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How is this any different than all industries? Why should I believe this discrimination is worse in my field?
by jjaredsimpson 11y ago
How is this any different than all industries? Why should I believe this discrimination is worse in my field?
- pionar 11y agoWhy does it need to be worse to deserve attention? To paraphrase Office Space, do we really want to do the bare minimum?
- nilkn 11y agoIt doesn't, but a lot of people try very hard to imply that it's worse in the technology industry. If this is not the case, then this sort of rhetoric is just adding noise that distracts attention away from just fixing the issue.
- onion2k 11y agoWhy should I believe this discrimination is worse in my field? Because you've read testimonials of people who say they've been discriminated against and you haven't casually dismissed them all? As a white, middle-class male developer who hasn't ever been discriminated against in my entire life I find it hard to empathise with people facing discrimination, but that doesn't mean anything as all the evidence makes it abundantly clear that they do. I hadn't seen it first hand until I heard a manager at a relatively big company talking about how he wouldn't hire women because they'd be a distraction to the rest of his team. If you can ignore the weight of all that then you're quite a big part of the problem. At some point you have to stop dismissing people and start trying to understand what's going on, and try to help make the industry better.