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		potatolicious on Nov 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Other Side of Diversity > "but you just can't be 100% quirks and doodads at work." Being black is "quirks and doodads" now?

lsaferite on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Here, let me help you out: > As a bipolar engineer, seeing this maxim put into words really felt like lifting a weight off my shoulders. It's like, why should we have to "sell" ourselves to the majority in order to maintain a job? It's 2014, not 1914, we should be included regardless.

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