Physician, Heal Thyself: TechCrunch's "Diversity" Hypocrisy

So, this happened:

Here’s the breakdown of gender and racial diversity of venture firms http://t.co/P9TmmdYH8o pic.twitter.com/suoMBznbRD

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 7, 2015

So, um, let's check out the diversity of the staff at TechCrunch:

Writer Sex Ethnicity Matthew Panzarino Male White Matt Burns Male White Alex Wilhelm Male White Anna Escher Female White Anthony Ha Male Asian Bryce Durbin Male White Catherine Shu Female Asian Chris Nesi Male White Connie Loizos Female White Drew Olanoff Male White Felicia Williams Female White Frederic Lardinois Male White Greg Kumparak Male White Henry Pickavet Male White JaNelle Hasty Female Black Ingrid Lunden Female White Joey Hinson Male White John Biggs Male White Jon Russell Male White Jonathan Shieber Male White Jordan Crook Female White Jesse Chambers Male White

Writer Sex Ethnicity Josh Constine Male White Kim-Mai Cutler Female Asian Leslie Hitchcock Female White Matthew Lynley Male White Megan Rose Dickey Female Black Mike Butcher Male White Natasha Lomas Female White Ned Desmond Male White Nicholas Vincent Male White Nicole Wilke Female White Romain Dillet Male White Sam O'Keefe Female White Sarah Buhr Female White Sarah Lane Female White Sarah Perez Female Hispanic Stephen Wood Male White Steve Long Male White Steve O'Hear Male White Tito Hamze Male White Travis Bernard Male White Yashad Kulkarni Male Arabic?

In graphical form:

Oh, dear, overwhelmingly male (64%) and/or white (83%), which latter is worse than the "senior investment team" they decry on racial grounds. I don't expect this will end TechCrunch's apparently limitless belief they should be able to shove their nose into other people's companies, but it does serve to illustrate what a raging bunch of hypocrites they are.

Update: If we look at bylines, the numbers are, well, interesting:

Men are still the dominant writers at TechCrunch (73% of bylines), and whites are even more so (83% of bylines). Yeah, whatever, TechCrunch.