Now, first of all,

I wanna say I did not really want

to make this video about anti-diversity

because I believe

that the intentions behind there are good.

However, I feel that we have gone too far

and I wanted to do a follow up video

on the manifesto video

that I did a few days ago about

how tech has become hostile

to certain types of people.

See after I posted that video,

I started getting some tweets from other people

and I did some more research into this

and I realized

that there's a lot more discrimination

in this field than I had thought.

And that's really disturbing to me.

And I know some people will say,

I'm one of the privileged people.

When you're privileged,

then equality feels like oppression.

No, this isn't really about me anymore.

This is about future generations.

My son, for example,

I would like him to get into tech as well.

And I'm just imagining this field

that can be very hostile to him

and other people like him as well.

So let me show you what I found

and I want you to keep an open mind about this.

Diversity, it's a very delicate subject to talk about.

It triggers a lot of people immediately

and I feel that if we can not even discuss

whether the approach is right

without somebody blowing up in your face,

then I think that's going

to lead us down a tenuous path.

And I want to preface this by saying

I support everybody get into tech.

I think that we can all learn the skill

but it should be a meritocracy.

So let's get into the first piece here.

So somebody sent me this screenshot

for an Oracle summer internship

that lists a bunch of eligibility requirements

like a GPA, computer science degree.

And then this says explicitly

that you must be African American,

Latino, Native American and/or a woman.

And that just seems pretty racist and sexist to me.

It excludes so many different types of people.

Not to mention it's also requiring you

to be a sophomore.

To me that sounds like age discrimination.

Now, regardless of moralities,

if you're to take a look

at the Civil rights Code Section 703 it says,

"It shall be unlawful employment practice

"for any employer to fail or refuse

"to hire any individual

"because of such individuals race, color,

"religion, sex or national origin".

So here's my problem with this.

The way I had to understood diversity programs was

that they would be for students

for underrepresented minorities

and they will not be in any employment capacity,

no internships, no full time jobs.

Because I believe that this is illegal by the way.

But if you wanna teach high school students

how to code,

if you wanna engage

with elementary school students

and get them more interested in STEM topics,

then that sounds perfectly good to me.

Just widen up that funnel.

But as soon as we started talking about internships,

internships, especially tech internships,

as say Facebook, Google, Oracle,

any of these tech companies,

they are so valuable.

Having an internship on your resume

is essentially a key

into a full time position.

And an opportunity like that,

especially if it is paid.

And offers you real-world work experience.

I don't believe that we should

be discriminated on that.

I believe it excludes too many people.

It's not fair.

It is not meritocracy,

and it may be illegal as well,

where the public and society have deemed

that this type of discrimination

on key opportunities simply should not be acceptable.

Now thinking in a little bit more,

I also noticed that we've got Facebook University

and Google STEP,

which is student training

in the engineering program.

But if you read the descriptions,

both of these programs,

they explicitly say

that they are internships, paid internships.

And so I find myself wondering,

well, why don't we just have internships

where we explicitly list certain races

and genders in which we'll accept

and which we won't accept.

And, I have the suspicion

that perhaps that these programs,

these diversity programs

are thinly veiled internships just

to skirt around the law of employment.

To me, it's kind of a loophole.

So when I posted about this on Twitter,

I got a bunch of responses,

but some of the responses really shocked me.

One of the responses was

from the leaders of BlackTechTwitter

and she said,

"I'm happy those are the eligibility requirements

"and all of you are mad about it

"well I don't care lol".

Someone else replies,

"Please find more of these,

"I would like to post them to my friends

"and colleagues so that they can apply".

And they justified this by saying that,

"It's illegal because up until now institutions

"were discriminating on gender and ethnicity

"and they wanted to change that".

So now, it's essentially reverse discrimination

and that was not what this movement

I thought was going to be about.

I thought it was about that firstly equality

and creating a better world for all of us.

Me and my children included,

not at our expense.

And then someone sent me this link to WomenHack

where they offer invite only events focused

on connecting top female engineers,

designers and product managers

with opportunities at diversity first companies,

you have to apply for an invitation

and you can meet a bunch of companies,

top tier tech companies like Facebook,

Oracle, Google, Lyft, Square, Asana.

And honestly once you allow discrimination,

the sword really cuts both ways.

I found this other internship

which only allows Indians,

H-1B visa Indians,

and they're only looking

for these types of people

for iOS engineering roles.

And so when I think about our children,

let's imagine someone has a white male son

and then they adopt a black daughter

and they're raising these two kids

at the same time in parallel,

these kids are not going

to have equal opportunities

and it's going to be strange.

The white male son won't be excluded

from virtually every coding curriculum,

bootcamp, internship, job fair training program,

events, conferences, parties, everything.

This white male son won't be excluded

and they may just make tech feel unwelcoming

and hostile to him,

especially when it is so unbalanced

in terms of the programs that were offered.

There's virtually no program out there

for any other type of person.

And of course there are

so many different types of people out

there in the world.

What about the underprivileged, poor, white and Asian males,

the Canadians, the Indonesians,

Philippines, Brazilians, Italians.

And if we're looking for diversity of thought

because we believe that diversity brings value

into the workplace.

What's to say that you can imagine some Chinese boy

who gets adopted into some black family,

he grows up with the culture

and he may have a better understanding

of the black culture

and what it can bring to modern tech society

than even say a black person who grows up

in just suburban white Kansas.

So my concern is not about

whether diversity is good or bad.

It's great, it would be great

to see more different types of people,

but it is about the approach

in which we are taking

that leaves out a lot of people,

not to mention in this day and age

where identity is so fluid,

you may have many women self identifying as males

and then they would automatically disqualify themselves

from such programs.

You may have people

who have only an ounce

of native American blood identifying themselves

as native American.

There may even be half races

where it's not really even clear anymore

and perhaps over time,

everybody's going to just get all mixed up anyways.

And I know some people will say

that I'm just another privileged Asian male

and I can't recognize that,

but I'm not really sure

what privilege you're talking about.

I grinded for 10 years applying

to Google every single year,

getting denied each time until I finally got in.

I sat in front of a computer for hours

by myself learning how to code

and then once I got into Google I hustled understanding

to code better than anybody else

until I earned the role of Technical Lead.

I was not just handed any of this stuff.

And as far as privilege goes,

research actually shows the opposite

where there's systemic bias

in favor of underrepresented minorities.

And so I think the issue we have here

as far as gender goes at least is

that the gender gap begins far before people even get

into these companies before they're applying to the jobs.

Even in high school,

only 27% of all students taking

the computer science exam were females

and then by the time they get to college,

only 18% of computer science degrees go to women.

Now this doesn't actually have anything

to do with ability.

According to research,

The Gender-Equality Paradox,

"Girls performed about as well

"or better than boys on science in most countries,

"and in almost all countries,

"girls would have been capable of college level science

"and math if they had enrolled in them".

So the researchers actually assert

that when women are empowered,

they actually go towards non-STEM degrees

because they feel they're even better in that

than computer science,

they claimed that,

"Some would say that the gender STEM gap occurs

"not because girls can't do science,

"but because they have other alternatives based

"on their strengths and verbal skills".

"In wealthy nations,

"they believe they have the freedom

"to pursue those alternatives

"and not worry so much that they pay less".

So as I see it,

if we really want to tackle this issue,

we need to be looking earlier

in the pipeline like at junior high

and high school students