The new hire appears to have been hired just purely because of the colour of his skin - apparently because of a diversity initiative. That strikes me as racist because it implies that they've never hired any non-white engineers due to their performance without addressing the inherent bias in the system that would only hire white engineers even when more qualified engineers of different ethnic backgrounds are available.
There's also the dig at people who wish to be known by certain pronouns/titles/names (e.g. "Ted" Cruz)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+One+joke
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/05/03/dilbert...
Provocative, yes. Can someone ELI5 for me why this is racist?
I read it as mostly anti-trans (or at the very least, anti-"you pick your pronouns").
The new hire appears to have been hired just purely because of the colour of his skin - apparently because of a diversity initiative. That strikes me as racist because it implies that they've never hired any non-white engineers due to their performance without addressing the inherent bias in the system that would only hire white engineers even when more qualified engineers of different ethnic backgrounds are available.
There's also the dig at people who wish to be known by certain pronouns/titles/names (e.g. "Ted" Cruz)
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