I appreciate every comment on here for the most part. People post their opinions and the way they feel for a reason. Unfortunately, a work environment has been created where people don't feel empowered to speak the truth on how they feel because of likely negative consequences. Social movements that people relentlessly use to advance there careers is exhausting to watch.
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Do the people who started each and every Fortune 500 company that can afford diversity quotas look diverse to the people arguing the myth of white privilege?
Does the vast majority of the industry experience/competence/merit developed through the history of the industry look exactly like the patchwork of ethnicities in this exact moment? Of course not. The current levels of diversity are a recent development and why would the most experience people like CEOs, vp’s etc look like the county is today and not like it looked when people of that level entered the work force?
There is no such thing as white privilege. Everybody that came before was not racists and if they were, people would never reached a critical mass to normalize accusing the evil and dominant people of such and demand the reduction of their numbers in the work force.
White privilege ignores the actual demographic representation of expertise in an industry based in its history, assumes racism where there is zero evidence of any, and demands discrimination in hiring based on immutable characteristics like skin color and gender, and targets a specific group.
How else do you reach the ever growing targets of diversity in an evironment where nothing is happening except terminations.
Everybody knows this. Everybody. You’re just not allowed to say so if you have the wrong skin color.
The concept of equality has been set back 100 years. But it’s OK as long as you target the right group.
The others don’t mind because they stand to benefit. Because the currently targeted group was NOT racist.
"Oh, put it back in the deck!" - Mallory Archer
I know you want a place to complain, but at least try to make it tangentially about layoffs. :)
Have you benefited from white privilege? Have you used your whiteness to advance your career ? Do most of ELT , and people in positions of power look like you ? Do you think maybe there is a reason for that?