Fair point. Upvote in karma. My comment wasn’t meant to insinuate that the EAs who downvoted would want EA to continue to be a white majority, but that the down votes could demonstrate how they disliked the truth of disparities my comment was stating and how it might’ve made them uncomfortable.
I think the Magnifying Mentor is a great program and am very pleased to have just found out it exists. But it’s meant for women, non-binary, and transgender people. Not people of color. My comments weren’t about gender or sex, although those are disparities that we should aim to lessen.
I did notice a woman at EAG tell her friend of the “20:3” ratio at a workshop. It was also this comment that made me realize how I was the only Hispanic in all the EAG events I attended until my second to last event on Sunday. In fact, Jordan’s reminder of the discrepancy in race and ethnicity was what caused me to make my comments. This is not me putting the blame on him or her. I have bad experiences with Caucasian EAs comments and “solutions” to racial and ethnic disparities and race relation issues.
I apologize for my snarky reaction and miscommunication and will keep it on the thread as a reminder to myself and others as not how to respond.
Fair point. Upvote in karma. My comment wasn’t meant to insinuate that the EAs who downvoted would want EA to continue to be a white majority, but that the down votes could demonstrate how they disliked the truth of disparities my comment was stating and how it might’ve made them uncomfortable.
I think the Magnifying Mentor is a great program and am very pleased to have just found out it exists. But it’s meant for women, non-binary, and transgender people. Not people of color. My comments weren’t about gender or sex, although those are disparities that we should aim to lessen.
I did notice a woman at EAG tell her friend of the “20:3” ratio at a workshop. It was also this comment that made me realize how I was the only Hispanic in all the EAG events I attended until my second to last event on Sunday. In fact, Jordan’s reminder of the discrepancy in race and ethnicity was what caused me to make my comments. This is not me putting the blame on him or her. I have bad experiences with Caucasian EAs comments and “solutions” to racial and ethnic disparities and race relation issues.
I apologize for my snarky reaction and miscommunication and will keep it on the thread as a reminder to myself and others as not how to respond.
I appreciate the constructive criticism, Max.