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How would you feel if I complained about a company being a bit "too brown"? Since when did we normalize this subtle racism towards white people?
by zo1 2y ago
How would you feel if I complained about a company being a bit "too brown"? Since when did we normalize this subtle racism towards white people?
- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y agoi think he's referring to the collar (not the skin) as in white collar work vs blue or brown collar.
- zo1 2y agoValid point - if that was the intention then my bad, bit of an overreaction.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoI really don’t think this is the case
- hilux 2y agoThe US is a white-majority country where the power and money are disproportionately in the hands of white people. When a company (in education!) that makes lots of noise about diversity obviously favors hiring white people, it's noteworthy. If we were in some brown-majority country where white people were excluded from money and power, yes, that would be noteworthy. Call it out! The US, despite what Trump tells his MAGA followers, is not that country.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoFor a workplace to be very white means they are self-selecting whiteness for their employees instead of hiring in a way that gives equal opportunity to all people. In other words, they have (probably unconscious but still inexcusable) racism in their hiring practices. Reasonable people would agree this is a bad thing.
- tazu 2y agoIs 60% very white?
- whamlastxmas 2y agoDepends on the city and country.