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It's sort of tangential, but knowing anything I write can be found by Googling my real name has certainly made me write defensively. It's why my main Twitter account is not public.
Which is one reason many people prefer anonymity and pseudonyms!
Nothing about me can be found by Googling my real name. As far as the internet is concerned - I don't actually exist.
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It sounds like you're saying it's fine to be racist against whites, but offensive to do the same thing to your personal "in-group." Little ironic, lol.
You're doing the exact thing that WalterBright complained about above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859674 ). Of course that is not what the poster meant.
He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I've met people like him at work. Overly sensitive people is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
I feel compelled to write about race issues because I am a person of color. The issues directly impact my life. But I'm afraid because readers might be pissed off enough to get me fired. :/
When that happens, most of us respond with empathy and because we understand, support and activism to make it better and have one another's backs.
Progress happens, and things get better. I believe in all of that deeply. I've paid hard to stand for it too. More than once.
Some of us respond with rage, hate, and all manner of emotions, and that sucks. It's not like any of us actually picks these things, so how does it make any real sense to be held to account for them? (Color, gender, gay, etc...)
It is, like you say, a contact sport with very real implications for us all. To me, that contact is good. It helps to understand others and it can help to keep the worst in check for fear of consequences too.
But there is a lot of difficulty in that quiet response one just can't quite pin down... fired one day, for example.
I'm an ordinary white guy, and I've had this sort of thing happen when I've gone to bat for someone who needed it.
Making things better is expensive in this way, and I'm not entirely sure we can avoid it. We may blunt it some, but people remain exposed all the same.
I understand your fear. It has a real basis and all of us must weigh these things. At some points in life, maybe we can take the hit. At others, it may cost too much.
I don't have answers, other than to say there are a lot of us who get it.
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You're doing the exact thing that WalterBright complained about above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859674 ). Of course that is not what the poster meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I've met people like him at work. Overly sensitive people is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
I mean, I think you buy into and identify with a concept that is explicitly, by definition anti-white..
Is that not racist?
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>This is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
Because everyone needs to agree with you about them 100%?
In regards to hedges and weasel words: I never used more weasel words and hedges than when I sold computers at Circuit City. I knew what the policies should be and how we should be able to help customers, but I had no power to actually make that happen so I used tons of should, may, probably, likely, etc. I hated it and it took me a while to unlearn that way of talking.
I feel compelled to write about race issues because I am a person of color. The issues directly impact my life. But I'm afraid because readers might be pissed off enough to get me fired. :/
Colored person here as well. I'd advise you to discuss these matters under an assumed name. Discussing them on a public forum (such as a company blog) is generally a bad idea (if you want to keep your job). Of course you can go full militant but you have to understand the risks. Personally, I need to pay the bills right now, but as soon as I accumulate some F * U money, it's on :)
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It sounds like you're saying it's fine to be racist against whites, but offensive to do the same thing to your personal "in-group." Little ironic, lol.
You're doing the exact thing that WalterBright complained about above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859674 ). Of course that is not what the poster meant.
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Yes, I am a person of color. The dictionary definition of people of color is any non whites. Edit: There is a long explanation of why Asians are sometimes excluded. The short answer is racism against Asians.
It sounds like you're saying it's fine to be racist against whites, but offensive to do the same thing to your personal "in-group." Little ironic, lol.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I've met people like him at work. Overly sensitive people is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
>He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I mean, I think you buy into and identify with a concept that is explicitly, by definition anti-white.. Is that not racist? -- >This is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues. Because everyone needs to agree with you about them 100%?
One of the common methods people use to attack posts with ideas they don't agree with is to take the prose literally. This is much like the "work to rule" form of protest that unions use, and the "letter of the law" rather than the spirit of it, and of course all those "zero tolerance" policies.
For which the Principle Of Charity was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity