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LordBurleighSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:07pm
Every time someone in Sillicon Valley types the word “disrupt,” their computer should explode.
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  MandarintenLordBurleigh
  9/22/15 6:09pm
  I agree.... I see that word commonly associated with over priced hoodies and mail order shaving kits these days..
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  rusholmeruffianLordBurleigh
  9/22/15 6:13pm
  ALWAYS
  BE
  DISRUPTING
  
  PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for disruptors.
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XyloSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:09pm
Oh fuck, I get this every day as a medical transcriptionist. 20-something prissy-snot doctors or medical students, labouring over the name of a patient or another doctor with an “exotic” name, I usually just yell out something like “SIVICHANDRAN! WHAT COULD BE EASIER?”
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  ToheroaXylo
  9/22/15 6:29pm
  “Help! This person has a name, and I’m being forced to think about it! In a moment, I’ll have to recognize that they are a valid human being!”
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  FoxyJXylo
  9/22/15 6:43pm
  I know what you mean, it drives me nuts when people “can’t” read names like the example you give that are completely fucking phonetic. People that you KNOW know how to read, it’s like good lord just sound it out and say it. I worked with some hillbillies in an industry with an increasing non-Anglo-named presence, and they would do they same thing with me where they would pretend they couldn’t say like a five-letter name of one of our clients until I screamed it at them. And then, I shit you not, I would get a dirty look for daring to know such a thing.
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╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:11pm
Let’s switch it up from racial and gender discrimination and ask: isn’t that guy too old to be in the tech industry? I don’t care how cool his jacket is, or if he’s wearing some nice Bonobos—he’s got visible wrinkles and is obviously unqualified.
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  HypnoCat╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
  9/22/15 6:14pm
  Ageist! Ageist! Ageeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiisttttttttttt!
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  Kyon-Theorist╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
  9/22/15 6:20pm
  To be fair, that actually happens too unless you are high upper management at these places.
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SrynersonSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:58pm
Not only does John Doerr, man in charge, think that “diverse” is something a person can be (rather than a contextual situation)

Sorry, but this is extremely common phrasing in recruiting, HR, etc., these days, so it seems rather ridiculous to get worked up over it. (E.g., “We are looking to increase our hires of diverse associates in 2016,” etc.) It’s a cutesy way to avoid saying “non-white,” “minority,” etc. See also “non-traditional.” (E.g., “We are recruiting for non-traditional laterals in all markets, please send candidates’ CVs to Partner J. Smith in the Boston office.”) The name pronunciation thing though was kind of a jerk move though.
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gramercypoliceSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:20pm
The other new colleague’s unpronounceable name that sounded so foreign to Doerr is: “Angela”.
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  caekislove-caekingitupgramercypolice
  9/22/15 7:10pm
  That joke is too good for Gawker.
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  gramercypolicecaekislove-caekingitup
  9/22/15 7:15pm
  Thanks. Not sure that’s true, but In hindsight, I think it could’ve been constructed to be a little less opaque. I might should’ve used “Mary” instead.
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gramercypoliceSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:29pm
Wha? It was a joke? Hahahaha! Now that's funny!

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  Sia's Oversized Wiggramercypolice
  9/22/15 6:38pm
  Why is it that every time a white person says something rude its always “It was a joke that landed badly” or “I meant it as a joke, and I’m sorry it offended you” —- No one is looking to a ceo for comedy. Seriously, stop joking.
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  evilengineergramercypolice
  9/22/15 6:48pm
  >.> ok how are those names spelled with accent marks.
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borgohurisSam Biddle
9/22/15 9:17pm
Friends, my apologies. It was an unfortunate joke that was not funny. I have deep respect for my partners Swati and Muzzammil.

No, duh. Obviously you said that for the white laughs but it doesn’t make it any less inappropriate and stupid. Why does he think it is a time to make jokes when the topic of diversity is brought up which is a serious and real issue in his industry? I don’t know but maybe the fact that influencers like him not taking it seriously could be a part of the problem. Just throwing that out there...I mean for fuckssake he has vast funds and resources at his finger tips to research the topic which makes his lack of knowledge and gives no fucks all the more apparent through his chuckle fuck routine!
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Armageddon T. ThunderbirdSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:10pm
You can’t be the boss without understanding the merits of giving everyone a nickname, slappynuts.
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MizJenkinsSam Biddle
9/22/15 6:18pm
“Tyrone Washington” isn’t hard to pronounce. So...
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browniesaregoodSam Biddle
9/22/15 8:47pm
One of my favorite quotes from Uzo Aduba:

“...in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”
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