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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by sbilstein on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:32PM (#21695773)
Your cultural beliefs and intuitions ARE personal issues and biases. They are challenging to overcome. Racist people don't get to being racist by reading a blog post or two; they develop and internalize it over time like any cultural trait. Same goes for these anxieties people of color feel.

It's ignorant to not realize that all of these things are mental. Duh, therapy helps. Trust me, every single person of color who works in tech and sees a therapist talks through all this stuff with their practitioner.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by sukilot on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:40PM (#21698871)
Also, people of color are often racist, and white people often have anxieties.
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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by rinchik on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:44PM (#21695903)
I’m not sure I follow, I don’t think that if a white guy is present during your interview, he is automatically racist? What I got from your post is that you are having problems during interviews because you are not comfortable with white people conducting your interviews. It’s sounds like you are automatically assume that white interviewers are racist? You are broadly generalizing people who happened to be white which does not sound good any way you look at it.
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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by dang on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:19PM (#21696837)
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Everyone on HN deserves that, but considering how even-keeled and respectful sbilstein's posts have been in this thread, on so sensitive a topic, I'd suggest 10x.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by sbilstein on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:53PM (#21696010)
Huh? I'm not sure where you are reading that.

I'm saying that any internalized biases, anxieties, etc are deeply personal whether you are of an in group or an out group. It's totally a mental thing for me to get psyched out in an interview so of course therapy helps.

It's deeply personal but it's also something I know anecdotally is common amongst my peers of similar background. I'm pointing it out as one of the ways an interview can be unintentionally biased.

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