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by wijwp 453 days ago
Well, most other groups have had a rough go at it throughout recent history, and often have to approach the workplace differently because it takes a long time to reverse some of our previous mistakes.

We considered many black folks property until 1865, and we had segregation of some schools in the 1960s. We didn't let women vote until 1920. We put Japanese people in internment camps until 1946. Gay folks couldn't marry in all states until 2015. Do I have to list more?

If you don't think this kind of stuff leaks into the workplace, then I don't think you're paying attention.
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fallingknife 453 days ago
> We put Japanese people in internment camps until 1946

And now they are economically ahead of the average American. Universities actually discriminate against them by their malevolent definition of "fairness" where success is a punishable offense. People are where they are because of what they do today, not what happened to their ancestors in the past.

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yieldcrv 453 days ago
That doesn't explain why ERG's exist for that, and it doesn't explain why they are dismissive of what people who are white && and not women encounter in life or as an employee, seeking resources

Why are you invalidating their experience, its look like you have let something else leak into the workplace under an amusingly ironic interpretation of empathy

Let's write it again in a different way: Nothing about the name "Employee Resource Group" suggests that "state-sanctioned disenfranchisement at some point in the country's history" is the only reason or prerequisite for an employee seeking resources

Looks like an another race and ethnicity settlement is brewing

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IX-103 453 days ago
Look, they had a whiskey drinkers ERG when I was there. For people that like to meet to drink whiskey.

I'm not sure what OP actually proposed, but I'm reasonably sure he's not telling the whole story.

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yieldcrv 453 days ago
Thanks for the context
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wijwp 453 days ago
> Why are you invalidating their experience

What experience are you talking about? What resources are lacking that don't address those experiences?

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