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0 pointscplanas4y ago0 comments

Maybe you have been lucky. I have seen racism in engineering jobs, most typically in the form of bias or preconceived ideas of how people of certain "races" are supposed to behave, or what are their perspectives in life.

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systemvoltage4y ago· 2 in thread

I’ve never observed that having worked in several Fortune 50 companies. It is quite the opposite. Whites in US tech scene are being impartially treated and open-reverse-racism is more commonplace (witnessed it several times in hiring committees. It was quite shocking and blatant). I can imagine racism being rampant maybe 30 years ago in the tech scene.

I am quite frustrated that being colored means I get to be put on posters, literally got a photo taken of me and the diversity/inclusion HR put it up on the company website to further their agenda which I completely disagree with. It always felt condescending to me. I want to be judged by merit and not my skin color.

cplanasOP4y ago

> It always felt condescending to me.

I completely agree with you. Pity is a particularly disturbing version of contempt. But if you think that this contempt is only reflected in the diversity circus, you are fooling yourself.

High-caste Americans (sorry Wilkerson, the simile is too good to let it go) want to virtue-signal and maybe give some breadcrumbs to the minorities they feel pity for, not put them at their level.

systemvoltage4y ago

I want to be totally clear - I don’t think “they feel pity for, not put them at their level”. That’s not what I was trying to say.

Every white leader I’ve met have given me opportunities and often their higher ups are not white. The problem is the corporate HR wokeness and their agenda feels condescending to me. That’s the distinction I want to clarify.

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