So the article as it stands makes you feel uneasy in the same way? If so you're a more consistent and possibly more fair person than many people, including me.

: Bradford's article on its own is annoying and fairly stupid, but the
: "Whites are oppressors" message has traction thanks to
: intersectionalism. The switch from "White cis-males" to
: "Jews" nicely recontextualizes the issue from a social problem
: to a personal problem, and also pushes the article into Joseph Goebbels
: territory.

Like I said, at some point you can't fight a stereotype head-on. White people as The Man is going to be with us for a while yet, even though there are tons of examples of location and education and class and income mattering way, way more than race, and putting a lot white people very much at the same level as a bunch of minorities.

: You get a job because you're qualified for it. Not because you balance out
: the company's EEOC form, not because you have the right politics, not
: because you glued your lips to the boss's ass, not because the boss is
: comfortable with your skin color or what you do in your bedroom. That is
: how it should work.

I agree

: What she did was political grandstanding. She went out there in front of
: Paizo's community and asked them to skew their hiring standards to help
: minorities. If Paizo ignored her but hired a woman anyway because she was
: qualified, there would always be that doubt that she was hired because of
: her sex. And that woman (Wish I could remember her name) would have
: trumpeted it as Paizo making a stand for equality, even if Paizo didn't
: want to get involved in politics in the first place. If they hired a man,
: I can see her posting a statement congratulating the new employee but
: professing disappointment that Paizo isn't working to further equality.

: The messageboards on Paizo's website are their lifeblood. Paizo may sell
: gamebooks in hobby shops and bookstores, but the bulk of their sales and
: their product feedback come through that forum. That website is where
: Pathfinder Society is managed. That's where many of their hardcore, paying
: customers frequent. And she put the company on the spot in front of those
: customers.

: Like I said, it's like asking someone if they'd beaten their wife lately.
: Even if the answer is a solid 'no', damage is done.

: That was a statement that should have been delivered in private. Or better
: yet, she should have highlighted minority tabletop game developers who are
: creative, talented, and in need of a job at a big-name publisher.

Like I said, the instance you brought up sounds bad, but I was addressing where you said:

: Women are dainty things that won't fight for what they want, they have to be given it.

: Alright, I might have added the word "Dainty". But the sentiment was still there.

Maybe that wasn't the thrust of that section, and maybe the person in question was thinking something other than what I put forth, but I've seen this complaint over and over again (about the apparent double-standard) and this is the first time I can remember trying to explain what I think is the reasoning behind it in the majority of cases, and the first time I can remember seeing anyone try to explain it in a way that doesn't either say women are weak or say that the people who make these suggestions are (intentional) hypocrites.

: Or maybe she felt that forcing people to go through a search, at cost to the
: university, before listening to her speech would put them in the proper
: siege mentality. Shannon Watts would kill for that kind of opportunity.

I don't know, she had to know it would have this blowback (I've seen this reaction that incident before, but not an explanation, so thank you for giving one), and preaching to the choir can only get you so far-- assuming you do actually want to cause change.