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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it’s uncomfortable, a distraction, and unpleasant. Which is exactly how your non-white/gay/whatever colleagues may well feel about the crap that they deal with every day in the workplace. [/quote]

But truly, what?? People are treated as people at my workplace. They don't deal with any crap that's different from the rest of us.[/quote]

If you are white and straight (or perceived of as such) you actually, truly have no idea what your colleagues that don’t present like you deal with [/quote]

This. I'm a white woman but married to a minority, which many of my colleagues don't know.  It's astounding the number of casual comments I hear that are discriminatory, slurs, or just plain rude because they don't think before they speak--and that's clearly what they think or feel or whatever.  [/quote]

Then why not have training that focuses more on real-life examples of these types of comments? Explain what crap your non-white/gay/whatever colleagues are dealing with in the workplace. For training to be worthwhile, there must be concrete examples and solutions that people can use, stated in language that everyone understands (not using terms that multiple groups define or understand differently).

What is the solution if punctuality and other professionalism standards privilege whiteness? Should everyone in the office come and go as they please? How do you develop or reconfigure personal and workplace standards to be more inclusive yet still meet the expectations and demands of clients or other stakeholders? My issue with much of this training and the scholarship is that simply pointing out problems without offering solutions has little impact.

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