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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by Avicebron on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:35PM (#23545136)
> Anti-racism provides the tools to contextualize and understand why certain phrases are racist or biased.

Can you expand on this a little bit? It sounds a lot like:

>It's akin to just memorizing a list of microagressions like curse words and never saying them for fear of being fired

With extra steps. What are these tools and how do they avoid accidentally putting the cart in front of the horse in terms of goals vs. reality?

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by GaryNumanVevo on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:35PM (#23545692)
It's the difference between actually understanding what makes something offensive, and not just the knowledge that it is offensive.
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