Yes, but does 'I don't see race' do that? What is the right way to say that you don't judge people by their race personally?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think, to be honest, it depends on the context. You can imagine someone on a soccer team saying "I we were like brothers - no-one ...
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Replying to @burtonad @HPluckrose
"... saw race. Indian, West Indian, Australian - we didn't care, we just gelled as a team."
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Replying to @burtonad
Yes, exactly, and this is what research shows. When people ignore race & work together, they genuinely forget about it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In individual encounters, sure. But then you look around a place of work like mine (professional engineering scientific), and you notice...
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Replying to @burtonad @HPluckrose
... that the vast majority of senior managers look like me, even though our graduate professional intake is (happily) more diverse.
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Replying to @burtonad @HPluckrose
And many people who look like me say "sure, is that a problem?" (The homogeneity in senior ranks.)
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Replying to @burtonad @HPluckrose
But if I'm a young African American female engineer, how do I feel about it? Particularly when my white male bosses say "we don't see race?"
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Replying to @burtonad
See, I don't know. I'd rather know that I wasn't going to be judged on my race or gender but as an engineer so I don't really get this...
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Replying to @HPluckrose @burtonad
The survey I just sent out has a couple of female engineers/scientists saying they're sick of being asked how it is being a woman.
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