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throwit542

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    Comment #13293678

    White/middle class kids aren't magic pixie dust that you can just sprinkle on schools to make them better. https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/middle-class-ki...

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    Comment #13107723

    I was bullied as a kid for being a science nerd and now I am lectured for the "privilege" of having had those experiences by the same crowd of people who perpetrated them. I get it…

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    Comment #10283664

    Frankly, I agree with you and I exercise regularly. But I find it hard to interpret the snide comments in this article (or in many others) as honest health recommendations and not …

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    Comment #10283567

    "All of the competitors—and this will come as a shock—are men, or at least on their way to becoming men. They’re not the healthiest-looking bunch, with an average weight that appea…

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    Comment #10208789

    If you read my post more closely, I wasn't talking about white men, but white people. It's pretty clear that the facts show that women are underrepresented in tech.

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    Comment #10208777

    >Your argument is using some old data and substantially flawed reasoning and I'll let other people talk about it If I'm not mistaken, all of those sources are from 2015. You seem t…

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    Comment #10208590

    White men are over represented at large tech companies? White people make up around 80% of the U.S. population [0]. They make up less than 60% of tech workers at Google[1] and less…

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    Comment #9907883

    You're talking about the U.S. educational system leaving men behind, right? Because in America, women are more likely to graduate high school [0], enroll in college [1], graduate f…

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    Comment #9795086

    Eh, I've got a radical theory for why women don't sign up to take computer science classes. It's because they don't want to be nerds. Can you imagine what their sorority sisters wo…