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We're attracting the good trolls, I'm sorry that I have to lock it.

The impact of centuries of slavery, segregation, and unequal treatment doesn't disappear quickly. Even if the root causes were completely resolved (and they are not), the consequences reverberate for a long time. We cannot forget that much of our life is a result of where we start, and it was the same for our parents, and their parents.

They know.

She still believes that conservatives argue in good faith?

As a white guy, it is like that. In the same way it is in female run office spaces. But white guy culture is definitely the most toxic. They feel unashamedly deserving when they find good old boys clubs.

Having worked in a sexist office, it sucks, having worked for good old boys, it sucks. Not being able to call people out on their shit fucking sucks.

As a white guy, I'd like to think it's not like that. I'd like to think that we left racism and all this bullshit in the past and any job goes to the best qualified applicant regardless of race, gender, or sexual preferences.

While I would like that to be true, I know that isn't the world we live in.

Diversity
Equity
Inclusion

It's not "woke", no matter how hard they try to convince you of it! Diversity: Okay, yeah. If you're some close-minded person who's stayed in the same small town your whole life you might fear people who are different and not understand them. Literally part of what these initiatives are trying to improve, but whatever. However, the other two are basically just about fairness and making sure everyone has the chance to thrive! Nothing to fear there! Who could possibly be against that!?

People hire their friends and family anyway.

People lie about it in my experience. I work in government and in education. I've received our "DEI" training. I'm in the very heart of it, and all I've seen is that it's the exact thing that the people who complain about it say (sometimes) that they want instead. They (probably say but don't necessarily mean) that we should hire based on merit and not race. Well guess what? My dei training is watching a video where: some boss says "I don't want to hire Ahmed ", his subordinate says "but he's the best candidate" and his boss says "yeah but he's Indian" freeze frame, question on what you should do, play video saying to hire him if he's the most qualified guy.

Maybe your experience is different, but I'm in an organization that is what gets pointed to the hardest as "the problem" by these people, and I have seen what they describe. Maybe it's different for HR, but are you in our HR department, or have you just "heard about it"

I know that sociology is an elective in a lot of US colleges, and I thoughr more people would haveI taken it. It pretty straightforwardly explained that every aspect we hold inevitably drives our social interactions and life experience whether we like to or not. From what I've gathered from my friend's experiences and the attitutes I've seen onlone, the sentiment of "why does it matter to be X" is very much prevelant, and being on the receiving end of unknowing racism really does hurt.

But at the same time, understanding that point also means understanding that people who do not have your traits may not be able to fathom these sorts of experiences (though experience in general is hard to transfer) which results in a kind of dismissal. I'm not saying to forgive, but I understand, and it'll be all I think about as I help educate (and/or bulldoze disrespectful) people.