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>Meritocracy beliefs have been considered "white supremicist rhetoric" in many programming circles for some time now.

I've read this before and when I asked for examples, all of the examples given involved either people who were kicked out of open source projects for being huge dickheads or companies who held recruiting events at historically black colleges and universities being called woke.

Do you have any examples of meritocracy beliefs being considered "white supremacist rhetoric"?

BTW you spelled supremacist wrong. I'm curious about what browser/operating system combination did not highlight the misspelling.






Not the same person but there's no spellchecker for me when I type in the reply box. I'm on Firefox and Windows 11.

Screenshot: https://v1.imgpaste.net/images/public/1564a772-9648-4540-88d...




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