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The key is in "expected". Why did someone expect another person to be of a certain color? Note that the person in question is named Benjamin Cruz, and has a ski
by gjulianm 6y ago
The key is in "expected". Why did someone expect another person to be of a certain color? Note that the person in question is named Benjamin Cruz, and has a skin tone more or less consistent with their name [1], and not especially dark.
So the question is why the expectation of "being white" was there. A reasonable interpretation (with limited knowledge, of course) is that they expected Cruz to be white because they expect mostly white people to be hired at their level. That is clearly racism, as you're attributing intelligence to race.
Of course there are other interpretations, but I wouldn't say that 'you should seek help if you see racism' is helpful at all.
1: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental-health-care-when-workers-complained-about-racism-n1259728 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental...
- matheusmoreira 6y agoThat expectation was there because of a photograph of the employee. The expectation was violated because the employee spent some time in Egypt and acquired a tan in the process. Nothing to do with racism.
- Chris2048 6y agoWas that (relevant) info in an article?
- matheusmoreira 6y agoIt was mentioned in another thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384305
- Chris2048 6y agoIt looks like speculation