Why is this so true and so known? Agencies are only giving lip service to this, but not taking real action. So what advice do you have for people struggling with this day in and day out?

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@SD why is it always the burden of the receiver of the biased treatment to educate and fix the problem that they didn’t create?

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@Senior copywriter 1 I saw it as a playbook for dismantling a systemic bias, in RBG’s case gender bias. The way she thought about winning the war with a series of coordinated and tactical battles that didn’t all centre around women’s rights, but around things that the existing power structure (men) could get behind and understand. She knew that they’d be outraged by a single father being denied welfare so she used that to establish precedent. She framed issues in ways men could comprehend and empathize with. I think there are some interesting parallels there.

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It’s hard because so much of the burden to educate or fix a bad situation falls on the impacted group and that takes away energy and time. But at the same time - who better to lead than those affected? Even though it’s not my job to educate everyone, I carefully consider most opportunities to do so.

TLDR; When I feel too exhausted to educate, I allow myself to step back and do the self care thing. When I have an opportunity to educate though, I take it if I can. It’s a power move and I feel that I on an individual level can decide what feels right to take on in context.

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I am non-American white woman, excelling at my skills but also pushing for accountability, and this depicts exactly what I'm experiencing as well. Microagression is well known tool used to push people out. Looks better on their books if you're the one that leaves. The "old ways" stay in place and "problem" is eliminated. Hang in there if you can, stand your ground, and don't quit. I hope we can find some solutions here, together, on how to proceed at this point...

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actually in this loop now 😑

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Watch the RBG documentary. I felt it was a good lesson for how to systematically dismantle bias.

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It definitely sucks..

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👩🏽‍🎨 Super Facts. This feeling is too real.

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@MM1 - I think SD1 was responding to my q about what are the people being impacted supposed to do? I wish it wasn’t the impacted person’s burden to fix it, and I agree - it shouldn’t be. But since I can’t make the agency or leader change their ways, I can only take steps to minimize the personal impact of their ways.

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I definitely experienced this at Reprise Media!

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Strategy Director what points from the RBG doc do you feel addressed dismantling racism? I watched it and didn't have the same takeaway.

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What's up guys

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Do you have to know some within AmerisourceBergen to work for them? I feel like I have tried 5 times to work for them and nothing has happened.

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Hi friends,

I'm a new joinee in MSFT.

People in my team they don't come with me for breaks. (They blame the timings are different since they sit in crits but i don't think so because they have their own group of friends to go with)

Secondly, when my team members see me in cafeteria we expect they'll sit with us but people here are being rude they directly go and sit with their friends they don't call you to join. ( atleast they could have said they are accompanied)

People behave unpleasant

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I have resigned from EY GDS on the e-exit portal a few days back. What are the next steps that I need to do.
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Who else feels like we could have had an Iowa caucus spreadsheet done by now? 🙋‍♂️

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Partner 🐡: How much of the work related stuff posted in here provides you meaningful insight vs. comes across as unfounded griping?

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Senior to Manager-level Data Scientists, what is the minimum set of skills and experience you require someone to have in order to train them to be a Data Scientist?

I have a handful of people from BI and Marketing who want to learn how to be a "Data Scientist" where some of them have stronger SQL knowledge and ability than others, but some of them have more exposure to languages like Python and R, and a little bit of machine learning exposure.

Appreciate the input in advance.

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What’s the background of most product managers you’ve come across? Is it engineering, consulting, strategy, etc.? I’ve never met anyone who started their career as a PM and I’m curious how to get in it?

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Any insights on Elevated Third?

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I notice that your “visual identity” for this workshop represents different sexes and different cultures - but no older people - who are now bearing the brunt of ageism. Why have we been left out?

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Thinking about the NFL today and that I really don't want to work on anything connected to football. Given how dangerous we know this sport is I don't feel right supporting it. (Continued in comments)

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As someone who isn't a PoC I'm always unsure of how I should refer to others correctly. First question:

African American vs Black - what is more accepted?

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Does anyone have experience confronting workplace inequality? Any lawyer recommendations? Things to say/not say?

I don’t trust HR and I don’t know what to do.

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check out the Black in advertising bowl
https://joinfishbowl.com/bowl_t6agpu .
I saw a ton of job postings in there, might be a good place to post any positions we hear about.

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Nadia, your Unconscious Bias training was so incredibly impactful for me and my team!! Brilliant. So stoked to see this crucial conversation on here. So many questions!

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I am a POC and just recently got pushed out of my new role. They told me I wasn't a good fit and failed to meet job requirements. Struggling to understand whether I was let go bc of my work ethic or

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I’m sad that instead of showing that there are no differences between human beings, we are advocating for races (what I understand it is very necessary). Just afraid that will create more division.

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How do you deal with culture of fear, where things are not reported or addressed in fear of retaliation?

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Does anyone have any useful articles, tweets, insta posts that I could send people when they say “if I can’t say that then what CAN I say, everything is offensive.” I’m tired.

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Hosting a multicultural media mixer this Tuesday, Dec. 11 from 6-8pm in NYC. Essence, InStyle, BuzzFeed, CNBC and more will be in attendance. If you work for a media outlet, comment below.

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Is there a Latinos in advertising bowl?!

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As someone who isn't a PoC I'm always unsure of how I should refer to others correctly. 2nd question:

If referring to the only minority on another team is saying "the Asian/black/etc" guy offensive?

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Day 1 of Glenn Singleton's Courageous Conversations About Race training today actually rocked my world. So many things I've never talked about or even considered talking about just bubbled up. 😱

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We are a small shop of 10 and are sorely lacking any people of color on our team. How do we recruit interest without coming right out and asking for POC to apply?

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Mcgarrybowen San Francisco? Any thoughts?

Hi Nadia thank you for doing this workshop my question is: how do you deal with raging systemic bias and not get victimised by your line manager who is also a group head ?

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Hi, Nadia!:) What's your perspective on white fragility? I'm a white immigrant who grew up shielded from racism in a homogeneous society and want to help white people deal with their fragility but...

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