Re:Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “ille...
by Asooka on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:27PM
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Well, it's obviously because as a white slavic person you have never been under oppressive slavery like a wealthy black immigrant from Africa! /s
Re:Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “ille...
by jnbiche on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:44PM
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It's not just between foreign whites and American whites.
Take a wealthy, white, highly-educated person from Connecticut, and a dirt-poor, white, high-school dropout from rural W. Virginia.
Both have "white privilege".
And so the poor, under-educated W. Virginian who claws his way up to being a self-educated programmer will be disregarded by Google along with the wealthy Connecticuter.
That simple fact bothers me immensely.
As an immigrant who came to the US from a poor Eastern European country just a few years ago I feel the same about being labeled as "white". It blows my mind that for many people a guy of British descent who was born in the US and a woman from Russia who speaks very poor English are both just "white".