[ps4fanboy]

I see people lying all the time in life, about everything, then I read stories like this and they seem cringe and unreal with no reason to believe they are true. But there is this pressure to believe them because its about sexism or racism and we should take this story as true because skepticism is bad, I find it really difficult to resolve these feelings of distrust, human beings are just overall untrust worthy.

EDIT: I guess I broke the #ListenAndBelieve rule.

[Infinitesimus]

Of course you have no reason to believe anyone's story. Don't forget that the same thing was said about police brutality for decades until we started seeing more and more footage as evidence.

It's hard to imagine and even notice the racism and sexism that happens today if you're not on the receiving end of it, no doubt (not to make any guesses about your race or gender, of course).

Perhaps a relateable situation will be the denial and disbelief about CIA and NSA scandals until more information came out. Not saying believe everything you hear, but don't be so eager to dismiss a story merely because you do not see/know/experience what another part does.

[apalmer]

Your point is actually one hundred percent valid... I wouldn't be surprised if he was lying... but in this case he really isn't claiming that unusual a situation. Its not like he claimed dude came out in a grand dragon kkk robe and asked him to do a jig while eating watermelon... seems plenty of younger white people especially with all the hip hop radio songs saying it are truly perplexed why they aren't supposed to say terms they hear on the radio 50 times a day... Its only suprising that the interviewer delved into this the first time of meeting in a business setting...

[pastProlog]

I don't find it hard to believe. In most of the cases where someone said something inappropriate, it was at a mostly young startup that had some success and then hired some older, white, male executives.

At one company, a married black director, my boss, had hired a black woman as an assistant. A newly hired older white executive was asking around if she was hired because she was his side girlfriend.

At another company an executive went to a bar with one of the younger guys, and advised him to always hit on the "ethnic" women.

There's nothing new to what you're saying, plenty of white people in the U.S. south said there was no civil rights problem back in the 1950s and believed it. Most of those people thought some Jewish rabbi from 2000 years ago came back from the dead. People believe what they want to believe.

[ps4fanboy]

White men dont have a monopoly on racism.