Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by boppo1 on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:21PM (#34680711)

I think you might want to reflect for a minute that you are playing the exact DEI game that the OP is complaining about. You are dismissing your parent post's argument without addressing content of the argument. Essentially, your post boils down to "Don't argue with Black people. "Lived Experience" trumps all rhetoric and discussion. In the future, please keep your thoughts and concerns to yourself."

You are fostering a culture without room for discussion. You are also presuming to speak for the Black person two posts up. Solidarity is important, but shutting people down based on racial context isn't it.

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Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by mostly_lurks on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:24PM (#34688749)

I was not engaging with the argument made by the post I replied to because the poster's argument is completely beside the point.

When someone says "I experienced racism because I'm black," the appropriate response is not "Well, actually, lots of people who aren't black experienced that terrible thing." So what if lots of non-black people experienced that terrible thing? That's not what we're talking about here. Your statement is re-centering the conversation away from the black person who's describing their experience. And you know what? It's the black people who are being routinely discriminated against, incarcerated, and killed because of racism, so maybe it's irrelevant to say "my feelings were hurt on IRC too."

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Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by boppo1 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:35PM (#34704183)

Are you Black?

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