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It is a very narrow view to conclude racial bias did not exist by naming specific minority ethnicities. I have struggled with this question a lot and taking a
by senthil_rajasek 5y ago
It is a very narrow view to conclude racial bias did not exist by naming specific minority ethnicities.
I have struggled with this question a lot and taking a bigger picture view helped me understand the systemic problem.
The exact same reasoning was used by some social media users to argue that there was no racial motivation in the case of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police in May 2020. One of the officer was East Asian and another was not white but the man who had the knee on the neck of George Floyd was white and was the superior officer.
I can't conclude that all the power over Mr.Zhu in this case was in the hands of the two VCs you mentioned.
- BurningFrog 5y agoTrying to conclude systemic patterns from single high profile cases will always fail.
- senthil_rajasek 5y agoThe same reasoning applies to the parent comment which is why I did not make any conclusions. I am saying racial bias should be viewed with the lens of the larger system or world in which we all operate.
- fragmede 5y agoAbsolutely. Which is why. GP's comment about there being (or not being) a bamboo ceiling is wrong, or more charitably, has faults due to the underlying dataset used.
- xibalba 5y agoPerhaps my phrasing was not sufficiently clear. I make no a claim that this case falsifies the "bamboo ceiling hypothesis". Rather, it seems like there is quite a bit of evidence in this case that the reasons for Zhu's firing were unrelated to race/ethnicity/culture. To my knowledge, for instance, highly informal professional attire/attitude and use of hallucinogens are not staples of Chinese culture or tradition.