I Got My Dream Job and Ended Up Enabling Racism
This, I think, was the reason I played fuck-about-Fred with my ethnic identity as much as I could. ‘They’ are still in charge and even when ‘they’ are saying marginalised instead of mongoloid they are still acknowledging that we are an issue to be dealt with. When would it be my turn to hold the carrot and stick? My sister had grandiose chat about
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black people who are the only black people at their jobs will feel a need to overcompensate and show their blackness explicitly.18 I’m not immune to this. In fact, I’m so susceptible to it that I know where to look for it.
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Black female DEI director railroaded out of her job includes crisp definition of wokeness in opening grafs:
"a worldview that understands knowledge as relative and tied to unequal identity-based power dynamics that must be exposed and dismantled."
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