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I'm black and I found this to be odd. How does this work exactly, do you need one black woman on the team and then you can go all 3 days. Does she need to be
by ksou32 10y ago
I'm black and I found this to be odd.
How does this work exactly, do you need one black woman on the team and then you can go all 3 days. Does she need to be in a leadership role, can she just be the Secretary?
- katm 10y agoIf you didn't see this previously, here's more on why we do Open Office Hours: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours. And to be clear, founders should apply. There's no harm in applying for more than one day -- but we likely would not do office hours with you more than once. We typically get so many applications for each day that we're only able to meet with a small percentage of the people who apply.
- ksou32 10y agoYou see the problem here ? What's to stop someone from just getting a black female friend to call herself a founder to do the pitch. I get wanting diversity, but when you do it like this your blatantly putting others at a disadvantage. How about you work on increasing your available times which would allow more people to apply overall.
- _pius 10y agoWhat's to stop someone from just getting a black female friend to call herself a founder to do the pitch. Integrity? Self-respect?
- nxzero 10y agoBring up "integrity & self-respect" when the larger issue is racism & sexism is disgusting.
- _pius 10y agoSeriously? You're trolling their diversity efforts with absurd strawmen like the idea that teams will trick black women en masse into being fake token founders so that the real teams have an extra shot at office hours. There is a disgusting "argument" being made here, but I'm not the one making it.
- nxzero 10y agoRacism & sexism is wrong. When's the last time you experience a racist or sexist remarks or behavior? When's the last time you confronted a racist or sexist? You're welcome to call me a troll, but filters based on gender are sexist and those based on race are racist. Any other sub-topic to me is irrelevant, and points back to the real issue, this is toxic.
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- nxzero 10y agoKat, I've read the post you linked to above, and in fact read it before I posted my question above. Possible I'm missing something, but is there any reason why my question is not being addressed?