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"If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it," [ESPN reporter Rachel] Nichols said in the recording. "Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away."
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I don't know that I would leave a job that I liked over finding out that a coworker was a jackass, but perhaps that's because I'm of the opinion that not having any jackasses among one's coworkers is too much to ask for.

But more to the point, this illustrates the difficulties that the United States is going to have with reaching a broadly equitable society; people who are desperate to hold on to what they have, especially when they themselves might phrase it "what little they have," see sharing with others as an unjustified imposition. And so even when people understand that others have been denied opportunities or the like, their concerns about holding on to what they have push them to ensure that whatever the costs of equity, someone else needs to pay them.

For all that the United States is touted as being the wealthiest nation on Earth, Americans have a remarkable skill at seeing themselves as impoverished, even when they are relatively well off, since the only valid subjects for comparison tend to be those who are higher up on the income, wealth of status ladder than oneself. And this is going to be the biggest impediment to change.