[Zenbit_UX]

> The logic of why people may feel offended by master/slave or white/blacklist is trivially obvious. One can have doubts about the intensity of it, but not the basic mechanism.

My companies black systems architect just finished a whitelist feature and delivered it this morning. Should I, as a dutiful white frontend dev, inform him:

a) that this was in fact a racist decision and he may be a racist or rationally motivated.

b) that he's been oppressed by the whiteman for so long that he doesn't even know how racist this is, thus awakening his mind to the countless micro-aggressions around him

c) do nothing, because this is stupid virtue signaling by marketing teams fueled by white guilt ridding the wave of a woke-movement that, at worse, will get them a neutral "whatever" response or some scoffs, and at best, a pat on the shoulder from the woke twitter-verse?

Please let me know of your selection by reply and I will carry out the appropriate action and report back.

[IfOnlyYouKnew]

This is the I-have-a-black-friend excuse that tends to elicit slightly shameful laughter from the audience these days. I didn't know people still used it.

In any case: it: your college does not single-handedly represent all Black people. Assuming that he does is the same basic mechanism as pointing at one red-haired criminal to support your theory of higher criminality among redheads.

The disadvantaged group of any discrimination also isn't itself exempt from actively perpetuating that structure. It's almost a cliché, for example, that female leaders sometimes act extremely aggressive, especially with female employees, in an overzealous effort to fit in, or to dispel any notions of nepotism.

[Zenbit_UX]

> This is the I-have-a-black-friend excuse that tends to elicit slightly shameful laughter from the audience these days. I didn't know people still used it.

No, it's actually nothing like that at all but I can see how tempting it was for you to make a false equivalency in order to support the point you wanted to make anyway.

In actuality, it's a very real and current example of how my colleague, the guy who directs all the devs at our organization and happens to be black doesn't give a shit.

> The disadvantaged group of any discrimination also isn't itself exempt from actively perpetuating that structure.

I see, so option b then. A balsy choice to be sure, I have to wonder if you'd have the stones to mansplain to your black supervisor that he or she is perpetuating a racial system. Based on your choice I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're also perpetuating a stereotype, that of the white guilt avenger. Please do correct me and explain why I'm wrong and a bigot though.