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The left wants you to add women to your team for the sake of adding women to your team, but they don't want you to _say_ that you're adding women to your team for the sake of adding women to your team.


The left wants you to add women to your team to make the world a better place.


So is it OK to say, "We want you to join our team to make the world a better place"? I think not.

Ever since I was a kid I tended to hang out with the girls in the neighborhood; I enjoy female company. But hiring should be about fairness. If you tend to hire from the top 25% of the Stanford or Berkeley graduating classes and those sets are 30% female, then by golly, why aren't 30% of your hires female? But if that's not the case, and you're giving more slots to women than there are precentage-wise in the pool of candidates, you're treating someone unfairly who has worked very hard to get where he is.




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