All day today I've been forming a talk and a thought in my mind. I'm done with giving ethics talks. I'm done with empathy talks. I'm done with D&I talks. That window has closed. The time for them was 5-10 years ago.
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Tech companies have been contentedly listening to 101-level material for years, content to keep us there and prevent us from moving on.
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We're still on "diversity is the invitation, inclusion is being asked to dance" and we need to be on "we will never fully recognize the material benefits of diversity until unqualified white men are fired and removed from positions of power."
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We literally have almost 5000 people dead in Puerto Rico, Nazis murdering people in the streets, and cops murdering Black folks weekly and we're at "well racial tensions seem high."
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So I'm done giving talks about the dangers that may come and I'm going to focus on the dangers that are here and what comes next. And it's not pretty.
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Note the use of the word "unqualified" in this tweet. Not all white men yada yada okay?https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1002994618013831169?s=19 …
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I'm over asking people to think of ethics and to have empathy. I'm at the point where I'm asking people to think about wildcat strikes and active exposure of crimes and unethical practices.
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And when I say "think about," I mean it in the same way I mean asking people to think about ethics. What would the world look like if that was a reality? Is that a world you'd want?
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