‘You Can’t Code Your Way Out of Racism’

27 Sep ‘You Can’t Code Your Way Out of Racism’

This week, we meet for breakfast to talk through our conflicting feelings about the new film “When the Bough Breaks,” the No. 2 movie in America. Jenna loved it; Wesley not so much.

We also decode the inherent racism of the sharing economy. Airbnb recently issued a report about how they plan to fight discrimination on the site. One of the proposed solutions is to make the avatar photos of housing-seekers smaller, making it harder to discriminate.

Um, what?

“I’ve got to be honest with you,” Wesley tells Jenna on the show. “If AirbnB wants to make the avatars smaller, make mine twice as big! If you don’t want me staying in your house, don’t front like you’re happy to have me.”

“This moment of reckoning is bigger than has ever happened before with the whole tech wave,” Jenna says. “The fact that we have these founders that want to be woke,” Jenna says, is a big step in the right direction.

But even with that awareness, she says, the fact remains: “You can’t code yourself out of racism.”

We also bring in the dance writer Shanti Crawford to review the moves we watched at the United States Open.
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