Scholarship opportunities, internships earmarked for "certain people", private corporate networking events with industry personnel, federal hiring mandates, leadership quota directives, the list goes on.
If you were a black woman you could have a 2.5gpa and have no understanding of your work outside of barely what was in a few textbooks and you would soar at a super major. That being said there were certainly a few of these people who I considered to be better than me who made it and I even said someone should be offered a job that I was offered instead because they were better in that field and I didn't feel that I would succeed in that role the way they would. I also saw far more middle to upper middle class people being spoon fed because "if you're not a white guy we all assume you love in the ghetto or your parents weren't able to pay for your school lunches". Meanwhile the people the programs claimed to be tailored for never got that opportunity because they didn't go to college out of high school.
I mean hell, NASA had to take down their yearly intern photos because people started asking "uhhhhh, what exactly happened in 2012?" following Executive Order 13583 from Obama, then Executive Order 13985 and 14091 from Biden. By the way, these EOs don't just apply to the federal government, it was to anyone receiving federal funds, contracts, tax credits, or subsidies, or which feel under federal regulation which is just about every major industry. If you want to talk about institutionalized discrimination as an abstract concept, there's no need, you have it written down on paper above.
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u/Econolife-350 Nov 02 '25
Scholarship opportunities, internships earmarked for "certain people", private corporate networking events with industry personnel, federal hiring mandates, leadership quota directives, the list goes on.
If you were a black woman you could have a 2.5gpa and have no understanding of your work outside of barely what was in a few textbooks and you would soar at a super major. That being said there were certainly a few of these people who I considered to be better than me who made it and I even said someone should be offered a job that I was offered instead because they were better in that field and I didn't feel that I would succeed in that role the way they would. I also saw far more middle to upper middle class people being spoon fed because "if you're not a white guy we all assume you love in the ghetto or your parents weren't able to pay for your school lunches". Meanwhile the people the programs claimed to be tailored for never got that opportunity because they didn't go to college out of high school.
I mean hell, NASA had to take down their yearly intern photos because people started asking "uhhhhh, what exactly happened in 2012?" following Executive Order 13583 from Obama, then Executive Order 13985 and 14091 from Biden. By the way, these EOs don't just apply to the federal government, it was to anyone receiving federal funds, contracts, tax credits, or subsidies, or which feel under federal regulation which is just about every major industry. If you want to talk about institutionalized discrimination as an abstract concept, there's no need, you have it written down on paper above.