>To those that say, "Hey, it's just time for white males to find out what it has been like for women and ethnic minorities" The only people saying that are bitter idiots. Reading all these anecdotes of disinterested people of color just confirms to me people want to strawman this issue, as they always do. Nobody is talking about forced hiring of disinterested people. The problematic situation is when several candidat…
> That practice, where the person hiring always defaults to the white person, even in a mixed group of people with equal skill, is what's problematic, and what needs to be tackled. Yes, I agree this needs to be tackled (an understatement I know). We need to stamp out the racism that non-white people routinely face. As far as hiring goes, I feel a lot of progress has been made on this front, but I don't have any idea…
While in reality, all that's being asked is to recognize that there's something systemic going on here.
But enough people comment this, some people pick it up and actually start doing it...