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How does Invision's documentary "Design Disruptors" represent the design community when everyone featured is white?
8 years ago from Osandi Sekoú, founder | product design
Justin S., 8 years ago Think what I said was pretty self-explanatory. A.) Don't judge a documentary by it's trailer B.) Don't judge the diversity of a relatively new phenomenon; e.g., Startups. There was zero diversity in Hollywood for many years. Just takes time through popularity.
Mario Montoya, 8 years ago
It's just so dismissive and heartbreaking to see designers say that we should just wait and remain silent till diversity magically happens.
Maurice Cherry, 8 years ago
Agreed, Mario. It's heartbreaking, but sadly, not surprising.
Justin S., 8 years ago I think it's racist to hire someone for their race and not their talent and experience.
Justin S., 8 years ago When logic is too strong, giphy to the rescue.
Jake Lazaroff, 8 years ago It definitely is, but unfortunately this is already happening. White people are 50% more likely to get called back for an interview—in fact just having a white-sounding name is as valuable as 8 additional years of experience. Given that this isn't going to just go away, the best way anyone's come up with to fight it is making a special effort to hire people of color. Can you think of a better way?
Startups are not a new phenomenon.
Justin S., 8 years ago Startups are absolutely a new phenomenon. To say otherwise is pure ignorance. If you were born in the 80's, your parents nor your grandparents ever worked for companies that sprung out of nowhere based on a creative idea, disrupted the market and got seed funding. I work for a global startup and we have tons of diversity. Kids in high school are starting to get inspired and it's becoming more and more apart of our culture. Think you guys are just fixated on making it more than it is. Unless you can prove an intentional slight you're just feigning lazy activism.
Why are you so angry?
Justin S., 8 years ago Duh... It's because I'm white. All this energy conspiring to keep people down will wear you out after a while.
Jon L, 8 years ago
Thats not funny man.
Justin S., 8 years ago Ummm... It's not supposed to be funny, it's supposed to be facetious. I have an opinion therefore "I'm an angry white guy." Just a cheap way of shutting down conversations.
I gave a lot of thoughtful input... No one was game. Don't think any of you are half as serious about these issues as you think you are.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by that.
You had some 'thoughtful input' and then gave up in a cheap fashion? And then you turn around and say that no one is serious?
It must be nice to be able to give up on something that easily, thats not really a privilege that I've been afforded.
Justin S., 8 years ago Nice... You found a way to sneak in white privilege. Bravo... Took all of 2 interactions.
Casey Zumwalt, 8 years ago
I think it's more impressive that it took you absolutely zero "interactions" and/or attempts at thoughtful discussion to decide that the issue at hand is without merit. Congrats!
Justin S., 8 years ago I can't help that no one wanted to interact with the points I made... Social justice police have a tough time going off script.
You guys are on a witch hunt because a trailer of a documentary without actually watching the documentary. I hardly feel like the unreasonable one here.
Why did you change your name from "Justin Meyers" to "Justin S."?
Justin S., 8 years ago If I told you it would cease to be a conspiracy and you would have nothing else to get excited about.
What about this was dumb?