I've been managed by 4 Indians (as a white guy) over 13 years in my career and have had zero issues.
It's weird that people are so blatantly racist towards Indians in these conversations, especially when the charges (and I say charges even though there is nothing more than anecdotes to support them) are essentially the same "ole boys club" of hiring connected white guys that we've been fine with for the past 200 years.
And these biases are what DEI was supposed to try and fix, but now everyone has turned sour on that for whatever reason too. So I guess we'll just complain.
And that’s the problem with DEI if embraced and fully adopted, it would force the people who benefited from nepotism or say legacy admissions to really test out those bootstraps they carry on about and there’s a lot of people would find out it wasn’t all individual exceptionalism that got them there.
Culturally Americans have been brainwashed on individual exceptionalism so that rich folks don’t have to give back and the poors can fight over the illusion of meritocracy. It’s really about who can do a good enough job for the cheapest cost to drive profits and now the country has dove headfirst into a race to the bottom (well in terms of worker conditions)
The issue with DEI from some of these people is that it didn't extend to white people, not that the problem itself was anti-meritocratic. They want DEI but for white people lol.
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u/hoopaholik91 1d ago
I've been managed by 4 Indians (as a white guy) over 13 years in my career and have had zero issues.
It's weird that people are so blatantly racist towards Indians in these conversations, especially when the charges (and I say charges even though there is nothing more than anecdotes to support them) are essentially the same "ole boys club" of hiring connected white guys that we've been fine with for the past 200 years.
And these biases are what DEI was supposed to try and fix, but now everyone has turned sour on that for whatever reason too. So I guess we'll just complain.