The OP’s complaint is not only that hiring is unfair but that there is little semblance of hiring based on scholarship when it comes to women and POC. A bunch of threads complain about incestuous hiring and even faculty at top departments wring their hands about it. As bad as it is, at least department quality is a noisy signal of quality. Race, ethnicity and gender are not.
As for SP personally I do not feel bad about this thread as long as she gets the benefits and respect that come with being a Stanford professor. If she is immune from judgment then why even let her hold the title of professor at such a prestigious university? People will judge her based on that of course.
Threads focus more on non Asian WOC from good departments because they get the most extreme preference on the job market compared to their qualifications. Unsurprising then that the ones that are hired are also least qualified for their jobs. Then the woke crowd on Twitter and departments themselves shrilly insist that WOC are just as qualified and productive as people who were not given a leg up. As long as they keep selling a bag of lies people will complain. For every person saying that nobody is entitled to a job at Stanford, there are people complaining that department are too white and that WOC are entitled to a job even if it requires a crutch.
my point is: you all are being unreasonably mean to a junior person just bc of her race plus your imagination of the department she went to grad school at.
she’s just a normal person. she got an exciting job opportunity. it was lucky. she took it. you’d have said yes too. like many junior people, she’s still finding her feet. she’s probably going to do fine.
nobody stole anything from you or wronged you. stanford doesn’t owe you anything. the job market is not fair. newsflash. our field can’t even define what good work is, so how could we design a fair job market?
leave this person alone.