<story><title>Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site &apos;failed&apos; black people</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/04/facebook-mark-s-luckie-african-american-workers-users</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>Being black in this industry really, really sucks. I&amp;#x27;m certain that for the vast majority of people I interact with on a daily basis, it doesn&amp;#x27;t even cross their minds. But living with an unending fear of having your entire self worth immediately judged at the color of your skin is something that no other race lives with in this industry. I have to &lt;i&gt;immediately&lt;/i&gt; force myself to be twice as charming, friendly, witty, and intelligent sounding as the equivalent white or Asian person just to be taken seriously. I don&amp;#x27;t really know that there&amp;#x27;s any solution to this, it&amp;#x27;s just something we have to live with.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site &apos;failed&apos; black people</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/04/facebook-mark-s-luckie-african-american-workers-users</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>&amp;quot;Create internal systems for employees to anonymously report microaggressions. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the &amp;#x27;happy path&amp;#x27; to ideological totalitarianism, and it&amp;#x27;s a scary statement.&lt;p&gt;In the UC system, it is now considered a &amp;#x27;micro aggression&amp;#x27; to make the statement &amp;#x27;America is a Meritocracy&amp;#x27;. Why? Because it doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily reflect the fact that for some people it&amp;#x27;s harder than others. Surely - there&amp;#x27;s a lot to be debated about the statement. But that it cannot be said, or is even considered problematic is utterly Orwellian.&lt;p&gt;The author makes the case of &amp;#x27;undue or overly harsh&amp;#x27; criticism of Black employees? Unfortunately, this is a difficult thing to measure, and if FB turns into a &amp;#x27;government office&amp;#x27; - it simply won&amp;#x27;t be possible to give even a fair assessment without the fear or being labelled a racist.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m actually quite sensitive to aphxtron&amp;#x27;s comment above about the insecurities of being black in tech, and there is work to do ... but I think the intersectional &amp;#x2F; authoritarian approach, especially those whereby we &amp;#x27;assume racism&amp;#x27; is wrong.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think the Colin Kaepernick approach is going to work on this, I think it&amp;#x27;s just going to take a while.</text></comment>