> Is paying attention and acting on microaggressions and unconscious biases part of the culture?
So this is a woke culture test.
The conservative or libertarian half of developers are excluded.
So this is a woke culture test.
The conservative or libertarian half of developers are excluded.
I very much agree with that.
But the woke have no interest in exploring that. They already "know" the bias everyone has. It's part of their belief system, and not open for debate or reflection.
I understood this as aggresion and bias with regards to work-related technical discussions, for example ignoring or talking over people in a video call who suggest taking a deeper code dive when debugging, or saying "no, I disagree, you are wrong" on a technical point without saying why or making any effort, or starting a call by dropping f-bombs, or shouting "but the code is the documentation!!" when someone politely suggests that issue comments by a library author are also worth paying attention to when trying to understand the meaning of a rabbit's hole of code call chains... especially where these people are from different teams or companies with different incentives.
These are just recent examples of aggression and bias in a technical context that I have personally witnessed.
It might even be part of what the writer means.
But by using leftist sectarian language they send a strong signal that people like me are not welcome to work in their team.