> Industry Layoffs Are Hitting Black And Brown Workers Hardest
Pardon the tangent, but I've always thought "brown" was a derogatory term. Is it not?
Pardon the tangent, but I've always thought "brown" was a derogatory term. Is it not?
I’m not sure that brown people are underrepresented in tech or that these layoffs hit them harder.
In fact, the article doesn’t share any data that the layoffs hit black people more than any other so if they are underrepresented in tech companies at only 7%, doesn’t that mean they would also be underrepresented in layoffs? So there are actually fewer impacted by these layoffs than non-black.
In the US, black is a race so I think I understand the usage. But not sure what brown means unless it’s some offensive term for Latino. I don’t really think that people who have brown skin share many socioeconomic characteristics as they are many different races and ethnicities and cultures.
Just about anyone living close to the equator is going to be at least brown in skin tone.
I've only seen this term used to lump all these people together and deem them insignificant.
Used to discriminate or say something bad, ex: “<this color skin people> are annoying“, of course it’d be derogatory.
For this headline, it’s trying to capture the right small group(s) of people affected by layoffs - ok!
Any any term can be perceived as derogatory depending on the mindset of the hearer.