Apparently Democrats dragged Mark Zuckerberg in front of a hearing this morning to question him about diversity and one Democrat was particularly incredulous that Zuckerberg couldn’t give LGBT and minority stats off the top of his head:
.@RepAlGreen is incredulous Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know how many staffers working on Libra are LGBT pic.twitter.com/K6AJXFIZlp
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 23, 2019
How exactly is Zuckerberg supposed to know how many LGBT people are in this Libra association? It’s made up of 21 companies and last I checked, sexuality was not something that companies kept on record.
Just a bizarre line of question if you ask me. But it didn’t stop there.
Maxine Waters also made a point to bring up the fact that Facebook’s upper management is mostly white:
Rep. Waters to Zuckerberg: "Since Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Push Coalition called upon Silicon Valley companies to release its diversity statistics more than five years ago, the representation of African-Americans and Hispanics has increased by less than 2 percent.” pic.twitter.com/Tet0W9xhEH
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 23, 2019
The hearing was supposed to focus on Zuckerberg’s cryptocurrency he calls Libra. But I guess forcing Zuckerberg to hire people based on skin color is more important to Democrats.