a failure to make an argument.
> There are also mentions of race and minorities throughout.
> "I don't know what to say" is not an argument but rather a failure to make an argument.
This is also not an argument. The point is that you're trying very hard to miss the point. You're free to keep struggling to do so. I've seen you do the same in many other threads in the past!
1) You haven't explained how the photo of a white woman makes the article about race.
2) You haven't shown, which you easily could if it were true, that there are more than three mentions of race in the article, the two I quoted and the one you quoted.
3) You apparently want to transform "Lower-Income Students" into "Non-White Students" for some reason, but the article does not support that transformation. Yes, there was a photo of a black man at the top. Do you want to suggest that a black person cannot be photographed without making everything into race? I hope not, because that would itself seem kind of racist.
Your comment is very observant though. I think someone may have seen the phrase "lower-income" and a big image of a black man, then thought his culture was getting erased... lol
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 34.1 ms ] threadThe only student referenced who did get a tech job has a Vietnamese name. And he goes to a school they refer to as higher-ranked. And he applied to far more companies than the other students.
Are we to conclude that this is evidence of racial and class privilege? Vietnamese Americans are not known for their generational wealth or family connections. And the article doesn't indicate that the successful student had any of either.
Only in the last sentence does the article admit that the black student still had an internship offer from the financial services firm that he interned at last summer. That sounds like a pretty good fallback option, and not indicative of a prejudiced hiring system.
No, that was you. The article doesn't mention race except in these context:
"To try to broaden opportunities, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon and other large tech companies have over the years set up a variety of introductory internship or mentorship programs for first- and second-year college students. These programs are intended to provide students from groups that are underrepresented in tech — including female, Black, Latino and lower-income students — with hands-on experience working on engineering projects."
"In a recent interview, Vaishali Sabhahit, global head of university talent at Adobe, said the company typically received applications from more than 100,000 candidates for its summer internship program in the United States and hired about 600 interns. This year, the company started a separate internship program in cybersecurity with Bowie State University, a historically Black university in Maryland."
> It features photos of a black man and white woman who failed to get jobs in tech.
Not jobs, internships. And how does the photo of a white woman show it's about race?
> But it fails to show that white men did any better.
Again, the article wasn't about race. The title was literally about "Lower-Income Students".
Your comment goes on and on about race in a way that the article does not.
> “College itself is a huge workload, especially for minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status,” Mr. Ross said.
Also, if you think that putting "lower income" in the title and having a header photo of a black student isn't making this about race, I don't know what to say. There are also mentions of race and minorities throughout.
> > “College itself is a huge workload, especially for minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status,” Mr. Ross said.
I stand corrected: I did miss that one reference. However, it doesn't appear that I missed several references.
> Also, if you think that putting "lower income" in the title and having a header photo of a black student isn't making this about race, I don't know what to say.
"I don't know what to say" is not an argument but rather a failure to make an argument.
> There are also mentions of race and minorities throughout.
There are 3, which we've already covered.
This is also not an argument. The point is that you're trying very hard to miss the point. You're free to keep struggling to do so. I've seen you do the same in many other threads in the past!
2) You haven't shown, which you easily could if it were true, that there are more than three mentions of race in the article, the two I quoted and the one you quoted.
3) You apparently want to transform "Lower-Income Students" into "Non-White Students" for some reason, but the article does not support that transformation. Yes, there was a photo of a black man at the top. Do you want to suggest that a black person cannot be photographed without making everything into race? I hope not, because that would itself seem kind of racist.
Your comment is very observant though. I think someone may have seen the phrase "lower-income" and a big image of a black man, then thought his culture was getting erased... lol