{"id":3790,"date":"2014-01-16T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:09:39","slug":"programmer-privilege-as-an-asian-male-computer-science-major-everyone-gave-me-the-benefit-of-the-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/01\/16\/programmer-privilege-as-an-asian-male-computer-science-major-everyone-gave-me-the-benefit-of-the-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmer privilege: As an Asian male computer science major, everyone gave me the benefit of the doubt."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2014\/01\/programmer_privilege_as_an_asian_male_computer_science_major_everyone_gave.html\">Programmer privilege: As an Asian male computer science major, everyone gave me the benefit of the doubt.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\">&#8220;For every white or Asian male expert programmer you know, imagine a parallel universe where they were of another ethnicity and\/or gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yup. I was lucky enough to have a number of mentors who treated me as &#8220;equal&#8221;, but I also had more than a few who did not. (Those ones are a big part of the reason I had to quit my tenured job at UCalgary.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3790'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3790);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3790);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3790);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Programmer privilege: As an Asian male computer science major, everyone gave me the benefit of the doubt.. &#8220;For every white or Asian male expert programmer you know, imagine a parallel universe where they were of another ethnicity and\/or gender.&#8221; Yup. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/01\/16\/programmer-privilege-as-an-asian-male-computer-science-major-everyone-gave-me-the-benefit-of-the-doubt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,14,81,363],"tags":[388,394,6,135,47],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-general","category-information-technology","category-women","tag-academia","tag-bullying-mobbing","tag-computer-science","tag-computing-education","tag-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Z8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2107,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/02\/computer-literacy-does-knowing-how-to-drive-understanding-cars\/","url_meta":{"origin":3790,"position":0},"title":"Computer Literacy: Does knowing how to drive = understanding cars?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course not. 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