What it's like to be a statistical super minority in tech

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> Imagine doing that to a black person. “Dude whaaat you’re black!? I know this other black person! Do you know them? Let me go get them, you two can talk about being black”

First of all, white people in America do actually do this, and (I'd imagine) it's as annoying and awful as it sounds. Second of all, it's not a great idea for white people in America to compare their "suffering" to that of blacks. African-Americans were enslaved for centuries here, brutalized in every way you can think of, basically treated as total subhumans until roughly 50 years ago and sometimes they still are.

So, yes, it's very stupid that people think you know everyone else from Slovenia. But maybe there is a better way to frame that.

I think his point is that people in the "progressive world' and tech scene are routinely being taught (rightly so) to NOT to treat minorities like this. But annoyingly, the same attitude doesn't exist towards people from Slovenia.

Comparing suffering in general is a terrible practice, as it literally looks at people as unequal.

I can only speak for my experience, but I’m sure it happens to all micro minorities. People don’t have those same reservations because their excitement at your uniqueness overrides their training about minorities.

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