I grew up in a mostly black county, and attended predominantly black schools my entire childhood. Something that the typical person on HN doesn't understand is how implicitly absurd, and accidentally racist, it is to view the comments of an individual black person to be representative of black people in general.
We do this all the time, but would never accept a random white person to claim they represent all white people.
Al Sharpton knows nothing about the lives of black people where I grew up. He's never been there. My friends growing up were deeply resentful of his constant claim to be "the voice of black America." He's a New Yorker, through and through. And yet the media elites act as if he was an elected representative of black America.
This Google employee is no different. How does he get to speak for all black Googlers? Who elected him? How many black employees at Google think he's correct, vs. paranoid and overly sensitive?
Show me an actual survey, and I'll open up on this. But this is anecdotal bullshit, just like the placating white hosts on news channels signaling their virtue by picking up the phone and bringing Sharpton on since they don't know normal, non-celebrity black people.
This is an article written by one person expressing their experiences. They aren't claiming to represent all black employees. You've created a straw man with your non-sequitur Sharpton comments.
It's kind of weird that you brought up "Al Sharpton". I've never heard anyone from the black community in the modern era cite All Sharpton, nor speak about him as "King of Black Folks".
We do this all the time, but would never accept a random white person to claim they represent all white people.
Al Sharpton knows nothing about the lives of black people where I grew up. He's never been there. My friends growing up were deeply resentful of his constant claim to be "the voice of black America." He's a New Yorker, through and through. And yet the media elites act as if he was an elected representative of black America.
This Google employee is no different. How does he get to speak for all black Googlers? Who elected him? How many black employees at Google think he's correct, vs. paranoid and overly sensitive?
Show me an actual survey, and I'll open up on this. But this is anecdotal bullshit, just like the placating white hosts on news channels signaling their virtue by picking up the phone and bringing Sharpton on since they don't know normal, non-celebrity black people.