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What do you assign the injustice you faced to? And who're you to deny GPs claims? There's nothing more rancid than someone leaping to downplay someone's compla

What do you assign the injustice you faced to? And who're you to deny GPs claims? There's nothing more rancid than someone leaping to downplay someone's complaint as "ah, they're just being sensitive. They're imagining it". If they were lodging a formal complaint at their firm, sure, due process is a must but people being shit to the Other is a well established and common human behavior. It sucks what happened to you but it has little to bear on GPs words. It's just confusing why you felt the need to defend these other strangers you've never met.

Xmd5a 2y ago
I'm not defending GP's colleagues, nor am I suggesting that the undeserved treatment he received was imaginary. However, the idea that this must be caused by racism is a cheap and comfortable narrative GP is telling himself and anyone who believes him. Should his colleagues read his post anonymously, they would probably agree with him. As for me, my story isn't unlike the rants often shared by open-source project maintainers. One never gives of oneself without keeping a secret ledger in their mind, known only to them: that can only lead to frustration and anger. The "solution" is to never give away your work without retribution—an ideal that, of course, isn't feasible within a company. Meritocracy exists only at the periphery, driven by market forces, however flawed they may be. I don't know how to "fix" this. To rise within a company (or academia), you also need charisma, connections, likability, and sometimes even resorting to flattery, ass-kissing, or bullying a pharmakos—all of which I took pride in refusing to partake in. These are the traits GP and I lacked. I can tell from the pathetic tone he used throughout his post—a tone that reminds me of myself.
- low_tech_love 2y ago
  You got many points right, and I’m sure it’s true that there’s bullshit everywhere. But you also got wrong the whole idea of “racism”; I never actually mentioned that word or considered that as a part of my situation. The right word is “prejudice”, as in, “you’re weak here, you have no support, and you don’t know how to play the game. If someone needs to be screwed, it’ll be you.” If you go by what is in the surface, you’d expect that an incompetent native would be in more danger than a competent foreigner. That’s not the case.

Xmd5a 2y ago

I'm not defending GP's colleagues, nor am I suggesting that the undeserved treatment he received was imaginary. However, the idea that this must be caused by racism is a cheap and comfortable narrative GP is telling himself and anyone who believes him. Should his colleagues read his post anonymously, they would probably agree with him. As for me, my story isn't unlike the rants often shared by open-source project maintainers. One never gives of oneself without keeping a secret ledger in their mind, known only to them: that can only lead to frustration and anger. The "solution" is to never give away your work without retribution—an ideal that, of course, isn't feasible within a company. Meritocracy exists only at the periphery, driven by market forces, however flawed they may be. I don't know how to "fix" this. To rise within a company (or academia), you also need charisma, connections, likability, and sometimes even resorting to flattery, ass-kissing, or bullying a pharmakos—all of which I took pride in refusing to partake in. These are the traits GP and I lacked. I can tell from the pathetic tone he used throughout his post—a tone that reminds me of myself.

low_tech_love 2y ago
You got many points right, and I’m sure it’s true that there’s bullshit everywhere. But you also got wrong the whole idea of “racism”; I never actually mentioned that word or considered that as a part of my situation. The right word is “prejudice”, as in, “you’re weak here, you have no support, and you don’t know how to play the game. If someone needs to be screwed, it’ll be you.” If you go by what is in the surface, you’d expect that an incompetent native would be in more danger than a competent foreigner. That’s not the case.