@PDXStephenG@puppetize It's more effective to introspect when the process is benchmarked to actions, goals, and results. Starting with a proactive, employment-drive outreach to the black community would go a long way to making this dialog more reflective of solving an actual problem, imho.
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@PDXStephenG@puppetize In engineering roles in particular, most positions are placed by recruiters, rather than through direct applications. So, when I wrote my earlier suggestion it was based on the ability to proactively recruit POC based on existing methods and protocols.
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@PDXStephenG@puppetize Introspection without action seems to me like a waste of time. I think it would be better to start reaching out right now to current and potential black employees, and really doing the -work- necessary to hire them.
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@PDXStephenG@puppetize Thx 😊
Doing the hard work of identifying and changing a culture to be more inclusive seems like a recipe for cringe when it's going to be a largely white workforce doing so. Like imagine a bunch of white brogrammer hipsters sitting around a table being like "so much this."
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@PDXStephenG@puppetize Yeah like, instead of that long-winded post about introspective self-awareness value transformation, maybe just be like, "we're going to hire more black people."
@StartupChamps@turoczy Yeah. White helvetica bold statements on a black background with a #BLM thrown in means little. Institutions need to make real, financial commitments and allow themselves to be held accountable.
@NickTheNewbie Not sure if this is an adult thing as much as a "from the midatlantic and/or New England" thing. (Possibly also the South?) MY POYNT IS that it's not really a thing on the west coast.
@JoshConstine I should point out that this tweet calls into relief the conservative critique of a leftist media bias.
Unless you'd like to clarify: are you speaking as an individual, or as an impartial journalist?