as a half-asian female founder with a diverse team (mexican, german), this is a intimate issue for me. i'm really glad to see the topic being discussed, but it

as a half-asian female founder with a diverse team (mexican, german), this is a intimate issue for me. i'm really glad to see the topic being discussed, but it really is the first small step. sexism & racism isn't something that people do consciously. that's why there's such a backlash against it because most of us can honestly say that we're not consciously sexist or racist. these prejudices are systemic biases that flow through all of us. it takes hard introspection and compensatory mechanisms from each person to address the structural underpinnings that create the biases. it's really hard. as sama notes, the discussion needs to move towards these underlying mechanisms, rather than getting mired in the stale discussion of whether prejudices exist or not (they do).