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Nope. But I don't know what you're getting at.

As a programmer, I just care that you write good code. In fact, I might as well be interacting with your mind across the internet, and don't even have to look at you in the face, and we will be collaborating just fine.

Why does it matter for someone who deals with 0's and 1's what the color of the skin of your coworker is? Once again, if you're a programmer and you're swimming in abstractions and code, my coworker might as well be a robot, and I could give two shits.

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It matters to them because people that push those PC nonsense are racists following the agenda as other people tell them to do.

For them their ideology comes first, and professionalism is only worth it when it can be applied to meet their political goals.

Never had problems working with people from all around the world, but if there is a bunch I would never consciously hire it is SJ activists.

Then we should hunt down this racist people, regardless of what their race is. It doesn't matter that the people doing this are white or whatever, what matters is that they're acting that way.

> Why does it matter for someone who deals with 0's and 1's what the color of the skin of your coworker is?

It seems crazy to me that someone would have to explain this on a public forum.If you are a white male I'm sure it might be hard for you to understand why race, gender, and class matter and how they intersect with your life, your work, and that of your colleagues.

Lets not deliberately ignore the point that was trying to be made. Its possible in this industry, to not even know the race or ethnicity of a coworker. That's a positive thing.

Lol. So true. I had a co-worker that I talked with several times a week about technical issues via HipChat for almost a year before I met him in person and the entire time I knew nothing about him other than he was a guy or identified as a guy and he was really good at his job (we have a few trans co-workers, so I don't assume cis-male). When I finally met him, it turns out that he was on the same floor about 50 meters away despite the fact that we're at a company with 1500 engineers spread across multiple offices.

NO IT FUCKING DOESN"T

STOP WITH THIS BULLSHIT

If you contribute to an open source product under then name 'anotherc', nobody cares if you are black, white, pink, male or female. All they will care about is the quality of your code

Likewise at work, all that people should care about is the quality of your work, and being respectful of others.

IF YOU THINK SOMEONES RACE MATTERS YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM

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