Jon Pretty

Some contrarian advice for job candidates: don't try to improve your interview technique. If you're genuinely a good candidate, it shouldn't be in your interests to be hired by a company that would be easily fooled by anything so superficial as "good interview technique".

Agreed, but this will come off as "white guy advice" If I can add anything I'll be: "Have confidence. You have value. Realize and express that."

That sounds racist

I think that if it refered to an historically-oppressed race instead, it might be. It's a significant difference.

I disagree that it's a significant difference, unless we redefine racism. Meaning, it might be worse in practice but only by combination. E.g. it's worse to kick someone that stubbed their toe than someone else but either way kicking is intrinsically bad, that's not what changed

Well, yours isn't an uncommon interpretation, of course... but I think it's simplistic to treat racism as perfectly symmetrical. I see it that society and culture have provided the empowered race ("whites") with more effective tools of oppression, by way of historical context.

I think we have a bunch of different underlying premises. It would probably be a lot more fun to debate off of Twitter