Poc

As a minority/POC, it does not affect me at all with the words "master" or "slave". To me what helps to solve racism is to show transparency with their process/company. For example, publish the salary differences of the "Same Position" of different races. Heck, publish everyone's salaries. i am tired of finding out my coworker of a different race gets paid more than me for the same work. Like I can understand like 10% difference but not more than 35%. Anecdotally i have heard this from several POCs but I can never know for sure until the companies provide the info. Or one action is to completely anonymize the resumes and applications. I personally have tested one of the popular studies where "latino names" gets fewer callbacks than "white names" and I was so surprised that it worked for myself too. Heck even my university completely anonymize my assignments and exams in order to prevent bias from grading. Why can't we do the same in jobs. Sorry i just wanted to rant. I am just tired of companies getting praised for "linguistic changes" and not calling them out for not doing actual company changes. I apologize if this is going against the rules but I just wanted to share my thoughts as a POC. EDIT: Wow this blew up. I am so glad that we are having this discussion. Just wanted to add some following points. When i said that I am not bothered by the words "Slave or master" I do not mean that all POCs don't mind that. This was just a personal rant. I do not want to define what POCs want. And yes removing the slave or master is great and I am not particulary against it to be honest I am pretty indifferent to it. What I am specifically against that people will claim that these linguistic changes WILL LEAD to change. In my opinion, this will stop further changes because the corporations will think that they have done enough because the public opinion is happy about it. That is where I am frustrated on.