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0 pointsogre_codes5y ago0 comments

> I agree with the other comment about assuaging white guilt; it doesn't help someone get hired, talk to the police, or find housing.

You make it sound like this is a bunch of white people unilaterally doing something so they feel better. As if there are no black programmers asking for this change.

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially...

The whole point of this effort is to make the workplace less hostile for people we work with. Black programmers are part of that.

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imglorp5y ago

Yes, that's a good point about needing to create a welcoming workplace, so maybe this discussion is more of a spectrum where we need to decide where the line is?

Guidance would help instead of everybody guessing or corps randomly scrubbing things until the bad PR goes away.

ogre_codesOP5y ago

> Guidance would help instead of everybody guessing or corps randomly scrubbing things until the bad PR goes away.

I'm having trouble seeing an issue black developers have been raising for over a decade being called "Randomly Scrubbing". It's been a known pain point for some time.

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