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I'm not white and based on my industry it seems harder to be white.

Honestly I'm not denying racism, but as I've told so many people who allege it matters, I just go and cry in my bank account.

I'm a tall white dude who's a lowly individual contributor and people have asked if I own the company.

I'm a tall brown man and people have asked me that too. In general, im quite social and extroverted and have gotten every job I've interviewed for. Even managed to get a job as a strategy consultant at bain and company despite realistically having no credentials. Sweet talking is a skill that crosses boundaries of melanin.

Some white people have this weird habit of assuming that good things happen because of their magical skin color. It's insufferable honestly. No one cares if you're a white guy who thinks he's so attractive / devilishly charming that people fawn over him. Lots of people have that experience. Goodness the self-aggrandizement knows no bounds

You seem to have made quite a lot of assumptions about me.

You seem to make many assumptions of the people that are confused as to your role in the company.

Actually I'm the one who's often confused - I've been told I "look like a tech company CEO" and I don't really know what that means. I can measure the objective stuff like height and skin color to come up with something, but at the end of the day I don't really know what a tech CEO is "supposed" to look like. The actual CEO of the tech company I work for is a Hispanic grandma, which I suspect is not the stereotype. If people knew I lived with my parents, they would probably stop thinking I'm much of a leader lol.

I'm not white and I don't find it awful at all working with white men.

White people in the workforce are probably the most inviting out of all races seeing that they are least likely to discriminate against other races. So I doubt your experience of the field being awful is at all related to the extent it is dominated by white men.

https://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=9002

Meh, as a non white person, I don't think about it much, if at all.

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