So, filmmakers shouldn't make the projects that speak to them? They should make projects that advance social justice, even if those projects don't interest them?

Sweet lord. Not every show is about you and what you want. The universe does not revolve around what you demand.

Again, they’re trying to accurately depict something that they’re lampooning. If the show featured a cast full of racial and gender diversity then they couldn’t really do shows about how the company suffered from a lack of racial and gender diversity, both of which have been plots on the show.

Are you actually suggesting that no show be made, story be written about places and periods of history that do not involve minorities? Is this what your saying?

Not only free to develop it. I’d like SocialJusticeWarriorPrincess to actually develop it. It sounds interesting. Not instead of Silicon Valley, as this person seems to be suggesting, but in addition to Silicon Valley.

This website seems to only care about one specific kind of diversity - and it’s not about promoting white women. Most of the commenters on this post haven’t even seen the show, yet they’re railing against it as not ~diverse enough.

As one of those women in tech, I’m pretty okay with how they’ve cast the show (in regard to gender). In my company, I am THE woman on the floor. There are other women in my company, but it’s a rarity for me to interact with many of them. I’ve gotten very used to being the only woman in the room. I do appreciate how…

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Obviously. This whole article and most of the comments are idiotic.

This whole post seems like trying to make a controversy out of nothing. The whole point of the show is to mock the tech industry. They even had a whole storyline about hiring women in the 2nd season.

No, it’s not. And you’re free to develop that other show.

Then don’t watch it.

Because that would be a different show, and maybe not one that they would find more interesting to write/produce?

Evidently a lot of people who are very concerned about how Silicon Valley represents women and minorities have never watched the show at all.

Congratulations Kumail Nanjiani, you’re now white!

So you’re asking “Why didn’t they make a completely different show?”

Silicon Valley is pitch perfect and I love every minute of it. A parody doesn’t work if you attempt to change the optics of reality.

Do people really have so few important things to do with their lives that they want to moan and groan that a TV Show about an industry which is recognizedly, affirmatively, absolutely and completely non-diverse not being diverse?

Do they not realize that making the show diverse does not fix real life in any way, shape…

Silicon Valley is super white, asian and male. Tech is super white, asian and male. My ex is in tech (as am I now but at lower rungs). You know what the company did on a workation last time? Strip clubs! I joined because I’m fascinated by the whole thing, then felt sick about it later.

I buy this, though. I don’t have a problem with the lack of diversity on this show, because I feel like its entire role is lampooning the absurdity of silicon valley culture. It’s supposed to be an exaggerated version of start-up/venture politics, not an idealized version of it. They even have a whole episode about…