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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, don’t be the white lady who weaponizes her tears when accused of racial bias. It’s tiresome.

Use this as an opportunity to reflect. Yes, she misheard you. I’m sure you had no ill intent, but intent is separate from impact. Let’s look at the facts— you prioritized the words of a white man over the LEAD AUTHOR of the paper. The lead author who is 1) a woman and 2) a POC. It’s a bad look, OP. As a marketing professional, if this never occurred to you when writing the piece, then that is a pretty huge blind spot. Stop crying and being defensive. Be a grown up and own up to your mistake here and use it as a growth opportunity. [/quote]

+1000

Even if the lead author wasn't a woman of color, not representing the LEAD AUTHOR in the piece was a big misstep.  Even if the lead author had been a soft spoken white man this would be a problem.  Some people (of all races) have different styles - may not be as immediately quotable off the cuff. A follow-up email or interview, or whatever was needed to make it a more balanced pieces seems like it would have been a good idea.

OP should learn from this. [/quote]

OP said they were described to her as co-autho[b]rs.  I don't know enough about that space to know if OP had a responsibility to figure out who was who, but she didn't know the woman was the lead author.  [/b]

But I do agree that this is a learning experience.  Your mistake was that you let the white man do all the talking and get all the quotes.[/quote]

If she’s worked in academia more that five minutes she’d know that is a major, major distinction and I hope she has an email somewhere explicitly saying “co-author” otherwise that is probably some racial bias. [/quote]

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