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That you were surprised just shows that there's something wrong with the system (education, social or whatever) that so few black people end up in well paying t
by dx034 6y ago
That you were surprised just shows that there's something wrong with the system (education, social or whatever) that so few black people end up in well paying tech jobs. Being surprised to encounter one isn't racist as long as you're not negatively surprised.
It's the same as being surprised that the CEO of a large company is a woman. That in itself is not sexist but shows that something's wrong with society.
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- zpeti 6y agoHe just said he’s from a town of 30k people with 10 blacks. How exactly is assuming someone you talk to is from the 99.9% majority not normal? Of course this is the perfect example of our society today, where if you try and see racism sexism everywhere, you’ll see it. Even if it’s not actually there
- marcus_holmes 6y agoOr that black people are uncommon in the region that they were in and therefore not encountered often. Having "10 black people in my town of 30,000 people" is not a failure of any system.
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- that_guy_iain 6y agoYea, Scotland is something like 98% white. I literally never met a black person until I was 17. We had lots of Asians and Indians but not black people.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI grew up around Bristol, but didn't meet a black person until 6th-form college. She was a classmate and we hung out a bit. I bothered her with sooo many questions. I think today it would probably be unacceptable, but this was the 80's so a different age. And I was so curious about what being black was like (and no internet to satisfy that curiosity without asking an actual black person).