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If you’re a capable software engineer, you don’t need dark skin or the right genitals to get a job.

• faeriechangling 4y ago
  If you're a capable software engineer, you won't be negatively affected by affirmative action either. We still care about the issue because it has a profound effect on mediocre software engineers of various ethnicities and with various genitals.
  • dymk 4y ago
    That’s not true one won’t be negatively affected. If somebody is being given an opportunity because of their skin color, that means another person is having an opportunity taken away or delayed. That’s just how quotas work. It’s frustrating to see, especially when somebody is discriminated against for e.g. being white, but fills “other” URM boxes that aren’t visible such as sexuality or gender identity. A well-off cis-het person with worse qualifications will be given higher priority at resume review stage than a destitute queer person just because they have the ethnicity the company is looking for.
  • rad_gruchalski 4y ago
    > If you're a capable software engineer, you won't be negatively affected by affirmative action either. Well, but maybe you will. Because if you’re not “diverse enough”, some more “diverse enough” person, maybe less qualified, will take your place.
  • canistista 4y ago
    you have to do their work for them