<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Al for the record, NYCR has promoted since day one balance in gender to the best of it's ability and specifically recruited from outside of tech. This has been a very good thing for us.<br><br>
</div>But first and foremost has always been whether or not you jive well with the community, and the culture. <br><br></div><div>Also way to promote some false stereo types there to excuse your own bigotry. I lolled.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Al Billings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank">albill@openbuddha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>I did a quick edit to summarize what you said, Matt.</div><div><br></div><div>The rest of us want gender, racially, and many other kinds of diversity in the groups of people who hack and don’t think it should be limited to fat, white engineers with asperger’s.</div>
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<p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 4:21 PM, matt wrote:</p>
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</div><div><blah blah blah white guys only is just fine because they deserve it and we should never make a point in diversifying it because I like it just fine since I’m white and male or whatever you want to fill in here></div>
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