But, you see, the other white men are just “a better fit” with the “culture of the workplace.”

If you control for class, the racial component is a prime mover. Maybe you don’t recognize the benefits you got due to your skin because you only have your own experience to go by and you don’t see yourself as having had it easy. I also grew up a poor white child and was always a minority in school, but I got a lot…

you still had an advantage over a poor black person, can you not see that?

I don’t know that I buy “equally qualified” as a thing that really exists...unless this friend’s daughter and the other candidate have had the exact same life experiences.

Well, if race did not exist and did not have the social implications it does in this country, then nepotism wouldn’t be a race issue. But as it stands, even poor white people are more likely to have wealthy social connections than people of color—because white people, as a whole, have tons more social and financial…

Tell that to a Tibetan trying to get a job.

Nope, not limited to a racial issue, but it is often a racial issue. If more white people are employed than any other race, more white people are decision makers about hiring, and most white people don’t have any Black, Latino, 1st Nations, or Asian friends or family... it’s an unfair advantage for white people.

Sure...

No they aren’t because nepotism is how history doubles down on itself even when legal systems shift. For example: segregation ensured the most powerful workplaces were filled with white people a generation ago - nepotism ensures that disproportionate advantage continues in this generation, while becoming more…

It is easier to gain work through personal connection. People tend to have personal connections with those ‘like’ them—particularly when it comes to race. It is a very segregated world/country. Thereby, white people (and particularly men) have an easier time finding gainful employment, getting promoted, being…

No, we are not all in the same position. A qualified white woman with no connections at least has whiteness. A qualified white male with no connections has whiteness and maleness. So no, it’s not limited to a racial issue, but the racial component is quite a large one.

But nepotism mostly benifits white dudes and then white women, the rest aren’t even close.

White people: “doesn’t look like anything to me”

I love his implication that she can’t talk about how Putin executes journalists without bias because she’s a journalist. Who CAN, then?!

“Young lady who do you think you are? I am a white male born in these United States and argle-bargledy-boop!!!!”