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  • it’s about team culture

    If you’re interviewing for something like team culture you’re going to end up with a bunch of people in your own demographic, because shared life experience is the biggest predictor of team culture.

    People say we don’t need DEI because they aren’t racist. And you’re not racist. But this is how accidental racism sneaks in. It’s nefarious.

    If you asked something relevant, like “how many servers are in your basement?” Or “what open source projects do you contribute to?”, you’ll not be leaning on culture, but it tells you more about them than coding ability.







  • A need for what though? I guess I just don’t know what the ask is here.

    A recognition that people are lonely? That it’s hard to provide for people? That message seems pretty alive in leftist spaces, no? Hating capitalism, building community, it’s kind of their thing.

    This is why I think it’s a messaging problem. I think the solution is there, and it’s just not packaged up for these people in a simple to understand way.





  • I scanned your comments and you’re not totally off your rocker, so I’ll not be as big of an ass as I usual am.

    Your experience is an anecdote. The plural of anecdote is not “data”.

    The data shows that minorities are unfairly targeted by police. Arrested more, released more as innocent. Prosecuted more for the same rate of incidence.

    The data shows that having an “ethnic” name gets fewer responses to an identical resume.

    The data shows that for literal decades, some would say still, minorities couldn’t get home loans in good areas with good schools.

    What benefit do white people have? I have never, literally not once, thought or cared about my race. My privilege is getting to live without noticing my race in any meaningful context. That’s why white people have to be “woken”. We’re comfortably asleep in our bubble, from birth.

    If you don’t see it, great! But that might say less about reality, and more about your ability to perceive it.