{"id":2190,"date":"2020-06-05T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/linkedin-ceo-ryan-roslansky-slams-employees-appalling-comments-on-race\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:59:00","slug":"linkedin-ceo-ryan-roslansky-slams-employees-appalling-comments-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/linkedin-ceo-ryan-roslansky-slams-employees-appalling-comments-on-race\/","title":{"rendered":"#LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky slams employees\u2019 \u2018appalling\u2019 comments on race"},"content":{"rendered":"

“LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky slams employees\u2019 \u2018app<\/a>alling\u2019 comments on race<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky chastised his employees for airing \u201cappalling\u201d views on race during a virtual meeting on inequality that reportedly devolved into a \u201cdumpster fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roslansky apologized after some staffers at the buttoned-up social<\/a> network reportedly questioned concerns about police killing black people and likened corporate diversity to anti-white racism during a video town hall held in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The anonymous comments \u201creinforced the very hard work we still have to do,\u201d Roslansky said in a Thursday LinkedIn post. He indicated that the videoconferencing platform used to conduct the meeting prevented him from seeing the comments as they were posted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe require members on our platform to have real identities and we will not allow anonymous questions in all hands meetings in the future,\u201d Roslansky wrote. \u201cWe are not and will not be a company or platform where racism or hateful speech is allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roslansky\u2019s missive followed outrage from several LinkedIn employees who said the tone-deaf comments turned Wednesday\u2019s discussion on racial injustice into an \u201cepic fail,\u201d according to the Daily Beast, which first reported on the dustup.<\/p>\n

Several commenters suggested that LinkedIn\u2019s efforts to diversify its workforce amounted to discrimination against white people, the outlet reported. Some 47.5 percent of LinkedIn employees are white, 40.3 percent are Asian and just 3.5 percent are black, according to the company\u2019s most recent diversity report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears that I am a prisoner of my birth,\u201d one \u201cnon-minority\u201d commenter wrote, according to the Daily Beast. \u201cThis is not what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRacial prejudice is rampant in tech companies. As a white person, I\u2019ve experienced it from people of other races too,\u201d another employee reportedly said.<\/p>\n

Other commenters suggested that activists ignore police killings of white people and black-on-black crime, arguments often used to downplay concerns about police violence against black people, according to the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlacks kill blacks at 50 times the rate that whites kill blacks. Usually it is the result of gang violence in the inner city. Where is the outcry?\u201d one comment reportedly said.<\/p>\n

Other employees chimed in to condemn the comments, calling them racist and upsetting, the Daily Beast reported. One black staffer said the remarks \u201cabsolutely destroyed me,\u201d while another person said they \u201cdo not feel safe working at this company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roslansky tried to reassure his staff that LinkedIn was committed to stamping out racism. He noted that LinkedIn recently launched free online courses on diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of you shared the hardest part was realizing that this company we love and hold to such a high standard still has a lot of work to do to educate ourselves and our colleagues on how to create a culture that is truly anti-racist,\u201d Roslansky wrote. \u201cWe will do that work.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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