Elon Musk blames diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike digital pandemic that stunted Microsoft services

[Windows Central]

While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to attack the latter's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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[John McIlhinney]

When you know your target audience cares nothing for evidence, you can make any claim you want.

 

[Arun Topez]

More tabloid non-sense from WC. Headline stating as fact, article and his posts say otherwise.
Headline "Elon Musk BLAMES diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike"
Article: "PERHAPS correlating the mass outage to CrowdStrike's DEI initiatives."

 

[John McIlhinney]

More tabloid non-sense from WC. Headline stating as fact, article and his posts say otherwise.
Headline "Elon Musk BLAMES diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike"
Article: "PERHAPS correlating the mass outage to CrowdStrike's DEI initiatives."

You're right. The article was too generous. Of course that's what he was doing. In fact, it seems pretty obvious that he's not even correlating them but implying a definite causal link. He may have worded it vaguely enough as to maintain plausible deniability but it would only be plausible to those who already agree with him. Why else would you dig up a post that's over two years old when something bad has happened if you're not trying to blame the bad thing on the subject of the post? You wouldn't.

 

[Arun Topez]

You're right. The article was too generous. Of course that's what he was doing. In fact, it seems pretty obvious that he's not even correlating them but implying a definite causal link. He may have worded it vaguely enough as to maintain plausible deniability but it would only be plausible to those who already agree with him. Why else would you dig up a post that's over two years old when something bad has happened if you're not trying to blame the bad thing on the subject of the post? You wouldn't.

What are you even on about? If you follow his feed and replies, you'll see that's not what he "blames" it on. There are multiple topics and issues at hand. Journalism is pretty much dead now thanks to people like you who go along with it, with contradictory wording and misleading clickbait headlines as fact.

 

[John McIlhinney]

What are you even on about? If you follow his feed and replies, you'll see that's not what he "blames" it on. There are multiple topics and issues at hand. Journalism is pretty much dead now thanks to people like you who go along with it, with contradictory wording and misleading clickbait headlines as fact.

What exactly do you think he was trying to convey in that reply then? The original post was over two years old and yet he digs it up now? They say they partnered with DEI specialists and, now that something bad has happened, he says that it wasn't smart to do so. Are you trying to pretend that he's not drawing a causal link there? He doesn't have to explicitly state that it was the only factor to be making an obvious implication that it was a factor. Of course, it may well be that he doesn't even think that it was a factor but he knows that you've just got to say "DEI" these days and it's red meat to the base.

 

[DylanGreen]

He is correct in saying that choosing race overtop merit WILL lead to a degradation in quality or revenue from customers.

Of course, there is no proof that it DIRECTLY ties to yesterday's failure. You could only hope to prove it if those responsible for QA were diversity hires.

 

[Gestalt Grey]

He is correct in saying that choosing race overtop merit WILL lead to a degradation in quality or revenue from customers.

Of course, there is no proof that it DIRECTLY ties to yesterday's failure. You could only hope to prove it if those responsible for QA were diversity hires.

First off, any competent DEI program will advocate AGAINST a "diversity hire". What they advocate for instead is making opportunities attractive to diverse applicants, then hiring more or less as usual. This practice, confusingly, is called "diversity hiring", distinct from a "diversity hire" .
People into fanning the flames of culture war will purposefully confuse the two. I don't know if Musk knows the difference between the two or if he's ignorant, but he is certainly virtue signaling on the issue and given his cultural influence in the tech sphere, this does make the matter fit for a WC article.