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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.
From my view, race seems arbitrary. You could also split people into blue-eyed and brown-eyed or something.
You could pick any societal construct or experience and say it doesn't matter to you. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
You could say money is just paper and ones and zeros in a database so you shouldn't have to use it but you are deluding yourself.
Programmers are abstract thinkers, and it's disgusting to see them lower themselves and adopt the semantics and memes of obvious cultural constructs like race.
You have to be joking. This is sarcasm, right?